Overview

This chapter contains the following sections:

About Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite

Management Pack is a definition file with predefined monitoring settings. It enables you to monitor a specific service or application in Operations Manager. These predefined settings include discovery information which allows Operations Manager to automatically detect and start the monitoring services and applications. It also has a knowledge base which contains error details, troubleshooting information, alerts, and reports which helps to resolve the problems detected in the environment.

The Cisco IMC Management Pack monitors a group of Cisco IMC standalone Cisco UCS C-Series and E-Series servers. It has object discoveries for discovering the Cisco IMC servers and rules to monitor the server health, and raise alerts for the server faults.

The Cisco UCS Manager Management Pack provides visibility to the health, performance, and availability of a Cisco UCS domain through a single, familiar, and easy-to-use interface. The management pack contains rules to monitor chassis, blade servers, rack servers, and service profiles across multiple Cisco UCS domains.

The Cisco UCS Central Management Pack has rules to monitor global service profiles and organizations across multiple Cisco UCS Central. It provides visibility of health and alerts through familiar and easy-to-use interface.

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