Cisco UCS Management Pack for VMware vRealize Operations

[nnatesan]

UCS Management Pack 2.0(6) for VMWare vRealize Operations Manager 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6 (FIPS and NON-FIPS mode)

This version of the management pack supports VMware vRealize Operations Manager 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6 (FIPS and NON-FIPS mode)

• New properties added "Server names" and "User Labels"
• SDK upgraded to 8.3
• EULA update
• FIPS support
• Adapter VROPs for Cisco UCS with a collection problem
• Removal of deprecated credential kinds from vROps UI.
• Other bug fixes

Note:

• This management pack is certified by VMware for vROps 8.3 to 8.6 (FIPS & NON-FIPS mode). Cisco UCSM MP 2.0(6) is compatible with vROps 8.0 to 8.2 in NON-FIPS mode but it is not certified by VMware. 
•  The collection issue that occurred in Cisco UCS MP v2.0(5) has been resolved in v 2.0(6).
  
  

Download link:

https://software.cisco.com/download/home/286305108/type/286305820/release/2.0(6)

Release Notes:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/msft_tools/vCOps/release_notes/b_RN_Cisco_UCS_MP_Release_2x_For_vROps.html

User Guide:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/msft_tools/vCOps/User_guide/b_UCS_mgmt_pack_vROps_UG.html

UCS Management Pack 2.0(5) for VMWare vRealize Operations Manager 8.0 and 8.1

This version of the management pack supports VMware vRealize Operations Manager 8.0 and 8.1

• Added support for VMware vRealize Operations Manager version 8.0 and 8.1.
• Performance improvements.
• Used token based authentication to invoke vRealize Operation Manager APIs from the plugin.

Download link:

https://software.cisco.com/download/home/286305108/type/286305820/release/2.0(5)

Release Notes:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/msft_tools/vCOps/release_notes/b_RN_Cisco_UCS_MP_Release_2x_For_vROps.html

UCS Management Pack 2.0(4) for VMWare vRealize Operations Manager 6.6.1/6.7/7.0/7.5

This version of the management pack supports VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.6.1/6.7/7.0/7.5 with the following new features:

• Updated the dependent libraries.

Download link:

https://software.cisco.com/download/home/286305108/type/286305820/release/2.0(4)

Release Notes:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/msft_tools/vCOps/release_notes/b_RN_Cisco_UCS_MP_Release_2x_For_vROps.html

UCS Management Pack 2.0(3) for VMWare vRealize Operations Manager 6.3/6.4/6.5/6.6/6.7/7.0

This version of the management pack supports VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.3/6.4/6.5/6.6/6.7 and addresses few bugs along with new features as:

• Support for manual discovery of the resources
• Support for creating adapter instances using proxy server
• New Resource kinds, metrics and properties related to S3X60 chassis and severs.

Download link:

https://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?i=!y&mdfid=286305108&softwareid=286305820&release=2.0(3)

Release Notes:

Release Notes for Cisco UCS Management Pack, Release 2.x For VMware vRealize Operations Manager - Cisco

UCS Management Pack 2.0(2) for VMWare vRealize Operations Manager 6.2/6.3/6.4

This version of the management pack supports VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.2/6.3/6.4 and addresses few bugs.

Download link:

https://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?i=!y&mdfid=286305108&softwareid=286305820&release=2.0(2)

Release Notes:

Release Notes for Cisco UCS Management Pack, Release 2.x For VMware vRealize Operations Manager - Cisco

UCS Management Pack 2.0(1) for VMWare vRealize Operations Manager 6.0/6.1

Happy to announce that UCS Management Pack 2.0 for vRealize Operations 6.0/6.1 is on Cisco.com. 

This pack contains UCS Manager Adapter which helps in monitoring the UCS domain physical infrastructure within vRealize Operations. It provides correlation between the UCS physical and the VMWare virtual infrastructure components and features several capabilities including UCS inventory, monitoring UCS health and alerts, viewing correlations and I/O power, temperature performance metrics from within vRealize Operations.

Download Link:

https://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?mdfid=286305108&flowid=79283&softwareid=286305820&release=2.0(1)&relind=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest

Release Notes:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/msft_tools/vCOps/release_notes/UCSM_vROps_RN_2x.html

User Guide: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/msft_tools/vCOps/User_guide/b_UCS_mgmt_pack_vROps_UG.html

External customers - For any issues, contact Cisco TAC (highly recommended for quick resolution) or add a discussion to the Cisco Developed Integrations sub-space on Cisco UCS Communities. Send your suggestions for new features to ucs-vmw-plugins@cisco.com.

