Release Notes for Cisco UCS Management Pack,
Release 2.6
For Microsoft System Center 2012, 2012 SP1 and 2012 R2 - Operations Manager
First Published: May 2013
Last Updated: December 2013
Part Number: OL-29607-02
This document describes the system requirements, new features, information about the images, resolved
caveats, known caveats, and workarounds for Cisco UCS Management Pack, Release 2.6 for Microsoft
System Center Operations Manager, 2012, 2012 SP1 and 2012 R2. This document also includes current
information that became available after the technical documentation was published.
Use these release notes as a supplement with the other documents listed in the documentation roadmap
http://www.cisco.com/go/unifiedcomputing/b-series-doc.
Make sure to review other available documentation on Cisco.com to obtain current information on
Cisco UCS Management Pack, Release 2.6.
Table 1 shows the online change history for this document.
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Revision
OL-29607-01 A0
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Online History Change
Date
Description
May 2013
Created Release Notes for Cisco UCS Management Pack,
Release 2.6
December 2013 Created Release Notes for Cisco UCS Management Pack,
Release 2.6.2
Contents
This document includes the following sections:
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Introduction, page 2
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Introduction
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New Features, page 3
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Known Limitations for Release 2.6, page 5
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Open Caveats for Release 2.6, page 5
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Cisco Communities, page 6
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Related Documentation, page 6
Introduction
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a cross-platform data center management server for
operating systems and hypervisors. SCOM uses a single interface that shows the state, health, and
performance information of computer systems. It also provides alerts that are generated according to
availability, performance, configuration, or identified security risks. This tool works with Microsoft
Windows Server and UNIX-based hosts.
A management pack is a definition file that contains predefined monitoring settings that enable an agent
to monitor a specific service or application in SCOM. The predefined settings include discovery
information that allows SCOM to automatically detect and begin monitoring services and applications.
It also consists of a knowledge base that contains error and troubleshooting information, alerts, and
reports to help you correct problems detected in the environment.
Cisco UCS Management Pack, Release 2.6 provides you visibility into the health, performance, and
availability of Cisco UCS through a single, familiar, and easy-to-use interface. The management pack
contains rules that monitor, for example, chassis, blade servers, rack servers, and service profiles across
multiple Cisco UCS systems.
System Requirements
Before installing Cisco UCS Management Pack, ensure the system meets or exceeds the following
minimum requirements:
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Software Requirements, page 2
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Supported Cisco UCS Manager Releases, page 2
Software Requirements
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Windows PowerShell 2.0 or above
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.NET Framework 4 or above
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System Center Operations Manager 2012 (with Update Rollout 2 or above) or 2012 SP1 or 2012 R2
Supported Cisco UCS Manager Releases
Cisco UCS Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is compatible with
Cisco UCS Manager, Release 1.4 or later.
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New Features
New Features
This section briefly describes the new features introduced in Cisco UCS Management Pack, for various
2.6 releases. For detailed information about the features listed, see the documents listed in the Cisco
Communities section.
Release 2.6.2
Cisco UCS Management Pack, Release 2.6.2 includes the following new features:
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Support for Windows 2012 R2, page 3
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Support for SCOM 2012 R2 and UCSM release 2.2 (1), page 3
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Diagnostic Logging Support, page 3
Support for Windows 2012 R2
This release supports installation on Windows 2012 R2 operating system along with other flavors which
were support by its predecessor Cisco UCSM SCOM Management Pack, Release 2.6.1.
Support for SCOM 2012 R2 and UCSM release 2.2 (1)
Cisco UCSM SCOM Management Pack, Release 2.6.2 has been verified to work with SCOM 2012 R2,
SCOM 2012 and 2012 SP1. It has also been verified with the latest release of Cicso UCS Manager,
Release 2.2 (1).
Diagnostic Logging Support
Management Pack, release 2.6.2 supports the Cisco UCS Management Service level diagnostics error
logging capability. After upgrading the Management Pack to release 2.6.2, error logging will
automatically start on the existing UCSMs and the newly added ones. For each UCSM that is being
monitored by SCOM separate logs are created and stored.
Note
Cisco UCSM SCOM Management Pack, Release 2.6.2 supports upgrade from its predecessor Cisco
UCSM SCOM Management Pack, Release 2.6.1. For more information, refer to the user guide in the
Cisco Communities section.
