Release Notes for Cisco IMC Management Pack,
Release 1.x
For Microsoft System Center 2012, 2012 SP1 and 2012 R2, Operations Manager
First Published: October, 2013
Last Updated: March 2015
This document describes system requirements, key features, known issues, and workarounds for Cisco
IMC Management Pack, Release 1.x for Microsoft System Center 2012, 2012 SP1 and 2012 R2,
Operations Manager. 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/c-series-doc.
Make sure to review other available documentation on Cisco.com to obtain current information on Cisco
IMC Management Pack, Release 1.x.
Contents
This document includes the following sections:
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Introduction, page 2
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Key Features, page 4
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Upgrading the Management Pack, page 5
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Known Limitations and Deployment Suggestions, page 5
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Open Caveats, page 5
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Related Documentation, page 7
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Revision History
Revision History
Table 1 shows the revision history:
Table 1
Online History Changes
Release
Date
Description
1.0.1
October, 2013
Updated Release notes for Cisco UCS
C-Series Management Pack, Release
1.0.1
1.1.1
May, 2014
Updated Release notes for Cisco IMC
Management Pack, Release 1.1.1
1.2.1
March, 2015
Updated Release notes for Cisco IMC
Management Pack, Release 1.2.1
Introduction
Microsoft 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 information
about the state, health, and performance of the Cisco Server components. It also provides alerts
generated according to the availability, performance, configuration, or the identified security risks.
The Cisco IMC Management Pack is a definition file that contains predefined monitoring settings that
enables an agent to monitor a specific service or an application in Operations Manager. These predefined
settings allow Operations Manager to automatically detect and begin monitoring services and
applications. It addition, the management pack also consists of a knowledge base that contains error and
troubleshooting information, alerts, and reports to help you correct the problems detected in Cisco
servers.
The management pack allows you visibility into the health, performance and availability of Cisco servers
through a single, familiar, and easy-to- use-interface. This management pack allows you to group a set
of servers and monitor them as a single entity. The IMC Group State View allows you to see the overall
health state of all the groups that you monitor. The management pack contains rules that monitor servers.
System Requirements
Before installing Cisco IMC Management Pack, ensure the system meets or exceeds the following
minimum requirements:
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Software Requirements, page 2
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Key Features, page 4
System Requirements
This section describes the system requirements to install and configure the Cisco IMC Management
Pack.
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System Requirements
Hardware
Ensure that the following hardware requirements are met:
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Processor Architecture—64-bit dual-core processor 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 MBps or faster
Operating System
Ensure that the 64-bit version of the following operating systems are installed with the latest service
packs:
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Windows Server 2008 R2
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Windows Server 2012
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Windows Server 2012 R2.
Software
Ensure that the following software versions are installed on the server:
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Windows PowerShell 3.0 or above
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.NET Framework 4 or above
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System Center 2012 or 2012 SP1 or 2012 R2, Operations Manager management server and
operations console
Supported Cisco IMC Management Pack Versions
The following table shows the Cisco IMC Management Pack versions for the corresponding Cisco IMC
Management Pack releases:
Cisco IMC Release
Cisco IMC Management Pack Version
Release 1.0.1
For C-Series Servers: Cisco IMC version 1.5(1f)
or higher
Release 1.1.1
Release 1.2.1
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For C-Series Servers: Cisco IMC version
1.5(4) or higher
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For E-Series Servers: Cisco IMC version
2.2(1) or higher
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For C-Series Servers: Cisco IMC version
1.5(4) or higher
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For E-Series Servers: Cisco IMC version
2.2(1) or higher
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Key Features
Key Features
This section briefly describes the key features introduced in Cisco IMC Management Pack. For
detailed information about the features listed, see the documents listed in the Related Documentation
section.
Cisco IMC Management Pack, Release 1.2.1
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Support for new faults in Cisco IMC releases 2.0(2) and 2.0(3)
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Supports cmdlets for the following operations:
– Add IMC group, Update IMC group
– Get/Enable/Disable IMC rules in the management pack.
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Dedicated Service Machine for Cisco IMC Group Monitoring
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Supports upgrade from v1.1 and v1.0
Cisco IMC Management Pack, Release 1.1.1
This section includes the following key features in Release 1.1.1:
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Support for C-Series & E-Series in a single Management Pack.
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Profile or Account association in Add Monitoring Wizard while creating Groups.
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Silent or unattended Installation.
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Cisco IMC Management Service Log.
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Cisco IMC Technical Support Log.
Cisco UCS C-Series Management Pack, Release 1.0.1
This section includes the following key features in Release 1.0.1:
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Support for registering multiple Cisco servers simultaneously.
