Nagios UCSM plug and unassociated/powered off blades

[George M]

Using Nagios XI 5.4.11

Using the latest USCM plugin (9.4)

I have several UCS domains i am monitoring

Within our UCS we have some spare/unused capacity

These blades are either configured but shut down (on purpose) or the are un-allocated in UCS and shutdown.

Nagios see these as

"Overall Health Status:WARNING - <br>ComputeBlade (sys/chassis-4/blade-1) - WARNING - Operational Health of Blade is not OK.<br><br>"

I am trying to figure out how to clear these warning alerts out

skip over un-allocated or user shutdown blades.

of course it do not want it to ignore a configured blade if it shuts down due to hardware failure or otherwise.

any insight would be appreciated

Thanks

George

[sbhadrav@cisco.com]

We are pleased to release Cisco UCS Manager Plugin 0.9.4 for Nagios
Nagios is an open source computer system monitoring, network monitoring and infrastructure monitoring software application. Nagios offers monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications, and services.
The solution provides end-user with two components.
* The first is the Nagios monitoring plugin script (cisco_ucs_nagios) which will provide end-user with the capability of monitoring the components like blade servers, rack servers, fabric interconnects, chassis, IO Modules, fabric extenders in one or more UCS domains.
* The second is an add-on to the Nagios, which will provide end-user with the capability to auto discover UCS domain and create the host definitions in Nagios . It also creates the service definitions for the services defined in the configuration file. By default, the addon is shipped with basic service definitions for each UCS component (aka host in Nagios) which use the cisco_ucs_nagios script to monitor their health. Refer to the user guide section 5.1 for the list of services defined by the addon. For components/hosts which are not healthy, it gives the associated faults and their details. For components/hosts which are healthy, it gives the inventory details.
Supported Nagios Versions:
This plugin is supported on Nagios Core version 3.2 and higher versions.
Supported Cisco UCS Manager Releases:
This plugin is supported on Cisco UCS Manager Releases 2.1, 2.2 and 3.0.

Software Requirements for Release 0.9(4):
This release of the plugin requires Python SDK 0.8.3 to communicate with UCS Manager. Click here to download Python SDK Release 0.8(3) for UCS Manager.

New Features in Release 0.9(4):
Plugin Enhancements:
Capabilities to generate performance statistics of different UCS components.
Check and display faults based on power state of the UCS servers.
"onlyFaults" flag has been changed to "faultDetails", this flag shows detailed fault info when run with inHierarchical flag.
Short options for parameters "--inHierarchical" i.e. “–R” , "--useSharedSession" i.e. “–S” and "--faultDetails" i.e. “-F” have been added.

Auto-Discovery Add-On Enhancements:
IP range can now be provided while discovering UCS domains.
Auto-Discovery script gets CLI arguments to provide UCS details.
Capabilities for user to create custom services for all classes or DN.
Option to keep previously discovered UCS domains when re-running Auto-Discovery.
UCS blades and racks are now getting discovered and named using service profile attached to it.
Flag to discover only the blades and rack servers which has a service profile associated with it.
CLI flag which provides option to disable the default host-group creation.
CLI flag which provides option to disable multiple host creation and in-turn create a single domain host.
Short options for multiple CLI parameters.

Important Note regarding Backward Compatibility:
If you are using the add-on and upgrading from an older release of plugin to release 0.9.4 , you must re-discover all the domains using the new add-on to create new service definition files as the 'onlyFaults' flag in 'cisco_ucs_nagios' script is changed to 'faultDetails'.

Upgrading from Release 0.9.2 to Release 0.9.3 or above:
Run the attached migrate.py to migrate from 0.9.2 release structure to the new structure.
Follow the installation procedure mention in the user guide to upgrade to release 0.9.3 or above.

New Features in Release 0.9(3):
Support for UCS Mini and UCS Manager Release 3.0(1)
Installer script for easy installation and uninstallation of the solution (plugin and add-on).
New Features in Release 0.9(2):
Multiple services for the same UCS domain can share a single session by using --useSharedSession option in CLI.
Better scale numbers: Upto 600 services per UCS domain
Optimized queries for faster response from UCS domain.
Better error handling and reporting in debug mode.
Updated wildcard filter for filtering class based services.