First Published: May 4, 2016

Last Updated: September 2, 2021

Introduction

This document describes the system requirements, new features, Information about the images, known caveats, and workarounds for Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite, Release 4.x for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. This document also includes current information that became available after the technical documentation was published.

Use the release notes as a supplement with the other documents listed in the documentation roadmap:http://www.cisco.com/go/unifiedcomputing/b-series-doc.

Ensure that you review other available documentation on Cisco.com for current information on Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite, Release 4.x.

Revision History

Release

Date

Description

4.0(1)

May 04, 2016

Published release notes for Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite.

4.1(1)

December 21, 2016

Updated release notes for Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite. See New and Changed Features

4.1(2)

April 13, 2018

Updated release notes for Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite. See New and Changed Features

4.1(3)

November 14, 2018

Added support for Cisco UCS Manager Release 4.0

May 24, 2019

Added support for Cisco IMC Release 4.0.

November 05, 2019

Qualified with Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager 2019

4.1(4)

March 22, 2021

Updated release notes for Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite. See New and Changed Features.

4.1(5)

September 2, 2021

Qualified with Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager 2019 UR2

Following section was updated:

  • Resolved Caveats

Overview of Cisco UCS Management Pack

A management pack is a definition file with predefined monitoring settings that enables you to monitor a specific service or application in an Operations Manager. The discovery information settings allow Operations Manager to detect and begin monitoring services and applications automatically. The knowledge base consists alerts, reports, error, and troubleshooting information which helps you in resolving problems detected in the environment.

Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite, Release 4.x is a set of management packs which provide visibility to the health, performance and availability of Cisco UCS servers managed by Cisco UCS Manager and Cisco IMC. It also helps you to monitor health and availability of the Cisco UCS Central system.

System Requirements

The following system requirements are for Management Servers, Gateway Servers or Operations Manager Windows Agents (trusted or untrusted boundary) with Cisco UCS Monitoring Service running on them.

Verified versions of System Center Operations Manager are as follows:

  • 2019 UR2

  • 2019

  • 1807

  • 1801

  • 2016

  • 2012 R2

  • 2012

Management and Gateway Servers

System requirement for Management Server and Gateway Server are as per the Microsoft recommendations mentioned, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/scom/system-requirements

Operations Manager Windows Agents

The following are the System requirement for Windows agents, trusted or untrusted boundary running Cisco UCS Monitoring Service:

Hardware

  • Processor Architecture—64-bit with Quad-core or higher

  • Memory—8 GB or higher

  • Free Disk Space — 50 MB or higher

  • Network Connection — 1 MBps or faster

Operating System

Ensure that 64-bit version of the following operating systems are installed with the latest service packs:

  • Windows Server 2019

  • Windows Server 2016

  • Windows Server 2012 R2

  • Windows Server 2012

  • Windows Server 2008 R2

Software

Install the following software components before installing the Cisco UCS monitoring service on management servers:

Cisco UCS MP Version

.NET Framework Version

Windows PowerShell Version

4.1.4 or higher

4.7.1 or higher

5.1 or higher

4.1.3 and earlier

4.6 or higher

3.0 or higher

Supported Cisco UCS Manager Releases

Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is compatible with the following Cisco UCS Manager releases:

  • Release 4.1

  • Release 4.0

  • Release 3.2

  • Release 3.1

  • Release 3.0

  • Release 2.5

  • Release 2.2

  • Release 2.1

Supported Cisco IMC Release

Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is compatible with the following Cisco IMC releases:

  • Release 4.1


    Note

    Supported only for Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite version 4.1.4 or higher.

  • Release 3.1


    Note

    Supported only for Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite v4.1.1 or higher.

  • Release 3.0


    Note

    Supported only for Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite v4.1.1 or higher.

  • Release 2.0(3) or higher

Supported Cisco UCS Central Releases

Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is compatible with the following Cisco UCS Central releases:

  • Release 2.0

  • Release 1.5

  • Release 1.4

  • Release 1.3

New Features

This section provides an overview of the significant new and changed features in this release. This section does not provide an exhaustive list of all enhancements included in this release.

