UCSHealthMonitorInnovationDetails

TESTIMONIALS

Bhaskar

Senior Director, Cisco Systems

(Development Engineering )

Pavan, Thanks for the initiative in building this very useful utility. When we ran into the issues right after ElCapitan MR1 CCO posting multiple cores were reported in multiple systems. In the course of the attempt to reproduce it, some QA folks reported another set of cores (turned out to be unrelated & a known issue). If we had to manually go through each of these cores, it would have taken us a much longer time to classify the observed issues. This tool, with bare minimum configuration (IP/credentials), pulled out the cores, ran it through Universal Core Debugger and presented the stack trace in a user friendlyfashion. We could immediately classify the cores into 2 distinct issues – one known and the other that had to be investigated. After that it was just a matter of minutes to narrow down the root cause. Amongst other things, I hear that you built the tool on your own volition. Always glad to see initiatives like this coming from engineers – and even better when it is from an engineer who joined us from college about 2 years ago. I can think of good uses for this tool – including hooking up all QA systems so that a core never goes unobserved. Along with the log exporter support that was added recently in UCSM, we should be able to narrow down more cores.

I particularly like the integrations – UCD and the ability to file defects straight from the tool. It helps improve the productivity of many.

Appreciate the initiative & thanks again.

– bhaskar

Yogesha Senior Manager

(Test Engineering)

Dear PAVAN KUMAR GONDHI, Would like to recognize your relentless self-initiated effort to take UCS Health Monitor to new level with easy to use CDETS integration which saves defect submitter time from ~1hr to couple of minutes. Appreciate your passion for proactively getting UCD fixed for supporting UCS Mini & in turn integrating that with UCS Health Monitor. Also your tool usage simply helped to reproduce Malibu’s softlock up issue. Great accolades by Dev as well Program Management team for nature of the idea & simplicity of the tool while providing extensive help to debug/report defects easily. Continue your passion to take UCS Health Monitor further levels.

From Yogesha MG

Dear PAVAN KUMAR GONDHI,

This award is to recognize your efforts to develop UCS HealthMonitor

1. Very innovative tool which will resolve daily pains of QA & eases the way the job is done.

2. This is in addition to your day to day deliverable, very focused effort to demo to various teams, collect feedback…accommodate suggestions

3. The tool liked by teams across the BU(India, SJ teams)

4. Many folks asking to expand the support different platforms.

Great job, keep innovation engine moving…..Continue to drive this tool to greater heights, relieve/ease QA community’s daily challenges across.

From Yogesha MG

Qing Senior Manager, Cisco Systems

(Test Engineering)

Thank you so much, Pavan. The slides are very detail and great summarization of all the technologies behind this effort. I think last connected recognition amount is not enough with so much effort went behind. Like Bhaskar said, amazing job done by a two years college grad. Really appreciate your effort.

You did an excellent job here. Can you extend the support to UCS-Central?

Thanks for your innovation and this tool will help QA effort tremendously.

Qing

Rajesh Technical Lead, Cisco Systems

(Technical Marketing Engineering)

Recognition award – Entire tool is done in such a neat way and structured as if it came out of a proven tool factory! Not only look and feel but also functionally very useful and focused on the solution required for QA folks.

Amarnath Senior Manager, Cisco Systems

Hi Pavan, Thanks for the introduction/demo to the tool during the meeting yesterday. Itlooks very promising and

( Automation Engineering )

definitely is a value add to testing. My phone was on mute last night and by the time I figured out the same, the topic had already changed .. hence, didn’t want to disrupt the discussion then. Mike, ccing Sundar as well where you were proposing we could use this GUI tool during scale testing. IMO, most of the scripts are automated and we don’t monitor the test runs while in progress every time, but we can definitely evaluate and use if feasible/where it helps ..Pavan, can you pl send us the link to the Wiki page so we can look it up and follow through. Thanks and regards, Amar

Arun Senior Program Manager, Cisco Systems

(Engineering)

This is good and interesting tool. Whoever worked on it should be recognized – not because it hit the issue we are debugging but just nature of tool seems pretty nice & well thought out.

Irrespective of validity of tool, is it helpful that issue can be reproduced

BTW – tool is pretty innovative irrespective of it is valid repro. I did not know it existed.

Mike Senior Director, Cisco Systems

(QA Engineering)

Sorry for the delay…fell so far behind on last week’s email I’m only catching up on last weekend today! It is a good tool…I think at least one connected recognition award was given.

Looks promising. Why don’t you start by sending out an email to the whole QA organization. We can look at spending some time at one of our future India/QA manager meetings;

-Mike

Brian Hi Pavan,

Senior Engineer, Cisco Systems

(Test Engineering)

This is a very useful tool and I use it every day now.

— Brian Gaudenti

Tom, Arun, Amritha, Krishna Senior Engineer, Cisco Systems

(Test Engineering)

Recognitions-

Congratulations for your great work towards Innovation, by simplifying the major pain point of UCSM testing.

– Amritha

Congratulations for brilliant innovation of UCSM Health Monitor to simplify the UCSM state analysis and for the ability to grasp technology very quickly. Keep inventing new.

– Arun

For me, if I can get the back traces for core dumps for “free” then this tool is a success and I appreciate it being available.

I also view the UCS Health Monitor in some respects as a“test tool”. It will do things different that UCSM, etc and therefore have the capabilities to find defects we might not see otherwise. I appreciate the work you have done as well as any fixes, enhancements, and maintenance/support.

– Tom

Pavan developed a very interesting and useful tool for ucsm QA which will monitor the health of the UCSM during our QA process.

-Krishna

Many More uncaptured recognitions …

BriefWorkflow

Implementation

Create Account/Login Screen

Configure Screen (Customize and Register for desired Services)

Monitor 1 Screen captures the Snapshot of all the failures and details (Cores/Faults/Syslogs/Process failures) reading from DUT

Monitor 2 Screen (Live Status of Tasks running in UCSM)

Single Click Button to Raise defect for Core (Auto filled form)

Internals and Usage