Cisco ucs director powershell console integration guide. Cisco ucs powertool suite is a powershell module that helps automate all aspects of cisco ucs manager, cisco ucs central, and cisco. Simplifying cisco ucs management with microsoft powershell. For ucs, the prework that was performed was racking, stacking, and cabling the physical ucs gear and performing an initial configuration of ucs manager. It can help you to get an easy overview of ucs installations after. It also helps automate server, network, storage, and hypervisor management.
This suite of tools can also be downloaded via the powershell gallery. On the storage side, a 200 gb lun was created and zoned to a range of 18 wwpns as well, of course this could also have been done with powershell snapins from some of the storage vendors if. A few years ago, i created the first version of the cisco ucs inventory script uis, a powershell script to read all the configuration and environment data from a ucs manager. Cisco ucs director powershell api getting started guide. However, it does not have cmdlets for the following managed objects introduced for cisco ucs fabric interconnect 6324 in cisco ucs manager, release 3. With cisco ucs powertool, it operations teams can tie together the management of storage, compute, and software applications into custom, endtoend management solutions. So once i found out that the vxblock was configured to contain continue reading cisco ucs powertools and powershell. Dont forget, this as with all the other vcheck editions is a community project so you can add your own checks very easily in. Cisco ucs powershell command recording how to with cisco. See downloading cisco ucs director powershell agent. Cisco has really gone all out to offer a complete automation interface in their ucs platform.
Ive recently deployed the cisco ucs manager plugin for vcenter. Cisco ucs powertool scripts using powershell site fixed. On june 1, 2011, cisco released the beta version of the unified computing system manager powershell toolkit with dozens of cmdlets to help automate. Cisco releases dozens of free powershell scripts to manage. In the execute powershell command dialog box, in addition to providing the ip address, user credentials of the vm, and the server domain, enter the following command in the commandsscripts field. I paused the first time i heard that to do some mental math, and then i told myself, i have to script that. Scripting ucs storage configs for cisco mds with powershell. A truly better together story is the pairing of two strong management utilities cisco ucs managers powertool offering with microsofts powershell solution. A great way to learn using the cisco ucs powershell toolkit is downloading the cisco ucs emulator.
We will look at the cli option first as its also useful if you dont have powershell access. The cisco ucs powertool module for powershell provides users a comprehensive list of. If your scripting skills isnt up to scratch, you need to weigh up the time to script vs manually performing the task. The powershell agent uses port 43891 default and it also uses a predefined authenticationaccess key to communicate with cisco ucs director. This is a virtual machine image which can be imported into vmware player or virtualbox. Cisco ucs custom resource for the windows powershell. You can integrate cisco ucs director apis with cisco ucs director powershell console for improved automation of datacenter management. This can be useful for scenarios that require resetting the cisco ucspe to a known good state after being.
Another way is via ciscos ucs powertool, a microsoft powershell addon. With my experience i would say youre able to execute about 90% of the administration tasks on the toolkit. Firstly you should download and take a look at the cisco ucs manager cli configuration guide from cisco website. Note that the file wont be unpacked, and wont include any dependencies. Cisco ucs powertool suite installation and configuration. Cisco ucs powertools and powershell as i mentioned in a previous post, we are upgrading our infrastructure and we are using dell emc vxblock. When the task is time consuming you should find a way to automate it. Cisco ucs powertool suite enables easy integration with existing it management processes and tools.
If like me youre in the business of adding cisco ucs blades in bulk you will know that copying and pasting large amounts of wwpns and zoning can be prone to errors let alone time consuming. Check your cisco ucs environment for issues with vcheck. On the powershell agent tab in cisco ucs director, click execute command option. Cisco ucs powertool suite is a powershell module that helps automate all aspects of cisco ucs manager, cisco ucs central, and cisco imc. The powershell administration tool is available as a module part of the cisco ucs powershell toolkit.
Cisco ucs director powershell console provides cmdlet wrappers for the jsonbased apis. So far this upgrade is going fairly smooth, but we are still at the very beginning of the process. Cisco ucs powertools download click here requires cisco logon. Many it organizations use microsoft powershell to automate and accelerate data center management tasks. Originally the id used to register the ucs domains only had read only access which does not.