Release 4.1(4)

  • Support for System Center Operation Manager 2019 UR2

  • Support for new faults in Cisco UCS Manager Release 4.1 and Cisco UCS IMC Release 4.1

Release 4.1(3)

Verified for System Center Operation Manager 2019, 1801 and 1807

Release 4.1(2)

  • Support for new faults in Cisco UCS Manager Release 3.2(3) and Cisco UCS Central Release 2.0(1)

Release 4.1(1)

  • Support for System Center 2016, Operations Manager

  • Support to monitor UCS domains which are registered to UCS Central using UCS Central Management Pack

  • Support to add UCS Manager, UCS Central, and Cisco IMC using IPv6 addresses

  • Support to monitor standalone Cisco UCS S3260 using IMC Management Pack

  • Support to monitor UCS Manager managed Cisco UCS S3260 using UCS Manager Management Pack

  • Support to launch KVM console using in-band or out-of-band IP addresses for server in UCS domain

  • Support to generate UCS Manager technical support bundle

  • Support for new faults in Cisco UCS Manager, Release 3.1(2), Cisco IMC, Release 2.0(13), and Cisco UCS Central, Release 1.5(1)

Release 4.0(1)

Rule per UCS Fault

The Cisco Management Packs uniformly uses rules for monitoring UCS Manager, IMC, and UCS Central. A rule exists for every fault in UCS Manager, UCS Central, and IMC Server. You can perform various operations on faults alerts handled by the corresponding Rules.

The fault rules are supported for the following releases:

  • UCS Manager

    • Release 2.2(6)

    • Release 2.5(2)

    • Release 3.0(2)

  • Cisco IMC

    • Release 2.0(8d)

  • Cisco UCS Central

    • Release 1.3(1)

Modularized Management Pack Design

Uniform set of features provided across Cisco UCS Manager, Cisco UCS Central, and Cisco IMC Management Packs to improve performance.

Performance Metrics support for UCS Manager

  • Support to collect detailed set of UCS performance data for Fan, PSU, CPU, Motherboard, Ports, Memory, and Adaptors and so on

  • Historic UCS Manager performance data available in the data warehouse

  • Support for report generation from historic data

M-Series Chassis support for UCS Manager

  • Cartridge and Server Unit Discovery and Fault Monitoring

  • KVM launch for Server Units

Enhanced Inventory and Alert Views

  • Dashboard view for UCS inventory

  • Separate views in Alert Dashboard for Active, Acknowledged, and Cleared alerts for UCS Manager and UCS Central

  • Enhanced Dashboard views for Monitoring Service

Support for Monitoring Cisco UCS Central

  • PowerShellCmdlet support for UCS Central

  • Support for monitoring UCS Central components, such as organization, and global service profile

Upgrading and Migrating the Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite

The Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite, Release 4.x does not support direct upgrade from 3.x and 2.6 versions. You need to uninstall the previous version and install the 4.x version. For upgrade instructions, see Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite Installation and Deployment Guide, Release 4.x For Microsoft System Center Operations Manager .

To migrate from Release 3.x to 4.x, run the backup script, uninstall all the previous version, install the version 4.x, and run the migration scripts. For more information on the migrating scripts, see https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-67249.

Supported Cisco UCS Manager Management Pack for Migration

  • Version 3.1(2)

  • Version 3.1(1)

Supported Cisco IMC Management Pack for Migration

  • Version 1.2(1)

  • Version 1.1(1)

You can download the migration scripts from https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-67249

Resolved Caveats

Resolved Caveats in 4.1(5)

The following table lists the resolved caveats for this release.

Table 1. Resolved Caveats in 4.1(5)

Bug ID

Description

First Release Affected

Resolved in Release

CSCvx35363

UCSM fault for Shared IO Module does not get not captured in SCOM Console.

4.1(3)

4.1(5)

CSCvy61263

Upgrading the Cisco UCS MP Suite Update-UcsScomAllInstance command does not work

4.1(3)

4.1(5)

CSCvz03334

Cisco.Ucs.Watcher.

Service.StateMonitor

in Cisco UCS MP is missing multiple configurations

4.1(3)

4.1(5)

CSCvz07960

Get cmdlets are missing in SCOM UCSM, IMC and Central modules to get monitored instances

4.1(3)

4.1(5)

Resolved Caveats in 4.1(4)

The following table lists the resolved caveats for this release.

