Cisco Base Pack PowerPack Release Notes, version 211

Version 211 of the "Cisco Base Pack PowerPack" PowerPack includes updates to the PowerPack's Dynamic Applications and Device Classes.

  • Minimum Required SL1 Version: 8.7.1

Before You Install or Upgrade

Ensure that you are running version 8.7.1 or later of SL1 before installing the "Cisco Base Pack PowerPack" PowerPack.

For details on upgrading SL1, see the relevant SL1 Platform Release Notes.

Installing or Upgrading the PowerPack

By default, installing a new version of a PowerPack will overwrite 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.

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 collection errors during an upgrade, you can optionally disable collection for monitored devices before performing the following steps and re-enable collection after the upgrade.

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 collection errors during an upgrade, you can optionally disable collection for monitored devices before performing the following steps and re-enable collection after the upgrade.

To install this 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 menu and choose Import PowerPack. The Import PowerPack modal 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 PowerPack Manager page.

For more information about using this PowerPack, see the Monitoring Switches, Routers, and Firewalls with SNMP manual.

Features

This release includes the following features:

  • Dynamic Applications that collect CPU, environmental status, memory, and basic configuration data for Cisco devices
  • Event Policies that are triggered when Cisco devices meet certain status criteria
  • Device Classes for each type of Cisco device monitored
  • Sample Credentials for discovering Cisco devices using SNMP
  • A device Dashboard that displays host resource, interface, and topology information for Cisco devices

Enhancements and Addressed Issues

The following enhancements and addressed issues are included in this release:

  • A new "Cisco: IPSEC Global Ph1 Performance" Dynamic Application was added to the PowerPack. This Dynamic Application auto-aligns to devices that support the IPSEC-FLOW-MONITOR-MIB and collects performance data every five minutes.
  • The following Dynamic Applications were updated to address issues that had been causing exception errors to appear in the system log during discovery:
  • Cisco: Port Channel Configuration
  • Cisco: VSAN Configuration
  • The "Cisco: Temperature Sensor Performance" Dynamic Application was updated to ensure that it queries the oid "entSensorPrecision" to determine the appropriate number of decimal places that should be in the value and to prevent unnecessary alarms caused by incorrect decimals.
  • The "Cisco: FRU Control Configuration" Dynamic Application was updated to ensure that the module name and serial number appear in the "Cisco: FRU Config Op Status for Module is Critical" and "Cisco: FRU Config Op Status for Module is Back to Healthy" alerts.
  • The PowerPack was updated to ensure that the Null Row Option field is set to Hide Row for all Configuration Dynamic Applications.
  • Several duplicated device classes were removed from the PowerPack.
  • The Cisco Nexus device classes were updated to have pdu_packing enabled and set to 1.
  • An issue was addressed that was causing the "Cisco: FRU Control Configuration" Dynamic Application configuration report to mistakenly display the OID numbers for Model Name, Name, and Serial Number when the device returned empty rows.
  • An issue was addressed that was causing the "Cisco: FRU Control Configuration" Dynamic Application to display an incorrect "Power not ON" alert message for some devices instead of the correct "Module not OK" alert message.

Known Issues

The following known issue was found in this version of the PowerPack:

  • A known issue with versions 8.6.2.3, 8.7.0, and 8.8.0 of the ScienceLogic platform is causing false events to be triggered when configuration Dynamic Applications attempt to collect data that is not available.