Release 2.6
This section briefly describes the new features introduced in Cisco UCS Management Pack, Release 2.6.
For detailed information about the features listed, see the documents listed in the Cisco Communities
section.
Cisco UCS Management Pack, Release 2.6 includes the following new features:
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Cisco UCS Management Service, page 4
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Severity Mapping, page 4
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Severity Remapping, page 4
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New Features
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Fault Filters, page 4
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Auto-Resolution of Faults, page 4
Cisco UCS Management Service
Cisco UCS Management Service is a new component in Cisco UCS Management Pack. This
management service acts as an agent between the management pack and Cisco UCS domains. It
maintains the communication sessions for the Cisco UCS domains that are registered with it. Cisco UCS
Management Service should be installed on the management servers. You can install multiple instances
of Cisco UCS Management Service if the deployment includes a resource pool of management servers.
Severity Mapping
Enhancements to severity mapping provide you with additional flexibility to configure the mapping
between severity levels in Cisco UCS and SCOM.
Severity Remapping
Severity remapping enables you to override the existing severity mapping for specific filters, per Cisco
UCS domain, based on criteria that you define.
Fault Filters
You can configure filters to prevent unwanted or undesirable faults from a Cisco UCS domain from being
shown in the Alerts view of SCOM. Filters provide the capability to create complex conditions using
AND OR groups.
You can also nest groups to create complex conditions based on the needs of your business.
Auto-Resolution of Faults
Actions performed on faults by administrators in Cisco UCS Manager, such as clearing faults or
acknowledging faults, are automatically resolved by Cisco UCS Management Pack and reflected in the
Faults view of the SCOM. Auto-resolution of faults is enabled by default.
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Resolved Caveats
Resolved Caveats
Resolved Caveats for Release 2.6.2
Bug ID
Symptom
CSCul43164
When the number of chassis in a UCS exceeds nine, then the blades of chassis 10,
chassis 11, chassis 12 and so on are shown as blades of chassis 1.
CSCul24411
When Populate Cache scripts run from the Management Pack a missing dll file error
occurred in C:\Windows\Temp directory. Because of this you were not able to
monitor the UCS using SCOM.
Known Limitations for Release 2.6
Cisco UCS Management Pack, Release 2.6. has the following limitations:
A direct upgrade from Cisco UCS Management Pack, Release 2.5 for SCOM is not supported. For
information on how to upgrade from Release 2.5, see the Cisco UCS Management Pack User Guide,
Release 2.6 for Microsoft System Center 2012, 2012 SP1 and 2012 R2 - Operations Manager
Note
Known limitations may not exist in future releases. Be sure to check current software release notes for
the most up-to-date information.
Open Caveats for Release 2.6
This release has no known open caveats.
Sizing Requirement
This section describes the sizing requirement for the Cisco UCSM SCOM Management Pack v2.6.
Following is the system hardware requirement:
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Management Pack specific hardware requirement:
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Processor Architecture: x64 only having 2-cores or above
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Memory: 8 GB or higher
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Disk space: 25 MB
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Network connection: 1 MB/sec or faster
The SCOM system requirements is defined at:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn249696.aspx#BKMK_Hardware
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Deployment Scenario
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Management Server: 2
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Cisco UCS Management Service: 1
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Number of monitored Blades: more than 350
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Number of monitored component: more than 14000
Cisco UCSM SCOM Management Pack v2.6 has been tested in the lab with two management servers
and one Cisco UCS Management Service to successfully monitor ~350+ blades with ~14000+
components.
Hardware requirement mentioned above is the minimum requirement to achieve monitoring capability.
This data could be used to identify the sizing requirement for other environments.
Cisco Communities
Cisco Communities is a platform to discuss, share and learn about the Cisco Products and Technologies.
For blogs, discussion forums and documents related to UCS integrations with partner ecosystem, visit
https://communities.cisco.com/ucsintegrations
Related Documentation
For more information, you can access related documents from the following links:
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Cisco UCS Documentation Roadmap
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Cisco UCS Management Pack User Guide, Release 2.6 for Microsoft System Center 2012, 2012 SP1
and 2012 R2 - Operations Manager
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