Release Notes for Cisco IMC Integration Pack, Release 1.0 for Microsoft System Center 2012, 2012 SP1 and 2012 R2 - Orchestrator

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Release Notes for Cisco IMC Integration Pack, Release 1.0 For Microsoft System Center 2012, 2012 SP1 and 2012 R2 - Orchestrator

Contents

Introduction

System Requirements

Operating System Requirements

Software Requirements

Supported C-Series and E-Series Versions

New Features

New Activities

Sample Runbooks

Known Limitations

Cisco UCS Communities

Related Documentation

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Release Notes for Cisco IMC Integration Pack, Release 1.0
For Microsoft System Center 2012, 2012 SP1 and 2012 R2 - Orchestrator

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First Published: December 2013

Current Release: 1.0

Part Number: OL-31226-01

This document describes the system requirements, new features, information about the images, resolved caveats, known caveats, and workarounds for Cisco IMC Integration Pack, Release 1.0 for Microsoft System Center Orchestrator, 2012, 2012 SP1 and 2012 R2 - Orchestrator. This document also includes current information that became available after the technical documentation was published.

Use these release notes as a supplement with the other documents listed in the Cisco UCS C-Series Documentation Roadmap and Documentation Guide for Cisco UCS E-Series Servers .

Make sure to review other available documentation on Cisco.com to obtain the most current information about Cisco IMC Integration Pack, Release 1.0.

Contents

This document includes the following sections:

• Introduction
• System Requirements
• New Features
• Known Limitations
• Cisco UCS Communities
• Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Introduction

The Cisco IMC Integration Pack is an add-on for Microsoft System Center 2012, 2012 SP1and 2012 R2 - Orchestrator (SCO) that enables you to automate Cisco UCS C-Series and E-Series server tasks. You can use the Integration Pack to create workflows that interact with and transfer information to other Microsoft System Center products such as Microsoft System Center 2012 - Operations Manager.

System Requirements

Before installing the Cisco IMC Integration Pack, ensure that the system meets or exceeds the following minimum requirements:

• Operating System Requirements
• Software Requirements
• Supported C-Series and E-Series Versions

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Note You can find installation and upgrade information for Microsoft SCO on the Microsoft website.

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Operating System Requirements

• Windows Server 2008 R2 or later.
• The latest service packs must be installed for all operating systems.

Software Requirements

• Cisco UCS C-Series PowerTool (Version 1.0.1 or later)
• Microsoft System Center 2012 or 2012 SP1 or 2012 R2 - Orchestrator
• Windows PowerShell 2.0 or later

Supported C-Series and E-Series Versions

• Supports Cisco UCS C-Series CIMC version 1.5(1) or later
• Supports Cisco UCS E-Series version 2.2(1) or later

New Features

This section briefly describes the new features introduced in Cisco IMC Integration Pack, Release 1.0. For detailed information about the features listed, see the documents listed in the “Cisco UCS Communities” section.

New Activities

The first release of the integration pack supports the following activities that can be used to automate the configuration, monitoring, and deployment of Cisco UCS C-Series and E-Series server resources in the data center by creating new runbooks or integrating it with existing runbooks:

• Add IMC Local User
• Add IMC ManagedObject
• Connect IMC
• Copy IMC ManagedObject
• Disconnect IMC
• Export IMC Configuration
• Export IMC Tech Support
• Get IMC Child
• Get IMC ManagedObject
• Import IMC Configuration
• Remove IMC ManagedObject
• Run IMC PowerTool
• Set IMC ManagedObject

Sample Runbooks

To illustrate the usage of activities available as part of this integration pack, a set of sample runbooks is available for download on the CDN website. Users can import these sample runbooks into their runbook designer and use it to understand how the activities can be used to publish data, use data, and execute an action on the Cisco UCS C-Series and E-Series servers.

Known Limitations

Cisco IMC Integration Pack, Release 1.0. has no known limitations.

Cisco UCS Communities

Cisco UCS Communities is a platform to discuss, share and learn about the Cisco Products and Technologies. For blogs, discussion forums and documents related to UCS integrations with partner ecosystem, visit https://communities.cisco.com/ucsintegrations

Related Documentation

For more information, you can access related documents from the following links:

• Cisco UCS C-Series Servers Documentation Roadmap
• Documentation Guide for Cisco UCS E-Series Servers
• Cisco UCS Rack-Mount Servers CIMC XML API Programmer’s Guide
• Cisco IMC Integration Pack User Guide, Release 1.0 for Microsoft System Center 2012, 2012 SP1 and 2012 R2 - Orchestrator

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

For information on obtaining documentation, submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see What’s New in Cisco Product Documentation at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html .

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This document is to be used in conjunction with the documents listed in the “Cisco UCS Communities” section.

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