Cisco does not offer an OS agent for monitoring hardware health. Instead, they recommend using SNMP to poll the CIMC (BMC) using CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-MIB.
ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/ucs-mibs/CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-COMPUTE-MIB.my
May you please explain how I use this to monitoring CIsco UCS Server?
Thanks
These OIDs actually have to be polled through the CIMC (Cisco's remote mgmt card, similar to a DRAC or iLO). The idea is that you add these Universal Device Pollers to them.
While this will give you some information, I've found it incredibly tedious to try and build custom alerts around this MIB.
Instead, I'm looking at ways to utilize CIMC Fault reporting. There's a separate MIB that reports current Fault information. The problem is that it stops responding when the fault is gone, so Solarwinds never actually sees the fault "clear." I had a call with Cisco a couple days ago to discuss ways this could be improved.
Alternatively, I'm also looking at using the fault SNMP traps that the CIMC can generate. The trick then is configuring NPM alerting around traps. Refer to the comments in this thread for more info on that. https://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/3580#start=50
Any new support for monitoring UCS, DNA Center, ACI, and Firepower would be nice to have added to Orion out of the box in NPM.
We have a beta that is soon to be happening in SAM, which you can see some of the items that may be in there here. Please ping me or James Barnes if you are interested and available to participate and give us input and feedback.
Yep! Just let one of us know!
SAM 6.8 Release Notes provided updated UCS monitoring! Please let us know how you like the improvements.
WHY IS THIS NOT PART OF NPM?
But for a few dollars more "We can do that"
This make NO sense whatsoever. :smileymad::robotmad:
You assume that a product will monitor a "supported" but this is looking to be less and less true.