We are pleased to announce the release of cisco ucs powertool suite vers ion 2. Cisco ucs director offers rest apis that enable applications to consume or manipulate the data stored in cisco ucs director. In this post im going to share a script i wrote that speeds up the creation of cisco mds 9000 series san switch configurations. Open windows powershell and navigate to the folder where the unzipped management pack suite file is saved. Powershell module for cisco core core module in cisco powertool suite installation options. Cisco ucs powertools and powershell notes of a scripter. On the download site for cisco ucs management partner. This free program was originally designed by cisco. The machine to run the script from must have network access to your ucs systems. Cisco ucs director powershell agent installation and. Step 7 in windows firewall, open the port that has been configured for the powershell agent the default port is 43891. Step 6 click download installer and install the powershell agent. Ucs vnic vs global mtu comparison powershell script.
For cisco ucs there is a cisco ucs powertool available which is extremely powerful. Cisco ucs powertool core suite is a set of powershell core modules for cisco ucs manager, cisco imc and cisco ucs central that helps in configuration. Cisco ucs powertool suite powershell modules for cisco. Cisco ucs powertool suite installation and configuration guide, release 2. Once you have that setup you will need to enable powershell on your workstationserver where you are executing the script from and have installed powertool. But i dont want to talk about the possibility to use a powershell toolkit as most of the enterprise vendors deliver some kind of powershell integration. Contribute to ciscoucsintersightpowershell development by creating an account on github. Powershell, python, the emulator, and all cisco ucs and cisco hyperflex products allow you take advantage of the all. Release notes for cisco ucs manager powertool, release 1. On the download site for cisco ucs management partner ecosystem software, download the cisco ucsm management pack suite file and unzip the file into a folder. Ucs management over multiple ucs domains through ucs central is as programmable and automated as the other ucs management options via ucs central powertool for ucs central, and you can also go straight to the ucs central xml api.
Cisco ucs powertool core suite for powershell core modules. This details all of the commands required to readwrite. The ucs inventory script uis is a powertool script that retrieves the full configuration of an ucs manager or multiple and displays it in a very readable and portable html file for offline use. Newucshardwareprofile cmdlet added two new mandatory parameter osvendorname and osversionname, parameter osvendorcode and osversioncode are deprecated. Script for polling multiple ucs domains and creating an html report. Cisco provides the windows powershell functionality for managing their ucs platform as a module. Powershell module for cisco ucs manager ucs manager module in cisco powertool suite installation options. This download was scanned by our antivirus and was rated as safe. And now you can add cisco ucs to the list, joshua barton has done a great job of using the framework to create a new vcheck edition that will enable ucs admins to run a check on their systems and bring back any known issues that may be a problem. It also includes some configuration recommendations that come from experience implementing flexpods. Cisco ucs powertool suite is a set of powershell modules for cisco ucs manager, cisco imc and cisco ucs central that helps in configuration and management of cisco ucs domains and solutions. Cisco ucs powertool suite installation and configuration guide.
Cisco ucs powertool core suite is a set of powershell core modules for cisco ucs manager, cisco imc and cisco ucs central that helps in configuration and management of cisco ucs domains and solutions. Powershell module for cisco ucs manager ucs manager module in cisco powertool suite. These recommendations are not official recommendations from cisco, but taken. Ucs wwpn collector powershell script cisco community.
Vmware and cisco ucs integration vmware powercli blog. Together they afford ucs system administrators the ability to quickly automate and customize a multitude of management tasks resulting increased efficiency and quality utilization of it resources and staff. Cisco ucs servers both managed by ucs manager and standalone rackmount servers can be managed with powershell scripts. Cisco ucs platform emulator with powershell pluralsight. You can change these values, if needed, by modifying a properties file. The cisco ucs powertool suite is a set of powershell modules for cisco ucs manager, cisco imc cseries standalone servers and cisco ucs central that helps in configuration and management of cisco ucs domains and solutions. Cisco ucs powertool core suite is developed using powershell core and. Getting starting with cisco ucs powershell toolkit blog.