Cisco UCS is a data center server platform that unifies computing, networking, storage access, and virtualization resources into one system. Entuity management of UCS concentrates on the physical components underlying that system, e.g. chassis, servers, fabric interconnects, fabric extenders.
The Entuity UCS data model tree is as follows:
The Cisco UCS Manager is an application embedded on a Fabric Interconnect (switch). The UCS Manager places into one management domain all network objects connected to the fabric interconnects. Entuity manages UCS through the UCS Manager by polling the UCS MIBs.
The wealth of information available through the UCS MIBs makes it unfeasible to simply poll them. Instead, Entuity builds its own object tree through the Entuity discovery process, and then polls the objects in that tree. Entuity provides a high level inventory and monitors UCS fault and states.
Device Support
Entuity manages the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS):
- supports UCS Manager 1.4 onwards running on the 6100/6200 series Fabric Interconnects.
- supports UCS B-series and C-series.
- discovers and monitors the entire UCS rack through one point of entry.
- discovers chassis, fabric extenders, rack units, switches, service profiles.
- allows drill-downs within components, for example from chassis you can drill down to its fan modules, blades, PSUs.
User Interface
Entuity represents UCS in a similar way to how it represents VM Platforms and the virtualization environment (although the network objects here are physical rather than virtual). There is a top level summary (UCS Manager) from which you can drill down to related objects and from each of these related objects you may also be able to further drill down. For example, you can drill down from UCS Manager to Fan Modules to Fans.
It is the UCS Manager that is taken under Entuity management:
- UCS Manager is managed through the Ethernet Switch device type, although Entuity identifies it as a UCS Device.
- UCS Managers are available from the Explorer in the same way as other devices. All of the standard device level:
- Metrics are available, for example CPU, memory, RTT dials + graphs), events count, port icons, general info (model, polled IP, version, reboot time).
- Dashboards are available, i.e. Summary, Flow, Ports, Resources, Applications, Configuration Monitor.
The functionality available on ports polled using the UCS MIBs differs from that available on other ports. For example, different port level traps may be available, flow support is unavailable.
- On the UCS Manager Summary dashboard are tables showing related network objects, for example:
- chassis
- fabric Extenders
- rack units
- switches
- service Profiles.
If you drill down on one of these objects you can see related objects on which you can further drill down. For example, from chassis you can drill down to its Fan Modules, Blades, PSUs.
Cisco UCS Licensing
In the device licensing model, each chassis associated with a UCS Manager costs one license object, the UCS Manager is not charged. In the object licensing model each managed port costs one object license.
| Component | Object Licensing | Device Licensing |
|---|---|---|
| Fabric Interconnect running UCS Manager | 1 license credit for the device and 1 for each port (which includes both local and chassis ports). | 1 license credit. |
| UCS Chassis | 1 license credit for the device. | 1 license credit. |
| UCS Switch Ports | 0 cost (ports are already licensed through the UCS Manager). | 0 cost. |
Events and incidents
UCS Manager includes 8 UCS incidents and 40 UCS events.
Compute Blade
Compute blade attributes
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Assignment | e.g. sys/chassis-1/blade-1. |
| CPUs | |
| Cores | |
| Distinguished Name | unique name identifying the blade and its location, e.g. sys/rack-unit-1/fan-module-1-1/fan-1. |
| Ethernet Host Interfaces | |
| Manufacturer | manufacturer name. |
| Model | device model. |
| Serial Number | device serial number. |
| StormWorks ID | internal identifier of the object. |
| StormWorks Type | StormWorks object type, ComputeBlade |
| UCS Blade Index | unique identifier of the blade. |
Compute blade associations
| Association | Description |
|---|---|
| Availability | sys/chassis-1/blade-1 |
| Memory | Cisco-UCS6120 |
| Operational | org-root/ls-ESXi-1/ether-FI-B-VMkernel |
| Power | |
| Presence |
Assocation
- adaptor units.
- chassis.
- device.
- memory arrays.
- processors.
- service profiles.
- storage controllers.
