UCS device monitoring requirements
This SolarWinds Platform topic applies only to the following products:
Hybrid Cloud Observability Essentials — Hybrid Cloud Observability Advanced
NPM — SAM — VMAN
| Requirement | Details |
|---|---|
| SAM 6.8 or VMAN 8.4, or later | If running earlier product versions, upgrade to extend monitoring capabilities for UCS devices. |
| Polling method |
Use ICMP or SNMP for UCS devices. SolarWinds recommends using the "Most Devices: SNMP and ICMP" polling option to gather data from UCS controllers, chassis, blades, and rack servers. For fabric interconnects, the polling method must be SNMP. All SNMP versions are supported. |
| Cisco UCS Manager credentials |
The credentials used to access the UCS Manager web portal and monitor B-series or C-series blade servers. UCS uses Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). The related account requires a role with sufficient Read access to monitor UCS devices. See UCS Management Programming Guides for details (© 2022 Cisco DevNet, available at https://developer.cisco.com/, obtained on May 17, 2022.) |
| UCS listening port |
The port on which the UCS Manager listens to devices, as configured in the UCS Manager web portal. Default values are 80 for HTTP and 443 for HTTPS. |
| API access | The SolarWinds Platform main polling engine or Additional Polling Engine (APE) — whichever type polls the node — must have access to the UCS API. |
| Fabric interconnects |
Verify that fiber interconnects have external IP addresses. If the external gateway, external IP address, or external mask are set to 0.0.0.0, update the IP address.
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