Internal (Cisco) customers and employees - Contact us at ucs-vcops@cisco.com for support questions and ucs-vmw-plugins@cisco.com for roadmap questions, new feature requests and feedback.

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UCSM Management Pack 1.1(1) for VMWare vCenter Operations Manager 5.8.x

New features in this release: All of UCSM Management Pack 1.0.1 features plus the following;

• Support for several new resource kinds - Fabric Interconnect, Server adaptor, server motherboard, fan, psu etc.
• Metrics and statistics for ports, port channels, adaptors, DCE interfaces, vHBAs, vNICs and iSCSI vNICs

Supported Cisco UCS Manager versions - 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2

Support VMware vCenter Operations Manager versions - 5.8 (5.8.2 and above)

Software Download:

https://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?mdfid=286282669&flowid=72562&softwareid=286283872&release=1.1.1&relind=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest

Release Notes:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/msft_tools/vCOps/release_notes/UCSM_mngt_pack_vCOps_release_notes.html

User Guide:

Cisco UCS Manager Adapter User Guide, Release 1.x for VMware vCenter Operations Manager - Cisco

[no11]

Michael:

Blue Medora is currently beta testing an updated version of it's vROps Management Pack for Cisco UCS that adds UCS Central in addition to the previously supported UCS Manager. 

If you have interest in trying it out, contact beta@bluemedora.com

[oliver.bier]

We just installed the UCS management pack 2.0.3 on our vROPS 6.4 appliance. But we have a strange behavior related to user accounts:

If I login to vROPS with the local admin I can see Dashboard and the configured adapter just under the local admin account. Not for vCenter Server admin. If I configure the adapter with a vCenter Server admin. I can see now that the adapter is configured for both local admin and vCenter Server admins but the Dashboards are still empty for the vCenter Server admins. Just the local admin is seeing the collected data. I also change the vrealize user in the adapter settings to both local and vcenter server admin user, but this isn't changing this behavior.

Regards,

Oliver

[nitimsin]

Hi Oliver,

We are unable to reproduce your issue in-house. Please let us know your available timings so that we can have a web-ex to understand your issue better.

Thanks,

Nitima

[neilrichler]

I'm working with a customer and we have successfully implemented the management pack to monitor several UCS domains. I'm trying to determine if this management pack can be used with individual Cisco servers, in this case a C220 M4S. They have a few that are not managed within a UCS domain and would like to monitor these in vRealize Operations.

[amana]

What are the port requirements for the adapter? UCS is in OOB network for me and VROPS is behind the FW. What ports do I need to open on FW for the communication to work?

Thanks. !

[nitimsin]

Hi Neil,

This is currently not supported by our management pack. Only servers managed by UCS Domains are supported. 

Regards,

Nitima

[vikmalap]

Hi Aman,

You will need to open either port 443 or 80 depending on the configuration of your adapter. Please make sure that UCS Manger is reachable from the vROps network.

Regards

Vikramarjuna M

[jeff.mcdermott]

installed new vROPs v6.6.1 & new UCS pack v2.0.3 but process fails on UCS instance configuration access.

using local vrops & local ucs accounts which produces error: 

Unable to establish a valid connection to the target system. Test failed! Error(551) - Authentication failed

here's a screenshot of credential used, which was reported as working on march 8 in this forum:

http://http://i.imgur.com/DtnwLYI.png

i confirmed i can login to ucs & vrops using the specified local credentials, so what am i missing?

[dc_server_support1]

Jeff,

I had the same issue. Look at Andrew Cody's reply from March 8th. For the VROM credentials I had to plug in the local admin as shown in his attached jpeg and the connection then worked.

[russellhamker]

When is support coming out for this for vROPs 7.0? vROPs 7.0 went GA August 27th, 2018.

[derek.robertson]

Is there any intention to ever add support for standalone UCS servers ?

[deepika876]

Hi Robertson,

There are no plans as of now. We will update you if in future we will add the support.

Thanks,

Deepika

[ajkbond]

is there a management pack for Cisco rack mount c-Series to monitor using VROPS ? current cisco ucs plugin (2.0.3) is not allowing to add c series servers. 

[deepika876]

Hi ,

Cisco UCS Management pack supports servers, both blades and racks, managed through FI (UCS Manager) only. It does not support standalone rack servers. We do not have any plans as of now to support standalone servers.

We will let you know when we add the support.

Thanks,

Deepika

[Joffrey GODARD]

Hi, Is there any chance that the VIF Paths of each service profile could be seen in the collected information in a near future release? This kind of information is seen in the vShpere Plugin but we cannot really use that in a way we could in vROPS... Thanks,