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Support to discover Cisco servers by IP Addresses, IP Range, Combination of both IP Addresses and
IP Ranges, and through Subnet Mask.
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Support to group Cisco servers and monitor them together.
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C-Series Group State View to see the overall health state of all the groups that are being monitored.
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Health monitoring, and alerts for each group as well as for each individual server.
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Support for launching Cisco IMC web interface for a server from the management pack.
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Support for launching KVM Console on a server from the management pack.
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Support for auto resolution of faults in System Center Operations Manager, when
cleared/acknowledged by the Administrator from the server.
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Support for configuration of faults (Enable/Disable faults, Modify fault severity, and so on) using
rules.
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Additional information and recommended actions to be taken for each fault available
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Upgrading the Management Pack
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Support to generate alerts for server discovery failure and server fault collection failure.
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Support for monitoring of servers located behind a proxy server. However, the details of proxy
server should be configured during discovery to use this feature.
Upgrading the Management Pack
Upgrading the Management Pack to Release 1.2.1
To upgrade Cisco UCS C-Series Management Pack Release 1.0.1 and 1.1.1 to the latest Management
Pack, follow these steps:
Step 1
Run the installer of Cisco IMC Management Pack Release 1.2.1 on the Management Server where the
previous release of the management pack was installed.
Step 2
When previous installation is detected, click Upgrade. Management pack will be upgraded to Cisco
IMC Management Pack Release 1.2.1.
Step 3
Once the installation is complete, check the Update existing IMC instances check box and click Finish.
Step 4
Run the installer of the Cisco IMC Management Pack Release 1.2.1 on each management server where
Cisco UCS C-series Management service or Cisco IMC Management service is installed to upgrade the
management service to 1.2.1.
Note
The Update existing IMC instances check box is checked by default. Upon completing installation, the
PowerShell window is displayed where the existing IMC instances in the Cisco IMC Management Pack
are updated.
Known Limitations and Deployment Suggestions
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For Release 1.1.1, the Cisco IMC Management Pack has been lab tested with one Cisco UCS
Management Service to handle a load of monitoring ~1400 Servers.
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For Release 1.0.1, the Cisco UCS C-Series Management Pack has been lab tested with one Cisco
UCS Management Service to handle a load of monitoring ~500 Servers
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For monitoring Cisco servers located in the Gateway Server domain, there should be connectivity
from Management Servers to Cisco servers either directly or through a proxy server.
Open Caveats
This section lists the open caveats in Cisco IMC Management Pack, and contains the following topic:
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Release 1.2.1, page 6
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Release 1.1.1, page 6
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Open Caveats
Release 1.2.1
This section lists the open caveats for Release 1.2.1.
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CSCus92500
Symptom Assuming, the operating system is installed in C:\. While installing management pack, if -a
option is used in the command, the binaries and other files are installed in the C:\.
Workaround Use -i option only to install the Management Pack. For example:
msiexec -i "Cisco.IMC.MP.Setup.v1.2.1-x64.msi" -l*v <logfilename>
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CSCus92517
Symptom When installing IMC management pack version 1.2(1) on Windows Server 2012, it fails with
the following error message:
You must have administrator privileges to install Cisco IMC Management Pack (v1.2.1)
Workaround Add installer user directly to a local administrators group, and not as a member of nested
groups.
Release 1.1.1
This section lists the open caveats for Release 1.1.1.
Symptom Once the group of Cisco servers is added for monitoring, it might take ~ 6 hours for Cisco
server to appear.
Workaround Either wait till the server appears in SCOM or override the object discovery “IMC
Discovery” to run at a lower interval than the default 6 hours. Once the server is discovered in SCOM,
thereafter normal monitoring of server continues with faults collected every 12 minutes.
Symptom For each of the following faults, two faults display in Cisco IMC:
• F0174
• F0409
• F0410
• F0411
Workaround None. (This issue is resolved in, Release 1.2.1.)
Symptom Multiple miscellaneous alerts might appear in SCOM when the Management Pack fails to
connect the server during the fault collection cycle or inventory collection cycle.The failure can occur
due to any of the following:
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Login failure
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Model validation
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Ping failure
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Version validation
Workaround Verify all the faults (Ping Failure, Login Failure, Model Validation, Version Validation) are
resolved. After the failures are resolved, the server faults from Cisco IMC appear in SCOM. (This issue
is resolved in, Release 1.2.1.)
Related Documentation
For more information, you can access related documents from the following link:
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Cisco UCS Documentation Roadmap
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Cisco IMC Management Pack User Guide
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