Cisco IMC Management Pack User Guide, Release 1.x For Microsoft System Center 2012, 2012 SP1 and 2012 R2, Operations Manager

Monitoring Cisco IMC using SCOM

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This chapter contains the following sections:

• Accessing the Monitoring Pane
• IMC Group State View
• Cisco IMC Management Service
• IMC Server Group(s)
• IMC Server Views
• Launching the CIMC Web Interface on a Cisco UCS Server
• Launching the KVM Console on a Cisco UCS Server
• Adjusting the Object Discovery Interval

Accessing the Monitoring Pane

After installing and configuring Cisco IMC Management Pack, you can use the Monitoring pane in SCOM to view the summary and the components of the Cisco UCS Server.

Step 1 In the Operations console, click the Go tab.

Step 2 From the drop-down menu, choose Monitoring.

Step 3 Expand the Cisco IMC folder.

IMC Group State View

You can use the IMC Group State View to provide a consolidated view of all the groups of Cisco IMC that are monitored by this management pack. This view also provides information about the service machine where the agent is hosted for the group. The State column in the IMC Group State View signifies the health of that group, and the following are the available states:

• Critical—Indicates that the health of one or more Cisco UCS Servers within that group is critical.
• Warning—Indicates that the health of one or more Cisco UCS servers within that group is unhealthily and requires attention.
• Healthy—Indicates that all the Cisco UCS servers in that group are healthy.

Cisco IMC Management Service

The Cisco IMC Management Service folder provides the following views:

• Alert View—Displays the alerts that are generated if any faults or service disruptions occur in any of the Cisco IMC Management Services.
• Performance View—Displays the performance of a Cisco IMC Management Service that is based on various counters such as processor time, user time, and threads.

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Note The Performance View does not show the performance of the Cisco IMC.

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• State View—Displays the health of the Cisco IMC Management Services.

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Note You can start or stop the services monitored from the Cisco IMC NT Service Tasks section.

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IMC Server Group(s)

The IMC Server Group(s) folder contains a list of all the IMC servers groups that are monitored by this management pack. Each group listed in this section has the following views:

• Alert View—Displays the alerts that are related to all the Cisco UCS Servers in a group. Various alert parameters such as the icon, source, name, description, and custom fields provide more information about the fault.

Note The Knowledge section of the alert provides information about the resolution of the fault.

• Miscellaneous Alert View—Displays all the alerts encountered during discovery of Cisco UCS Servers in the group. The types of alerts are:
• Ping Failure —Displays all the IPs for which the ping has failed.

Note The Ping Failure function is not applicable to Cisco IMC Release 1.2.1.

• Login Failure —Displays all the IPs for which the login has failed.
• Unsupported IMC Server Model —Displays all the Cisco IMC IP addresses whose model is not supported.
• Unsupported IMC Version—Displays all the IPs which does not have the supported Cisco IMC version.
• State View—Displays all the Cisco UCS Servers. The Details View pane displays the Cisco UCS server details such as the model, serial number, available memory, IP address, and Cisco UCS Server name.

IMC Server Views

The IMC Server Views are specific to a particular Cisco UCS server in a group.

The following views are available and can be launched for each Cisco UCS server:

• Diagram View—Displays the health and detailed information about the Cisco UCS server.
• Alert View—Displays the alerts for a specific Cisco UCS Server. The Knowledge section of Alert Details provides information about the fault summary, fault code, fault description, and how to resolve the fault.

Launching the CIMC Web Interface on a Cisco UCS Server

Step 1 In the Operations console, choose IMC server group(s) > IMC Group > State View.

Step 2 Choose the target Cisco UCS Server on which the CIMC web interface must be launched.

Step 3 In the Tasks pane, choose IMC Server Tasks.

Step 4 Click Launch CIMC to launch the CIMC web interface.

Launching the KVM Console on a Cisco UCS Server

Note The KVM console requires Java Version 1.6 Update (14) or higher.

Note To launch the KVM console, you must have valid Cisco IMC user credentials with administrator or user role privileges and must be associated with a group profile.

Step 1 In the Operations console, choose IMC Server group(s) > IMC Group > State View.

Step 2 Choose the target Cisco UCS server on which the KVM console must be launched.

Step 3 In the Tasks pane, choose IMC Server Tasks.

Step 4 Click Launch KVM to launch the KVM console.

Note When prompted, we recommend you to set the PowerShell execution policy to AllSigned or RemoteSigned. The user can then choose either [R] Run once or [A] Always run option to set the execution policy.

Note The KVM console cannot be launched on a Cisco UCS server, if the connection to the Cisco IMC is established using a proxy server.

Adjusting the Object Discovery Interval

The discovery interval is the specified time interval for polling the details of Cisco IMC in a group. This section describes the steps required to change the polling intervals for the objects.

Table 4-1 details the default discovery interval for the various Cisco IMC objects.

Step 1 In the Operations console, click the Go tab.

Step 2 From the drop-down list, choose Authoring.

Step 3 In the Authoring column, choose Authoring > Management Pack templates > Cisco IMC.

Step 4 Choose the template pack and right-click to choose View Management Pack Objects > Object Discoveries.

Step 5 In the Object Discovery page, choose the object and right-click Override.

Step 6 Choose Override > Override the Object Discovery > For All Objects of Class.

Step 7 In the Override Properties page, do the following:

a. Check the Override checkbox in the Interval seconds parameter option.

b. Modify the Override value.

c. Click OK.

The IMC Server Discovery and IMC server Group (<Group Name>) Discovery interval values can be overridden by any value. However, it is not recommended to have interval values lower than 720 and 600 seconds for the IMC Server Discovery and IMC Group (<Group Name>) Discovery objects respectively.