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Step 1 Launch the Cisco IMC Management Pack Installer.
Note If the Operations Manager console is open and you launch the installer a corresponding error message displays asking you to close the console.
Step 2 In the Setup Wizard page, click Next.
Step 3 In the License Agreement page, do the following steps:
a. Review the End User License Agreement.
b. Click the I accept the terms in the License Agreement radio button.
Step 4 In the Product Registration page, do the following steps:
a. In the Username field, enter your username.
b. (Optional) In the Organization field, enter the name of the company.
Step 5 In the Setup Type page, choose one of the following options and then click Next:
Step 6 In the Features to Install page, select the required components from the options displayed. The options displayed are:
Note You can import Cisco IMC Management Pack on any management server in the management group.
Note If you decided to install only Cisco IMC Management Service you need to first install the Cisco IMC Management Pack.
Note You must import Cisco IMC Management Pack in the management group in order to install the Cisco IMC Management Service on other management servers.
Step 7 In the Select Installation Folder page, click Browse and navigate to the installation folder.
Step 9 Click Install to start the installation.
Step 10 In the Installation Complete page, click Finish to exit.
Note The Update existing IMC instances check box on the Installation Complete page is checked by default. If you wish to update the instances later, uncheck the check box and run the Update-ImcScomAllGroups cmdlet whenever you wish to update the instances. For more details see the Adding or updating Cisco IMC Groups using PowerShell Cmdlets section.
Note In order to monitor all IMC server faults, we recommend you to update the existing Cisco IMC instances.
Effective with Release 1.1.1, Cisco IMC Management Pack can be installed in a non interactive manner.
Step 1 Run command prompt with Administrative privilege.
Step 2 Navigate to the directory where the installer is present.
Step 3 To perform a silent installation of Cisco IMC Management Pack Release 1.1.1, run the command Cisco.IMC.MP.Setup.v1.1.1.0-x64.msi /quiet.
Step 1 Launch the Cisco IMC Management Pack Installer.
Step 2 In the Setup Wizard page, click Next.
Step 3 In the License Agreement page, do the following:
a. Review the End User License Agreement.
b. Click the I accept the terms in the License Agreement radio button.
Step 4 In the Product Registration page, do the following:
a. In the Username field, enter your username.
b. (Optional) In the Organization field, enter the name of the company.
Step 5 In the Features to Install page, choose the Install Cisco IMC Management Service option and click Next to proceed.
Note The option for importing the management pack is disabled if the management pack has already been installed.
Step 6 In the Select Installation Folder page, browse to the new folder location to install the management service.
Step 7 Click Install to start the installation.
Step 8 In the Installation Complete page, click Finish to exit.
Before you start monitoring your Cisco UCS domain, enable the following inbound rules in the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security on the computer where you run the Cisco IMC Management Service:
To upgrade Cisco UCS C-Series Management Pack Release 1.0.1 and 1.1.1 to the latest Management Pack, follow these steps:
Step 1 Run the installer of Cisco IMC Management Pack Release 1.2.1 on the Management Server where the previous release was installed.
Step 2 When previous installation is detected, click Upgrade. Management pack will be upgraded to Cisco IMC Management Pack Release 1.2.1.
Step 3 Once the installation is complete, check the Update existing IMC instances check box and click Finish.
Step 4 Run the management pack installer 1.2.1 on each management server where Cisco UCS C-Series Management Service or Cisco IMC Management Service is installed.
Note The Update existing IMC instances check box is checked by default. Upon completing installation, the PowerShell window is displayed where the existing IMC instances in the Cisco IMC Management Pack are updated.
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 Management Pack Templates > Cisco IMC.
Step 4 In the Tasks pane, click the Add Monitoring Wizard. The Add Monitoring Wizard page opens.
Step 5 In the Select Monitoring Type page, select Cisco IMC as the monitoring type.
Step 7 In the Discovery Methods page, define the Cisco IMC Discovery rule as follows:
a. Discover by IP Combinations—Specify a range of IP addresses range (add hyphen) and multiple single IP address (separated by comma).
Note You can enter 254 IP addresses in this page.
b. Discover by IP Range—Specify starting and ending IP address.
c. Discover via Subnet mask—Specify the network address and subnet mask.
Step 8 In the Discovery Results page, unselect the individual IP addresses to be excluded.
Step 10 In the Connection Parameters page, verify (modify if required) the following:
a. Connection parameters—Port number and connection mode
Step 11 In the Group Name page, specify a name for the group of the standalone Cisco IMC Servers.
Step 12 (Optional) In the Description field, enter the description for the group.
Step 13 To add an account, click Run As Account.
a. From the Add Run As Account dialog choose Run As Account from the drop-drop list.
c. Once the Create Run As Account dialogs opens enter the following: Display Name, Description (optional), Account Name, Password and Confirm Password to create a new Run As Account.
Note In Management Pack section of Group Name Page, check the Use existing management pack or create new checkbox to save the current Cisco IMC group in a different management pack.
Note The Default Management Pack is the first management pack that appears in the list when you are creating an Override. Do not save anything in the Default Management Pack.
Step 15 Review the properties that are displayed in the summary page, and click Create.
Note If the Run-As Account is not associated while creating the Cisco IMC Group, then you must associate it manually to the Run As Profile created by this management pack. For more information, see Associating an Account to a Run-As Profile.
You can add a new IMC group or update existing group(s) using PowerShell cmdlets. For more details see Adding or Updating Cisco IMC Groups
You need to configure a Cisco IMC Group account if you did not associate a Run-As Account with the IMC Group while adding the template in the Add Monitoring Wizard, or if you wished to modify the current account association for the IMC Group.
To create an account for the Cisco IMC group, create a Run-As Account with the Cisco IMC username and password, to be used by the management pack.
See https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh321655.aspx for detailed instructions on how to create a Run-As account.
Note On the General Properties page, make sure to select Simple Authentication as the Run-As Account Type.
Note If the Cisco IMC is configured for domain authentication, enter the account name on the Credentials page in the format <username@domainname> where domainname is the LDAP domain name configured in Cisco IMC.
Note A Cisco IMC user account with read-only privileges can discover and monitor Cisco IMC from the Operations Manager console.
After you create an account, you need to associate the account with the IMC Group’s Run-As Profile. A Run-As Profile is created with the same name as the IMC Group name in Operations Manager.
See https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh212825.aspx for detailed instructions on how to associate an account with a Run-As Profile.
Note An account associated with the IMC Group Run-As Profile is used to establish a connection with all the Cisco IMC Internet protocols within the IMC Group.
Step 1 In the Operations console, click the Go tab.
Step 2 From the drop-down list, choose Administration.
Step 3 In the Administration column, click Management Packs.
A list of management packs appear in the right panel.
Step 4 Choose Cisco IMC Management Pack and right-click Properties.
Step 5 Click the Dependencies tab.
Step 6 Make a list of all the entries under Management Packs that depend on this management pack.
Step 8 In the SCOM Operations Manager page, choose the management pack and click Delete to delete all the dependent management packs individually.
Step 9 Open Control Panel. Select Program and Features.
Step 10 Remove Cisco IMC Management Pack.
Note Step 9 through Step 10 should be performed on all the Management Servers where the Management Service was installed.
Alternatively, you could complete the following steps to remove the Cisco IMC Management Service:
Step 11 Run the installer a second time.
The Ready to Remove page appears.
Step 14 Click Remove to completely remove the Cisco IMC management service.
Note The installer tries to remove the management pack from the management group, even if only service is installed on that machine. In case you were unable to remove the management pack, the installer continues to uninstall the components, but you need to manually remove the management pack from the SCOM Console.