Configuring the Cisco UCS agent
The Monitoring Agent for Cisco UCS monitors the Cisco UCS Virtual Infrastructure by connecting to the Cisco UCSM. You must configure the Cisco UCS agent so that the agent can collect the Cisco UCS data.
Before you begin
- Review the hardware and software prerequisites.
- Ensure that the user, who connects to the Cisco UCSM infrastructure, has aaa or administrator privileges. Use an existing user ID, which has aaa or administrator privileges, or create a new user ID.
- If the Cisco UCS agent is configured to communicate with its Cisco UCS data sources that use the SSL agent, add the SSL certificate of each data source to the certificate truststore of the agent. For more information about enabling SSL communication with Cisco UCS data sources, see Enabling SSL communication with Cisco UCS data sources.
About this task
The Cisco UCS agent is a multiple instance agent. You must create the first instance, and start the agent manually.
The configuration attributes define which Cisco UCS Infrastructure is monitored. The attributes define a connection to Cisco UCSM 1.4, or later. You can configure more than one instance of the monitoring agent on a remote monitoring host system. You can also create separate instances to monitor specific Cisco UCS Infrastructure.
After the Cisco UCS agent
is installed, you can start the agent. However, you must manually configure the agent to view data
for all the agent attributes.
- To configure the agent on Windows systems, you can use the IBM Performance Management window or the silent response file.
- To configure the agent on Linux systems, you can run the script and respond to prompts, or use the silent response file.