Hello!
So I'm the single administrator here where I work and I've been trying to tackle this one till I burned myself out thinking about it day and night for weeks on end. Took a long break and now I'm burning my brain again and still not getting much done.
1. We have a need to monitor UCS. But UCS monitoring seems limited from NPM perspective.
2. When we add an FI, we can see all of the information but it isn't adding up. For example, in the UCS object of the nodes detail where you can see the chassis and blades, any blade you pick redirects you to the KVM on that infrastructure. Really what we are trying to accomplish is map it so that when we click on a blade it takes us to device details and node information instead of redirecting to the KVM. I understand that the chassis and baldes connect to the KVM and it's how they are controlled. However, there has to be a way to either have solarwinds go through the KVM and get us the blade details or find a way to skip the KVM and map to the device.
3. We want to monitor faults and failures , service profiles, network lentency, problems between FI and network. etc. We want to deep dive into UCS monitoring.
4. Call to solarwinds was uneventful. I was just provided with a KB article and the tech while he attempted to help even he couldn't give me more information than the KB provided.
I just get the feeling that SolarWinds placed this just to be able to say they do UCS monitoring but they never expanded on this capability to perfect the monitoring around it.
But I'm happy to hear what the community can offer in terms of advice for UCS monitoring and how we could reach our goals or get as close as possible to what we are looking for.
Thanks in advance for any help.