Monitor Cisco UCS C-Series rack server hardware health and performance, including CPU, memory, storage, power, and network adapters.
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Overview
Monitor your Cisco UCS C-Series devices with data collected through the UCS Manager XML API.
This extension collects infrastructure metrics and events for Cisco UCS C-Series hardware components, including CPU, fan modules, fans, memory, storage, power supplies, network adapters, and VIC interfaces.
Use cases
Monitor hardware health/state signals for CPUs, fan modules/fans, memory arrays/units, storage controllers, local disks, RAID batteries, power supplies, and virtual drives.
Observe connectivity and status for adapters, external interfaces, vHBAs, and vNICs.
Detect UCS faults and raise Dynatrace error events for faster issue triage.
Compatibility information
Dynatrace version 1.318+
Cisco UCS C-Series device with access to the Cisco UCS Manager XML API.
Requirements
A user account with read-only privileges for UCS Manager XML API queries, provided to the extension as username/password.
Network access from ActiveGate to the UCS endpoint.
Ability for the configured user to perform API operations: aaaLogin, configResolveClass, aaaLogout.
The specific classes queried depend on enabled feature sets:
C-Series Faults: faultInst
C-Series CPU: processorUnit
C-Series External Interface: networkAdapterEthIf
C-Series Fan Module / C-Series Fan Module (voltage): equipmentFanModule
C-Series Fan / C-Series Fan (voltage): equipmentFan
C-Series Local Disk / C-Series Local Disk (predictive failure count): storageLocalDisk
C-Series Memory Array: memoryArray
C-Series Memory Unit: memoryUnit
C-Series Network Adapter: networkAdapterUnit
C-Series Power Supply / C-Series Power Supply (voltage): equipmentPsu
C-Series Raid Battery: storageRaidBattery
C-Series Storage Controller: storageController
C-Series VIC Adapter: adaptorUnit
C-Series VIC External Interface: adaptorExtEthIf
C-Series VIC vHBA: adaptorHostFcIf
C-Series VIC vNIC: adaptorHostEthIf
C-Series Virtual Drive: storageVirtualDrive
Activation and setup
Activate the extension in your environment from Dynatrace Hub, configure connection details for your UCS endpoint, and select the feature sets you want to collect.
Details
The extension package contains:
Overview dashboards (Classic & Platform)
Analysis screens integrated with Infrastructure & Operations
Unified analysis pages
Custom topology types extracted from metric dimensions:
Cisco UCS C-Series CPU
Cisco UCS C-Series External Interface
Cisco UCS C-Series Fan Module
Cisco UCS C-Series Fan
Cisco UCS C-Series Local Disk
Cisco UCS C-Series Memory Array
Cisco UCS C-Series Memory Unit
Cisco UCS C-Series Network Adapter
Cisco UCS C-Series Power Supply
Cisco UCS C-Series Raid Battery
Cisco UCS C-Series Storage Controller
Cisco UCS C-Series VIC Adapter
Cisco UCS C-Series VIC External Interface
Cisco UCS C-Series VIC vHBA
Cisco UCS C-Series VIC vNIC
Cisco UCS C-Series Virtual Drive
Cisco UCS C-Series Rack
Licensing and costs
There is no charge to use the extension. You are only charged for the data that the extension ingests.
The Cisco UCS C-Series extension ingests custom metrics, which consume Davis Data Units (DDUs) (Dynatrace classic license) or Metrics powered by Grail (DPS), according to your license model.
The following formula provides the number of metric data points per minute, assuming all feature sets are enabled and the extension runs every minute.
(2 * # of CPUs)
+ (1 * # of External Interfaces)
+ (5 * # of Fan Modules)
+ (5 * # of Fans)
+ (5 * # of Local Disks)
+ (4 * # of Memory Arrays)
+ (2 * # of Memory Units)
+ (1 * # of Network Adapters)
+ (5 * # of Power Supplies)
+ (4 * # of Raid Batteries)
+ (1 * # of Storage Controllers)
+ (1 * # of VIC Adapters)
+ (1 * # of VIC External Interfaces)
+ (1 * # of VIC vHBAs)
+ (1 * # of VIC vNICs)
+ (2 * # of Virtual Drives)
Dynatrace Platform Subscription
In the Dynatrace Platform Subscription, metric ingestion consumes Metrics powered by Grail according to the number of ingested metric data points.
