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This chapter contains the following sections:
•Accessing the Monitoring Pane
•Cisco UCS C-Series Management Service
•Launching the CIMC Web Interface on a Rack Server
•Launching the KVM Console on a Rack Server
•Adjusting the Object Discovery Interval
•Adjusting the Fault Polling Interval
After installing and configuring Cisco UCS C-Series Management Pack, you can use the Monitoring pane in SCOM to view the summary and the components of the Cisco C-Series rack server.
Step 1 In the SCOM application menu bar, click the Go tab.
Step 2 From the drop-down menu, choose Monitoring.
Step 3 Expand the Cisco UCS C-Series folder.
You can use the C-Series Group State View to provide a dashboard view of all the groups of rack servers 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 C-Series 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 rack servers within that group is critical.
•Warning—Indicates that the health of one or more rack servers within that group is unhealthily and requires attention.
•Healthy—Indicates that all the rack servers in that group are healthy.
Step 1 In the SCOM application, choose Cisco UCS C-Series > C-Series Group State View.
Step 2 Choose the group for which the C-Series server data must be loaded.
Step 3 In the Tasks pane, choose C-Series Group (<Group Name>) Tasks.
Step 4 Click Load Cisco C-Series Data to launch the task and run it.
The Cisco UCS C-Series 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 UCS C-Series Management Services.
•Performance View—Displays the performance of a Cisco UCS C-Series Management Service that is based on various counters such as processor time, user time, and threads.
Note The Performance View does not show the performance of the Cisco C-Series rack servers.
•State View—Displays the health of the Cisco UCS C-Series Management Services.
Note You can start or stop the services monitored from the Cisco UCS C-Series NT Service Tasks section.
The C-Series Server Group(s) folder contains a list of all the rack 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 C-Series rack 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 C-Series server discovery group. The type of alerts are:
•Ping Failure—Displays all the IPs for which the ping has failed.
•Login Failure—Displays all the IPs for which the login has failed.
•Unsupported UCS C-Series Server Model—Displays all the IPs which are not the supported C-Series standalone servers.
•Unsupported UCS CIMC Version—Displays all the IPs which do not have the supported Cisco IMC version.
•State View—Displays all the C-Series Rack Servers. The Details View pane displays the rack server details such as the model, serial number, available memory, IP address, and rack unit name.
The Rack Server Views are specific to a particular rack server in a group.
The following views are available and can be launched for each C-Series rack server:
•Diagram View—Displays the health and detailed information about the rack server.
•Alert View—Displays the alerts for a specific Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Server. The Knowledge section of Alert Details provides information about the fault summary, fault code, fault description, and how to resolve the fault.
Step 1 In the SCOM application, choose C-Series server group(s) > Rack Group > State View.
Step 2 Choose the target rack server on which the CIMC web interface must be launched.
Step 3 In the Tasks pane, choose C-Series Server Tasks.
Step 4 Click Launch CIMC to launch the CIMC web interface.
Note The KVM console requires Java Version 1.6 Update (14) or higher and Cisco IMC version 1.5(2) or higher.
Note To launch the KVM console, you must have valid Cisco IMC user credentials with admin or user role privileges and must be associated with a group profile.
Step 1 In the SCOM application, choose C-Series server group(s) > Rack Group > State View.
Step 2 Choose the target rack server on which the KVM console must be launched.
Step 3 In the Tasks pane, choose C-Series Server Tasks.
Step 4 Click Launch KVM to launch the KVM console.
Note It is recommend to set the power shell 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.
The discovery interval is the specified time interval for polling the details of Cisco UCS C-Series servers in a group. This section describes the steps required to change the polling intervals for the objects.
Table 3-1 details the default discovery interval for the various Cisco UCS C-Series objects.
Step 1 In the SCOM application menu bar, 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 UCS C-Series.
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.
Note The C-Series Server Discovery and C-Series Group (<Group Name>) Discovery interval values can be overridden by any value. However, it is not recommend to have interval values lower than 720 and 600 seconds for the C-Series Server Discovery and C-Series Group (<Group Name>) Discovery objects respectively.
The Fault Polling Interval is used to poll the faults from the Cisco UCS C-Series Rack server.
Table 3-2 shows the default polling interval setting.
Table 3-2 Fault Polling Interval in Cisco UCS C-Series
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Load Fault |
720 |
Step 1 In the SCOM application menu bar, 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 UCS C-Series.
Step 4 Right-click the template pack and choose View Management Pack Objects > Rules.
Step 5 In the Rules page, choose the Load Fault Rule and choose Overrides > Override the Rule > For All Objects of Class.
Step 6 In the Override Properties page, do the following:
a. In the Interval Seconds row, check the Override checkbox.
b. In the Interval Seconds row, modify the value in the Override Value column.
c. Click OK.
This section describes how to modify the fault rule properties in the Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers.
Table 3-3 shows the default severity mapping between Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers and SCOM.
Table 3-3
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Critical, Major |
Critical |
Minor, Warning |
Warning |
Info, Cleared |
Information |
Severity Mapping Values
Step 1 In the SCOM application, launch the Fault Rule Properties page for the specific fault in one of the following ways:
•From the Alerts View page, do the following:
1. In the Alert View page, choose the fault.
2. Identify the Alert Rule and click the link to launch the Fault Properties page.
•From the fault group template, do the following:
1. In the SCOM application menu bar, click the Go tab.
2. From the drop-down menu, choose Authoring.
3. In the Authoring column, choose Authoring > Management Pack templates > Cisco UCS C-Series.
4. Right-click the template pack and choose View Management Pack Objects > Rules.
5. In the Rules page, right-click a rule and choose Properties.
Step 2 In the Rule Properties page, check the Enable checkbox to enable the rule.
Step 3 Click the Overrides tab, and check the Enabled checkbox in the Override column.
Note Repeat all the steps for every object of the class.
Tip You can also set the priority and severity of the fault by checking the override checkbox.