Fans
Fans general attributes
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Assignment | e.g. sys/chassis-1/blade-1. |
| CPUs | |
| Cores | |
| Distinguished Name | unique name identifying the blade and its location, e.g. sys/rack-unit-1/fan-module-1-1/fan-1. |
Fans stream attributes
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Assignment | e.g. sys/chassis-1/blade-1. |
| CPUs | |
| Cores | |
| Distinguished Name | unique name identifying the blade and its location, e.g. sys/rack-unit-1/fan-module-1-1/fan-1. |
Local disk
Local disk attributes
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Block Size | |
| Configuration Policy | |
| Distinguished Name | unique name identifying the local disk and its location. |
| Manufacturer | manufacturer name. |
| Model | device model. |
| Number of Blocks | |
| Serial Number | device serial number. |
| Size | size of the local disk. |
| StormWorks ID | Entuity internal object identifier. |
| StormWorks Type | StormWorks object type, ManagementInterface. |
| UCS Local Disk Index | unique identifying number associated with the local disk, name of the local disk. |
Local disk stream attributes
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Presence | e.g. equipped. |
| Status | management interface status, e.g. operable. |
Management interface
Management interface attributes
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Access | |
| Distinguished Name | unique name identifying the blade and its location. |
| IP | IP address of this device. |
| Interface Type | indicates the interface type. |
| MAC | MAC address of this device. |
| StormWorks ID | Entuity internal object identifier. |
| StormWorks Type | StormWorks object type, ManagementInterface. |
| Subject | |
| UCS Management Interface Index | unique identifying number associated with the interface, name of the interface. |
Management interface stream attributes
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Administrative Status | current interface status set by the system administrator. |
Power supplies
Power supply attributes
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Distinguished Name | unique name identifying the power supply and its location, e.g. sys/switch-A/psu-1. |
| Manufacturer | manufacturer name. |
| Model | device model. |
| Name | name of the power supply, e.g. sys/switch-A/psu-1. |
| Revision | power supply revision level. |
| Serial Number | device serial number. |
| StormWorks ID | internal identifier of the object. |
| StormWorks Type | StormWorks object type, PowerSupplyEx. |
| Type | power supply type, e.g. Cisco Systems, Inc. N10-PAC1-550W (0). |
Power supply stream attributes
| Stream Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Operational | additional status, e.g. operable. |
| Performance | additional status, e.g. unknown. |
| Power | additional status, e.g. on. |
| Status | power supply status, e.g. OK. |
| Thermal | additional status, e.g. OK. |
| Voltage | additional status, e.g. unknown. |
Association
- device.
- switch card.
Rack unit
Rack unit attributes
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Total Memory | total physical memory on the rack unit. |
| UCS Rack Unit Distinguished | unique name identifying the UCS rack unit and its location. |
| UCS Rack Unit Instance | |
| StormWorks ID | internal identifier of the object. |
| StormWorks Type | StormWorks object type, RackUnit. |
- device.
- power supplies.
- processors.
- storage controllers.
Service profiles
Service profiles attributes
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Assignment | sys/chassis-1/blade-1. |
| Distinguished Name | unique name identifying the service profile and its location, e.g. sys/rack-unit-1/fan-module-1-1/fan-1. |
| StormWorks ID | internal identifier of the object. |
| StormWorks Type | StormWorks object type, ServiceProfile. |
| UCS Service Profile Index | UCS service profile identifier. |
Association
- compute blades.
- device.
- VNIC ethernets.
Slot
Slot attributes
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Distinguished Name | unique name identifying the slot and its location, e.g. sys/rack-unit-1/fan-module-1-1/fan-1. |
| StormWorks ID | internal identifier of the object. |
| StormWorks Type | StormWorks object type, Slot. |
Storage controller
Storage controller attributes
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Device RAID Support | indicates RAID support, e.g. yes or no. |
| Distinguished Name | unique name identifying the storage controller and its location, e.g. sys/chassis-1/blade-1/board/storage-SAS-1. |
| Manufacturer | manufacturer name, e.g. LSI Logic Symbios Logic. |
| Model | device model, e.g. SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS. |
| RAID Support | RAID support, e.g. RAID0, RAID1. |
| Revision | storage controller revision level. |
| StormWorks ID | internal identifier of the object. |
| StormWorks Type | storage controller type, e.g. SAS. |
| UCS Storage Controller Index | unique identifier for storage controller. |
Associations
- compute blade.
- device.
- local disks.
Switch card
Switch card attributes
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Description | administrator-defined name of the switch card, e.g. 20x10GE/Supervisor. |
| Distinguished Name | unique name identifying the switch blade and its location, e.g. sys/switch-A/slot-1. |
| Manufacturer | manufacturer name, Cisco Systems, Inc. |
| Model | device model. |
| Number Of Ports | number of ports. |
| Serial Number | device serial number. |
| Slot | slot identifier. |
| StormWorks ID | internal identifier of the object. |
| Version | device version number. |
Switch card stream attributes
| Stream Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Card State | status, e.g. online. |
| Operational State | status, e.g. operable. |
Association
- device.
- fan modules.
- management interfaces.
- power supplies.
- slots.
VNIC ethernet
VNIC ethernet attributes
| Stream Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Adaptor Profile | VMWare. |
| Distinguished Name | unique name identifying the VNIC ethernet and its location, e.g. org-roots/lsESXi/ether-FI-B-VMkernel. |
| Ethernet Address | ethernet address. |
| Identifier Pool | FI-B-C1. |
| MTU | maximum transmission unit for the Ethernet interface. |
| Network Control Policy | CDP_ON. |
| Network Template | CI-B-C1-VMkernel. |
| StormWorks ID | internal identifier. |
| StormWorks Type | StormWorks object type, VNICEthernet. |
| UCS VNIC Ethernet Index | unique VNIC identifier. |
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