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Hardware health monitoring of standalone C-Series UCS servers

I would like to see hardware health monitoring of standalone C-Series UCS servers in NPM. It does not appear it is possible to do through the OS like is able to with HP servers, but appears to be able to be done via the CIMC on the C-Series servers.  I know the MIBs are loaded in NPM as I was able to query many hardware aspects of the server via the CIMC IP address instead of the server.

I have enabled UCS monitoring on the CIMC node and entered my CIMC login information and it accepts the information and tests successfully. But it does not query the hardware information like it does when there are setup with UCS Manager and B Series.

  • His ask was a standalone C-Series UCS. We have a few of these also as we standardize on the UCS hardware for our servers. They are not under a UCS manager and so there is no good way to get alerts from solarwinds today.

    I have CIMC send out alerts but it would be nice to have solarwinds monitor these devices. I will try to the UnDP attached (thanks Russell), but i would like to have it integrated into the product as well.

  • The problem is, that if the rackmount servers are managed from UCS manager then you cannot get to the information.  I have tried numerous ways and it doesn't seem possible.  Also the rackmount servers don't appear in the UCS manager node pages!

  • I'm not sure if you saw this UnDP from created by dnerdahl on Jan 20, 2015 1:02 PM.  Thanks dnerdahl

    C-Series Hardware health.UnDP

  • I'm having the same issue as you are and we have been in contact with Cisco support about this and it looks like if you have UCS manager in place you can monitor C-Series servers as long as you have the supported 10GB VIC cards, there is no way to add it into UCS Manager without them. Also as of December and C-Series version 2.0 or better only CIMC can be added to monitor the system, Looks like Cisco is trying its own hand at monitoring there devices without sharing because you cannot monitor it with Orion...