Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite, Release 4.x is a set of management packs which provide visibility to the health, performance and availability of Cisco UCS servers managed by Cisco UCS Manager and Cisco IMC. It also helps you to monitor health and availability of the Cisco UCS Central system.
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Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite for Microsoft System Center 2012, Operations Manager (version 4.0.1) is posted on cisco.com
To download the Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite for Microsoft System Center 2012, Operations Manager (version 4.0.1) click here (requires cisco.com login)
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Migration Scripts:
Migration scripts will help you to migrate the UCS Domains and IMC Groups instance templates from previous version of Cisco UCSM Management Pack or Cisco IMC Management Pack to the latest Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite, Release 4.x.
Supported Management Pack versions for migration
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Cisco UCSM Management Pack
- Version 3.1.2
- Version 3.1.1
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Cisco IMC Management Pack
- Version 1.2.1
- Version 1.1.1
Migration scrips and User Document are attached below.
For a detailed list of UCS Server Faults, please refer to the attachments at the bottom of the "UCS Monitoring Resource Handbook" post: https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-37197
New features in version 4.0.1
- Unified Cisco UCS Monitoring Service for Cisco UCS Manager, Cisco IMC and Cisco UCS Central.
- Modularized Management Pack design offer uniform set of features across all the Management Packs.
- M-Series Chassis support in UCS Manager Management Pack.
- Performance metrics for UCS Manager.
- Enhanced inventory and Alert views.
- Support to monitoring Cisco UCS Central through Cisco UCS Central Management Pack.
Release 3.1(2) adds support for the following:
- Added power state change notification for blade and rack servers
- Enhanced PowerShell Cmdlets to support Cisco UCS domains in a single management pack
- Support to create Run As Account with more secure distribution policy while adding a new UCS domain instance
- Added Product Knowledge for UCS Manager login failure alert
- Added Occur field (Number of Occurrences of UCS fault) in alert description
Release 3.1(1) adds support for the following:
- Supports UCS Mini.
- PowerShell cmdlets for adding or updating UCS instances in Operations Manager.
- PowerShell cmdlets for managing discoveries and monitors.
- Supports Proxy server.
- Encrypted proxy password.
- Support to upgrade existing UCS instances after upgrading the management pack.
- Increase in the organization hierarchy discovery from root level to level 3.
Release 3.0(2) adds support for the following:
- Supports no new features as this is a bug fix release.
Release 3.0(1) adds support for the following:
- One monitor per UCS Domain fault.
- Knowledge articles in monitors containing the details of the faults and recommended action.
- Supports installation of Cisco UCS Management Service on Management Servers, Windows Agents (trusted or un-trusted domain boundary) and Gateway Servers.
- Event based discovery for on-demand execution of object discovery.
- Support for real time UCS monitoring
- Dedicated Service Machine for UCS Domain Monitoring.
- KVM Console launch on a Service Profile, Blade Server, or Rack Unit.
- Silent installation allowing administrators to run the installer from a script without prompting for user inputs.
- Run-As Account association in the Add Monitoring Wizard simplifies the overall process to start monitoring a UCS Domain.
- More secure account distribution.
- Tech Support utility facilitates collecting logs for diagnosing an issue.