I had a requirement to add some CICM controllers of UCS-C servers to Solarwinds Orion for monitoring.
While this seems as an "easy" task, I found a lot of bumps on my way.
The recipe that made it work (in an acceptable level) was:
- In CIMC add an SNMP user and configure SNMP properties.
- Also in CIMC enable the XMP API Access
- When adding the node use SNMPv3 (SHA & AES128)
- Also check the UCS manager discovery option (CIMC login credentials)
- No resources discovered at that time
- Downloaded an Custom Poller (UnPD) from Solarwinds / Thwack regarding UCS poller
- Used the Poller manager application on Solarwinds server to add and assign this to my nodes
- Then I went ahead and created my custom views in the Nodes Section to gain visibility on this values.
