Cisco: UCS Director PowerPack Release Notes, version 104

Version 104 of the Cisco: UCS Director PowerPack includes a new Event Policy for service request failures.

  • Minimum Required SL1 Version: 8.1.0

Before You Install or Upgrade

Ensure that you are running version 8.1.0 or later of SL1 before installing "Cisco: UCS Director" PowerPack version 104.

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

Installation or Upgrade Process

To install version 104 of the Cisco: UCS Director PowerPack, perform the following steps:

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.

To install this PowerPack:

  1. Familiarize yourself with the Known Issues for this release.
  2. See the Before You Install or Upgrade section. If you have not done so already, upgrade your system to the 8.1.0 or later release.
  3. Download the "Cisco: UCS Director" version 104PowerPack from the Support Site to a local computer.
  4. Go to the PowerPack Manager page (System > Manage > PowerPacks). Click the Actions menu and choose Import PowerPack. When prompted, import "Cisco: UCS Director" version 104.
  5. Click the Install button. For details on installing PowerPacks, see the chapter on Installing a PowerPack in the PowerPacks manual.

See the manual Monitoring Cisco UCS Director for instructions on using the new PowerPack.

Features

This release includes the following features:

  • Dynamic Applications (23) that enable the ScienceLogic platform to discover, model, and monitor Cisco UCS Director devices
  • Event Policies (27) that are triggered when Cisco UCS Director component devices meet certain status criteria
  • Device Classes (11) for each type of Cisco UCS Director component device monitored
  • A sample credential (1) for discovering Cisco UCS Director component devices

Enhancements and Issues Addressed

The following enhancements and addressed issues are included in version 104 of the "Cisco: UCS Director" PowerPack:

  • A new "Cisco: UCSD Service Request Failure" Event Policy was added to the PowerPack. This event is triggered when a service request fails to complete, and the event automatically clears 1.5 hours later. With this update, the existing "Cisco: UCSD Service Request Failed" Event Policy was disabled.

Known Issues

This release has no known issues.