UCS C Series hardware monitoring

[wellsdavidj]

Does anybody know how we could monitor the UCS C Series hardware (power supply, Hard disk, Memory ect...) within SolarWinds. We usually monitor servers via SNMP. It looks like there is the CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-EQUIPMENT-MIB that is supported on UCS manager 1.4 and above. When I to poll the box for those MIB's I get the OID is not supported. The UCS C Series server is on 1.3(2j) for the firmware version. Do we need to upgrade to 1.4 to get the equipment monitoring to work or is there another way? I notice a lot of users are monitoring B Series in Solarwinds but I haven't really seen anything on C Series.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

[padramas · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Yes, CIMC 1.4 has additional SNMP functionality.

ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/supportlists/ucs/ucs-C-supportlist.html

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Release 1.4(3)

provides SNMP V1/V2c/V3 support for inventory and fault monitoring of fans, power supplies, CPU, Memory and Storage Controllers, Physical Drives, Logical Drives and Battery Backup Units. The SNMP agent supports SNMP V1/V2c/V3 traps and V2c informs. This release also carries further the MIB-II Implementation, from the previous release, for “System”, “Interfaces” and “SNMP”.

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UCS top level OID -- 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.719.

719.1.1.1.1 -- fault table

719.1.15 -- Inventory table

OID for specific components,

719.1.15.12  -- Fan

719.1.15.56  -- PSU

719.1.30      --  Memory

719.1.41      --  CPU

719.1.45      --  Storage ( controller , LUN , disks and BBU table )

HTH

Padma

[wellsdavidj]

Thank you for that. I just found a C Series that is on 1.4 and I was able to poll the hardware.

That was a very quick and well informed response. Thank you.

[gmuer]

Hi Padma,

From my point of view the snmp functionality in CIMC 1.5 changed quite a bit. It’s not possible to monitor physical parts as described anymore. I can only access the cucsComputeRackUnitTable to read a Rack Unit OperState for example.
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.719.1.9.35.1.42.1

What’s the idea behind this change of snmp functionality? How do you recommend to monitor physical parts with release 1.5?

Regards,

Stefan

[padramas]

Hello Stefan,

For CIMC 1.5, can you make sure have the latest MIB on your NMS system ?

http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/netmgmt/cmtk/mibs.shtml

Other resources that might help you

UCS Tech Talk: Demystifying Monitoring for Cisco UCS Manager and Standalone C-Series Servers:

https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-37138

Cisco UCS Monitoring Resource Handbook: (Supplement to the above Webinar)

https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-37197

C-Series MIB Reference Guide:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/mib/c-series/b_UCS_Standalone_C-Series_MIBRef.pdf

Padma