Table 2. Resolved Caveats in 4.1(4)

Bug ID

Description

First Release Affected

Resolved in Release

CSCvw30812

Upgrading the Cisco UCS MP Suite : Update-UcsScomAllInstance script throws error

4.1(3)

4.1(4)

Resolved Caveats in 4.1(2)

The following table lists the resolved caveats for this release.

Table 3. Resolved Caveats in 4.1(2)

Bug ID

Description

First Release Affected

Resolved in Release

CSCvd78155

Cisco.Ucs.Monitoring.Service installation fails on Windows Server 2012 R2 with Powershell 5.0 with the following error message:

?The application requires MicrosoftPowershell version 2.0 or higher?

4.0(1)

4.1(2)

CSCve21074

Cisco UCS Management Pack (v4.0.1.0) does not auto-resolve the alerts generated in SCOM.

4.0(1)

4.1(2)

CSCvh16816

UCS SCOM management pack fails to install on SCOM servers in DMZ, which are for monitoring UCS pods, with read-only DCs.

4.0(1)

4.1(2)

CSCvh30879

Monitoring service installation fails for user having limited permissions.

4.0(1)

4.1(2)

Resolved Caveats in 4.0(1)

The following table lists the resolved caveats for this release.

Table 4. Resolved Caveats in 4.0(1)

Bug ID

Description

First Release Affected

Resolved in Release

CSCuq78612

In UCS Manager Management Pack, periodic events with id 4508 appears in Operation Manager event log.

3.0(1)

4.0(1)

Open Caveats

Release 4.1(4)

The following table lists the open caveats for this release.

Defect ID

Symptom

Workaround

CSCvx35363

UCSM fault for Shared IO Module does not get captured in SCOM Console.

None.

Release 4.1(3)

The following table lists the open caveats for this release.

Defect ID

Symptom

Workaround

CSCvk09929

When adding a new Management Pack and creating a new account along with the Management Pack, the Run As account may not get associated to the profile. This happens randomly.

When this issue occurs, the Run As account can be associated to the profile manually.

  1. Navigate to Administrator > Profiles

  2. Right-click the added profile and select Properties

  3. Click Next and move to the Run As Account page

  4. Add the Run As account and complete and save the settings

Release 4.1(1)

The following table lists the open caveats for this release.

Defect ID

Symptom

Workaround

CSCvb90915

Un-handled exception occurs when trying to close the Rules, Monitor, or Object Discovery window after searching Cisco IMC, Cisco UCS Manager or Cisco UCS Central rules, monitor, or object discovery in the Operations console.

None

CSCva10316

Single domain group is displayed for multiple domain group with same name in Operations console.

Avoid domain groups with same name in Cisco UCS Central.

Release 4.0(1)

The following table lists the open caveats for this release.

Defect ID

Symptom

Workaround

CSCux89221

In UCS Manager Management Pack, when a threshold fault severity changes in UCS Manager, it is not shown in the Operations Manager console.

None

CSCuz27006

In UCS Manager Management Pack, unable to launch KVM cosole for M Series using Operations Manager console

None

CSCuz45408

Unable to acknowledge faults if UCS is monitored using gateway or untrusted agent.

Monitor the UCS instances using trusted agent or Management Server.

CSCuy87012

Unable to launch KVM if UCS is monitored using gateway server or untrusted agent.

Open Operations Manager console on a gateway server, and then launch KVM.

CSCuy10946

In UCS Central Management Pack, alerts acknowledged by nonadmin users are deleted from the alert view

Add UCS Central in the Operations Manager with the account having privileges to acknowledge faults.

CSCvd78155

Cisco.Ucs.Monitoring.Service installation fails on Windows Server 2012 R2 with Powershell 5.0 with the following error message:

?The application requires MicrosoftPowershell version 2.0 or higher?

Manually create an entry for key ?PowerShellEngine? at the following location on the system and then re-try the installer:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft

\PowerShell\1

CSCve21074

Cisco UCS Management Pack (v4.0.1.0) does not auto-resolve the alerts generated in SCOM.

CSCvh16816

UCS SCOM management pack fails to install on SCOM servers in DMZ, which are for monitoring UCS pods, with read-only DCs.

CSCvh30879

Monitoring service installation fails for user having limited permissions.

Related Cisco UCS Documentation

Documentation Roadmaps

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Other Documentation Resources

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