Cisco: Catalyst Center PowerPack Release Notes, version 100

Version 100 of the "Cisco: Catalyst Center" PowerPack introduces the ability to discover and monitor Cisco Catalyst devices.

  • Minimum Required Skylar One (SL1) Version: 12.3.1

Before You Install or Upgrade

Ensure that you are running version 12.3.1 or later of Skylar One before installing the "Cisco: Catalyst Center" PowerPack.

For details on upgrading Skylar One, see the relevant Skylar One Platform Release Notes.

Installing or Upgrading the PowerPack

If you are currently using the Dynamic Applications in this PowerPack to monitor devices, collection errors might occur for one or two polling cycles during the installation of a new version. To prevent these errors, disable collection for the monitored devices before you complete the following steps. You can then re-enable collection after the upgrade completes.

To install this PowerPack:

  1. Search for and download the PowerPack from the PowerPacks page at the ScienceLogic Support Center (Skylar One > PowerPacks).
  2. In Skylar One, go to the PowerPacks page (System > Manage > PowerPacks).
  3. Click the Actions menu and select Import PowerPack. The Import PowerPack modal appears.
  4. Click Browse and go 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 appears on the PowerPack Manager page.

By default, installing a new version of a PowerPack overwrites all content in 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 the new version of the PowerPack from overwriting local changes for some commonly customized fields.

For more information about using the PowerPack, see the Monitoring Cisco Catalyst Center manual.

Features

This release includes the following features:

  • Dynamic Applications to discover and monitor Cisco Catalyst devices:
    • Cisco: Catalyst Center Applications
    • Cisco: Catalyst Center Device Consumer Configuration
    • Cisco: Catalyst Center Device Consumer Performance
    • Cisco: Catalyst Center Devices Producer Performance
    • Cisco: Catalyst Center Licenses Configuration
    • Cisco: Catalyst Center Membership Consumer Discovery
    • Cisco: Catalyst Center Membership Producer Performance
    • Cisco: Catalyst Center Nodes Configuration
    • Cisco: Catalyst Center Release Summary
    • Cisco: Catalyst Center Site Consumer Configuration
    • Cisco: Catalyst Center Site Health Consumer Performance
    • Cisco: Catalyst Center Site Health Producer Performance
    • Cisco: Catalyst Center Sites Consumer Discovery
    • Cisco: Catalyst Center Sites Producer Discovery
    • Cisco: Catalyst Center Tags Configuration
    • Cisco: Catalyst Center Vlan
  • Device classes for each type of Cisco Catalyst device that Skylar One monitors.
  • Sample credentials you can use as templates to monitor Cisco Catalyst deployments.
  • This PowerPack is compatible with Python 3.11.

Known Issues

There are no known issues that affect version 100 of the "Cisco: Catalyst Center" PowerPack.