How to get VIC adaptor name and its running firmware from UCSM XML API

[Karthick Radhakrishnan]

Hello,

I'm trying to get VIC adaptor on the blade and its running firmware. I have preloaded VIC adaptor details in my script which are supported for the Cisco UCS blades. For eg, (1240, 1225, 1227, M81KR, etc). So, I need to match any one from this list and get its firmware from the XML output. When I looked at the API results (dn="sys"), I'm getting only the PID's of VIC adaptors but no model name (eg. VIC 1240). My question is: how do i map the PIDs with VIC adaptor names.

<adaptorUnit model="UCSB-MLOM-40G-01"...

   <mgmtController ...

     <firmwareRunning childAction="deleteNonPresent" deployment="boot-loader" packageVersion="" rn="fw-boot-loader" type="adaptor" version="2.0(1.104)"/>

...

     <firmwareRunning childAction="deleteNonPresent" deployment="system" packageVersion="2.2(3c)B" rn="fw-system" type="adaptor" version="4.0(1c)"/>

In the above output, I'm interested in getting the version="4.0(1c) by making sure the VIC adaptor name is 1240.

Thanks,

Karthick

[Karthick Radhakrishnan]

Folks,

I'm hoping for some help here. Thanks!

[nmohan001]

can you not use powertools?

Get-UcsAdaptorUnit |  Get-UcsMgmtController | Get-UcsFirmwareRunning

[Karthick Radhakrishnan]

The tool uses UCSM XML API and we cannot deviate from that. Anyways, I have figured it out in the XML API. To get the VIC adapter models(like 1240, 1280, etc) one has to map the model or pid. Below is the list I came up with and it worked in multiple configs. The end goal is to get the name of the VIC from the API results and can be achieved by mapping below PID.

UCSB-MLOM-40G-01	UCS 1240 Virtual Interface Card and Port Expander
UCSB-MLOM-40G-03	UCS 1340 Virtual Interface Card and Port Expander
UCS-VIC-M83-8P	UCS 1380 Virtual Interface Card
UCS-VIC-M82-8P	UCS 1280 Virtual Interface Card
UCSB-MEZ-QLG-03	UCS M73KR-Q Virtual Interface Card
UCSB-MEZ-ELX-03	M73KR-E
N20-AC0002	UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card
UCSC-PCIE-CSC-02	UCS 1225 Virtual Interface Card
UCSC-PCIE-C10T-02	UCS 1225T Virtual Interface Card
UCSC-PCIE-C40Q-02	UCS 1285 Virtual Interface Card
UCSC-MLOM-CSC-02	UCS 1227 Virtual Interface Card
UCSC-PCIE-BSFP	UCS Broadcom NetXtreme II 57712

[ericwill]

You will need to reference the PID + Vendor + Revision in the capability catalog.  In the UCSM GUI, that's how it gets the friendly details like Marketing Name, etc.   There is a PowerShell Cmdlet to do that for you as well.