How will the Cisco UCS Manager react when all of the FSM tasks fail?

Question

Options

• Aretries for 60 seconds
• Braises faults and alarms
• Crestarts from the previous known good task
• Dsends an NOC SNMP trap email

• A
  8% (2)
• B
  88% (23)
• D
  4% (1)

Explanation

When all Finite State Machine (FSM) tasks fail in Cisco UCS Manager, the system raises faults and alarms (B) - this is the designed behavior for surfacing operational failures to administrators so they can investigate and take corrective action. FSM is the internal workflow engine UCS Manager uses to track and manage configuration and provisioning tasks, and fault/alarm generation is its native error-reporting mechanism.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (retries for 60 seconds): UCS Manager may retry individual tasks based on policy, but total FSM failure triggers fault generation, not a blanket 60-second retry loop.
• C (restarts from the previous known good task): FSM tracks state transitions but does not automatically roll back to a prior checkpoint on complete failure - that behavior doesn't exist in the FSM model.
• D (sends an NOC SNMP trap email): SNMP traps can be configured separately as a notification method, but they are not the direct reaction of the FSM itself; the FSM raises faults, and external tools may act on those faults.

Memory tip: Think of FSM failure as a fire alarm - UCS Manager doesn't fix the fire itself, it just raises the alarm (faults) so a human can respond. "FSM Fails → Faults Fire."

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