To calculate the approximate yearly consumption, apply the following calculation: <metric data points per minute> * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 365 days.
Dynatrace classic license
In the classic licensing model, metric ingestion consumes Davis Data Units (DDUs) at the rate of .001 DDUs per metric data point. Multiply the above formula for annual data points by .001 to estimate annual DDU usage.
The DDU cost above does not include any possible log events or custom events that are triggered by the extension. For more information, see DDU events.
Feature sets
C-Series Power Supply
Metric name
Metric key
Description
C-Series Power Supply Unit Presence
ciscoucs.c_series.powerSupply.presence
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C-Series Power Supply Operability
ciscoucs.c_series.powerSupply.operability
—
C-Series Power Supply Unit Power
ciscoucs.c_series.powerSupply.power
—
C-Series Power Supply Unit Thermal
ciscoucs.c_series.powerSupply.thermal
—
C-Series Power Supply Unit Voltage
ciscoucs.c_series.powerSupply.voltage
—
C-Series Memory Array
Metric name
Metric key
Description
C-Series Memory Array Current Capacity
ciscoucs.c_series.memoryArray.currCapacity
This metric returns a value of -1 when the current capacity is not available
C-Series Memory Array Max Devices
ciscoucs.c_series.memoryArray.maxDevices
This metric returns a value of -1 when the max device count is not available
C-Series Memory Array Populated
ciscoucs.c_series.memoryArray.populated
This metric returns a value of -1 when the populated count is not available
C-Series Memory Array Presence
ciscoucs.c_series.memoryArray.presence
—
C-Series Fan Module
Metric name
Metric key
Description
C-Series Fan Module Presence
ciscoucs.c_series.fanModule.presence
—
C-Series Fan Module Power
ciscoucs.c_series.fanModule.power
—
C-Series Fan Module Thermal
ciscoucs.c_series.fanModule.thermal
—
C-Series Fan Module Operability
ciscoucs.c_series.fanModule.operability
—
C-Series Fan Module Voltage
ciscoucs.c_series.fanModule.voltage
—
C-Series Memory Unit
Metric name
Metric key
Description
C-Series Memory Unit Operability
ciscoucs.c_series.memoryUnit.operability
—
C-Series Memory Unit Presence
ciscoucs.c_series.memoryUnit.presence
—
C-Series CPU
Metric name
Metric key
Description
C-Series CPU Presence
ciscoucs.c_series.cpu.presence
—
C-Series CPU Operational State
ciscoucs.c_series.cpu.operState
—
C-Series Fan
Metric name
Metric key
Description
C-Series Fan Power
ciscoucs.c_series.fan.power
—
C-Series Fan Thermal
ciscoucs.c_series.fan.thermal
—
C-Series Fan Presence
ciscoucs.c_series.fan.presence
—
C-Series Fan Operability
ciscoucs.c_series.fan.operability
—
C-Series Fan Voltage
ciscoucs.c_series.fan.voltage
—
C-Series Network Adapter
Metric name
Metric key
Description
C-Series Network Adapter Properties
ciscoucs.c_series.networkAdapter.properties
This metric is used only to push properties as dimensions and has a constant value of 1.
C-Series VIC Adapter
Metric name
Metric key
Description
C-Series VIC Adapter Presence
ciscoucs.c_series.vicAdapter.presence
—
C-Series Virtual Drive
Metric name
Metric key
Description
C-Series Virtual Drive State
ciscoucs.c_series.virtualDrive.driveState
—
C-Series Virtual Drive Health
ciscoucs.c_series.virtualDrive.health
—
C-Series External Interface
Metric name
Metric key
Description
C-Series External Interface Properties
ciscoucs.c_series.externalInterface.properties
This metric is used only to push properties as dimensions and has a constant value of 1.
C-Series Faults
Metric name
Metric key
Description
C-Series Faults
ciscoucs.c_series.faults
This metric is just a placeholder and does not exist.
C-Series Local Disk
Metric name
Metric key
Description
C-Series Local Disk
ciscoucs.c_series.localDisk.coercedSize
This metric returns a value of -1 when the size is not available
C-Series Local Disk Drive State
ciscoucs.c_series.localDisk.driveState
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C-Series Local Disk Link Speed
ciscoucs.c_series.localDisk.linkSpeed
This metric returns a value of -1 when the speed is not available
Infrastructure & Operations