Setting Up Cisco Ucs for Monitoring in Solarwinds

SolarWinds Technical ReferenceSetting up a Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) as a Managed Node Introduction......................................................... 1 Setting up and Monitoring a Cisco UCS ............ 1 This paper provides the procedures for setting up a Cisco UCS for monitoring within Orion products. network management simplified - solarwinds.com WHETHER ARISING IN TORT. Graph Layout Toolkit and Graph Editor Toolkit © 1992 . published or distributed. All rights reserved worldwide. EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.Copyright© 1995-2012 SolarWinds. IN NO EVENT SHALL SOLARWINDS. and SolarWinds Toolset™ are trademarks of SolarWinds and SolarWinds. or translated to any electronic medium or other means without the written consent of SolarWinds. California. All Rights Reserved.2001 Tom Sawyer Software. LLC 1991-2002. in whole or in part. Document Revised: 11/29/2012 . 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MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.net® and the SolarWinds logo are registered trademarks of SolarWinds All other trademarks contained in this document and in the Software are the property of their respective owners. decompiled. STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE. disassembled. migrate. To setup Cisco UCS for monitoring: 1. and ucs. . d.should always be included. you will need to use another realm for local authentication. Confirm that the full user name is provided for both Locally and Remotely Authenticated Users. c. . and the primary fiber interconnect devices. you gain a view to all information that UCS provides. as in ucs-realm_name\username. When you add the UCS master device. expand User Management > User Services. On the Admin tab.Setting up Cisco UCS 1 Introduction Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) is designed to provision. Confirm that LDAP authentication is not enabled on your UCS device: a. If the default authentication realm is anything other than Local. and manage internetworking systems in datacenters. Below is an example of what you see in the detailed view of the UCS master node. b. into the Orion All Nodes resource. Note: Authentication should use the full username form. Open UCS Manager. The procedures in the following section guide you through the process of setting-up a Cisco UCS with the components shown in the example. Setting up and Monitoring a Cisco UCS Follow these steps to setup a Cisco UCS for monitoring in the Orion All Nodes resource. this is how to navigate to the values for Switch-A: Sys>Switch-A (or Switch-B)>Mgmt>if-1> ExtGW ExtIP EXTMask Not 0. Add each UCS fabric interconnect switch and blade device into the Orion All Nodes resource. d.0 Not 0.0. click on it. Add relevant pollers. 4. Click Edit in the All Nodes resource if the node is not in the list. Click Add Node and provide the information:  Hostname or IP Address o o o Dynamic IP Address ICMP (for Ping only) External .0.0. (The wizard disallows progress to the next screen when the test fails.) e. Click Edit in the All Nodes resource if the node is not in the list.0 If the external gateway. and then click ‘Yes’ when Orion asks to manage the devices using Orion NPM. Click Next if the test succeeds.0. 3. edit with values valid to external devices. a. g.2 Setting Up Cisco UCS 2. external IP address. b.0 Not 0. f. Note: If the node already show up in the All Nodes list in italics or with ‘n/a’ as the state.0. a. For example. Add the UCS Master node into the Orion All Nodes resource. Click Test under the UCS fields. Check the resources to monitor on the node. Verify in the UCS console that the fiber connects (Switch A and Switch B in the example) have external IP addresses.0. or external mask are set to 0. b. Review your information and when you’re ready click OK. Note: If the node already show up in the All Nodes list in italics or with ‘n/a’ as the state. and then click ‘Yes’ when Orion asks to manage the devices using Orion NPM.0. Click Add Node and provide the information:  Hostname or IP Address o o o o o     Dynamic IP Address ICMP (for Ping only) External UCS Manager credentials Poll for Vmware Polling Engine UCS Port UCS User Name UCS Password c.0.0. ADD NODE. click on it. Assuming each device status is still the same. doubleclick the device. This same mechanism is also used for the ESX VMWare API. h. The Orion node management software prompts you to add the node. Add relevant pollers. (The wizard disallows progress to the next screen when the test fails. g. Click Test under the SNMP fields. Perform steps b-g for each of the devices. you should see the UCS information as presented in the beginning of this document. Click Next if the test succeeds.Setting up Cisco UCS 3 o o      UCS Manager credentials Poll for Vmware Polling Engine SNMP Version SNMP Port Community String Read/Write Community String c. 5. To ensure that Standard Poller does not overwrite “MachineType” and other fields we use “EntityType” to identify UCS node in the Standard Poller (and so force Standard Poller not to overwrite our required fields). Check the resources to monitor on the node. Review your information and when you’re ready click OK. d. . Note: To select the proper view we use the existing “View By Device Type” feature. 6. f. ADD NODE. Double click on the UCS Master node in All Nodes and find the UCS Overview resource.) e. when you click OK the software redirects to the Add Node Wizard. If any UCS device shown in the UCS Overview is not currently managed in Orion All Nodes.