Host Template: Infrastructure - Cisco UCS - Chassis

Overview Copied

Monitor your Cisco UCS Chassis with metrics for overall health, usage information and a detailed summary of faults.

This Host Template includes the following Service Checks:

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See details about Monitoring Plugin thresholds here.

Usage Instructions Copied

Please review the overall Infrastructure - Cisco UCS Opspack documentation for details on prerequisites, known issues, and other necessary configurations that apply to all Host Templates in the Opspack.

Add this Host Template Copied

Add the Infrastructure - Cisco UCS - Chassis Host Template to your Opsview Monitor host. If the resource you’re monitoring has no hostname or public IP, then open the Advanced settings pane and change Host Check Command to Always assumed to be UP.

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For more information, refer to the documentation on Adding Host Templates to Hosts.

Add and configure Variables Copied

The Service Checks in this Host Template use the following variables, and they will be added to your Opsview Monitor instance alongside the Host Template:

• UCS_CREDENTIALS
• UCS_CHASSIS_NAME
• UCS_CERTIFICATES
• UCS_FAULT_SETTINGS

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For more information, refer to the documentation on Adding Variables to Hosts.

Apply Changes Copied

Apply Changes and the system will now be monitored:

Available Variables Copied

UCS_CREDENTIALS Copied

The Value is not used and therefore can be set to anything. Override the arguments with your credentials.

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UCS_CHASSIS_NAME Copied

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UCS_FAULT_SETTINGS Copied

The Value is not used and therefore can be set to anything. Override the arguments with your settings. The fault severity must be one of; ‘critical’, ‘major’, ‘minor’, ‘warning’, ‘info’, ‘cleared’ (default: ‘major’). The fault limit, limits the number of faults displayed (default: ‘10’). Leave this blank to display all faults.

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SSL Certificates: UCS_CERTIFICATES Copied

Opsview Cloud

For Opsview Cloud customers, please contact ITRS Support for assistance with setting up certificate files, as they require Orchestrator access.

Additionally, you can use the UCS_CERTIFICATES variable to pass in your SSL certificates for use when connecting to the service provider to gather metrics:

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Plugin help Copied

Plugin: check_cisco_ucs

Secure Args

This plugin uses the Secure Args feature for argument passing.

For mode-specific help, run the plugin with the -h -m <mode> flags. This will list the required and optional Variable Arguments for that mode. The appropriate mode for each Service Check is listed here:

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