Introduction

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The following sections provide an overview of ancillary Cisco UC devices and the Cisco: UC Ancillary PowerPack:

What are Ancillary Cisco UC Devices?

SL1 enables you to monitor ancillary Cisco UC devices, including Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE)-enabled devices and Cisco Emergency Responder.

CUBE is a Session Border Controller that extends Session Initiation Protocol-based voice and video connectivity between networks. It can run on a variety of Cisco routers or can be deployed virtually.

Emergency Responder supplements the emergency 9-1-1 functionality offered by Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) by helping CUCM pinpoint the location of emergency callers.

What Does the Cisco: UC Ancillary PowerPack Monitor?

To monitor ancillary UC devices using SL1, you must install the Cisco: UC Ancillary PowerPack. The PowerPack includes:

  • An example credential you can use as a template to create SSH/Key credentials to connect to the devices you want to monitor

  • Dynamic Applications to discover, model, and monitor performance metrics and/or collect configuration data for ancillary UC devices
  • Device Classes for each of the ancillary UC devices that SL1 monitors
  • Event Policies that are triggered when ancillary UC devices meet certain status criteria
  • A device dashboard that displays host resource and interface information about ancillary UC devices

Installing the Cisco: UC Ancillary PowerPack

Before completing the steps in this section, you must import and install the latest version of the Cisco: UC Ancillary PowerPack.

By default, installing a new version of a PowerPack overwrites all content from a previous version of that PowerPack that has already been installed on the target system. You can use the Enable Selective PowerPack Field Protection setting in the Behavior Settings page (System > Settings > Behavior) to prevent new PowerPacks from overwriting local changes for some commonly customized fields. For more information, see the section on Global Settings.

Ensure that you are running version 12.1.2 or later of SL1 before installing this PowerPack. For details on upgrading SL1, see the relevant SL1 Platform Release Notes.

To download and install the PowerPack:

  1. Search for and download the PowerPack from the PowerPacks page (Product Downloads > PowerPacks & SyncPacks) at the ScienceLogic Support Site.
  2. In SL1, go to the PowerPacks page (System > Manage > PowerPacks).
  3. Click the Actions button and choose Import PowerPack. The Import PowerPack dialog box appears.
  4. Click [Browse] and navigate to the PowerPack file from step 1.
  5. Select the PowerPack file and click Import. The PowerPack Installer modal displays a list of the PowerPack contents.
  6. Click Install. The PowerPack is added to the PowerPacks page.

If you exit the PowerPack Installer modal without installing the imported PowerPack, the imported PowerPack will not appear in the PowerPacks page. However, the imported PowerPack will appear in the Imported PowerPacks modal. This page appears when you click the Actions menu and select Install PowerPack.