Business solutions, opportunities, challenges, etc. relating to the UCS XML API http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_category?p_l_id=&mbCategoryId=2049091 2013-05-18T10:02:16Z 2013-05-18T10:02:16Z Eric Williams http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=4308696 2011-08-02T16:45:17Z 2011-08-02T16:45:17Z

[quote]How do you manage to turn on the locator led, I cannot make it with the api.[/quote]'   Have you looked at goUCS?  With goUCS command "goucs filterlog logtail", you can launch the UCSM GUI, perform a locator LED enable, and the API sent from the UCS GUI to UCSM will be displayed.  FYI, if you are running this against the emulator, the LED states are not emulated, so they will always be shown as "enabled."   Eric

Eric Williams 2011-08-02T16:45:17Z Udo Fholl http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=4284633 2011-07-28T18:03:58Z 2011-07-28T18:03:58Z

How do you manage to turn on the locator led, I cannot make it with the api.

Udo Fholl 2011-07-28T18:03:58Z James Conaway http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=4190369 2011-07-08T22:51:51Z 2011-07-08T22:51:21Z

TITV is an open source project aimed to help you to document your UCS system. TITV consists of a script which collects information from the UCSM via the API. The script parses the XML data and then writes the data to a report.   https://sourceforge.net/projects/titv/

James Conaway 2011-07-08T22:51:21Z Tige Phillips http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=2458246 2010-08-21T05:21:25Z 2010-08-21T05:21:25Z

[quote]/me wants that App![/quote]   It's in the iTunes app store.  Search for "simu ucs".   -Tige

Tige Phillips 2010-08-21T05:21:25Z Rajeev Karamchedu http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=2379999 2010-07-23T23:19:08Z 2010-07-23T23:19:08Z

/me wants that App!

Rajeev Karamchedu 2010-07-23T23:19:08Z Christophe Paggen http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=2357013 2010-07-14T19:23:55Z 2010-07-14T19:23:55Z

Here's a little piece of code that combines VMware vSphere's Perl SDK with the UCS XML API. I grew tired of always wondering what UCS blade this or that ESX host in vCenter Server corresponds to. This Perl code queries vCenter for hosts in a given cluster and attempts to correlate the UUIDs it found with associated server profiles on a given UCS.   The result looks like this:   C:\DOCUME~1\cpaggen\Desktop\VMWARE\DEV\scrap> C:\DOCUME~1\cpaggen\Desktop\VMWARE\DEV\scrap>perl clusters.pl --server 10.48.82.84 --username cpaggen --password cisco --cluster Production --ucs 10.48.58.12 Logged on to UCS 10.48.58.12 [cookie:1279115610/a3919e0d-0588-4b74-98d3-15534fdf399f] Found 15 associated servers on UCS Cluster Name: Production Overall Status: yellow Number of hosts: 3 Host esxi-prod-001 with deadbeef-0000-0000-1112-000000000000 (Cisco Systems Inc model N20-B6620-1) is  pnDn="sys/chassis-3/blade-1" Host esx-prod-003 with deadbeef-0000-0000-1111-000000000000 (Cisco Systems Inc model N20-B6620-1) is  pnDn="sys/chassis-3/blade-5" Host esxi-prod-002 with deadbeef-0000-0000-1113-000000000000 (Cisco Systems Inc model N20-B6620-1) is  pnDn="sys/chassis-1/blade-2" Logged out of UCS End Disconnect   Here's the source:   #!/bin/perl # # List actual location of UCS blades in a given VMware cluster # Search key is UUID as returned by vCenter Server # # cpaggen@cisco.com Jul 2010 # # v1.0 - quality level: "proof-of-concept" # # # usage: perl clusters.pl --server <ip> --username <user> --password <pwd> --cluster <cluster> --ucs <ip> # # ensure vcenter and UCS have the same credentials (ideally use LDAP or any centralized cred. store) use strict; use VMware:[img]http://mce_host/html/js/editor/http://developer.cisco.comhttp://developer.cisco.com/cisco2-theme/images/emoticons/pac_man.gif[/img]IRuntime; use VMware:[img]http://mce_host/html/js/editor/http://developer.cisco.comhttp://developer.cisco.com/cisco2-theme/images/emoticons/pac_man.gif[/img]ILib; use Data:[img]http://mce_host/html/js/editor/http://developer.cisco.comhttp://developer.cisco.com/cisco2-theme/images/emoticons/smile.gif[/img]umper; use LWP::UserAgent; use HTTP::Request::Common; use XML::LibXML; my %opts = (    cluster => {      type => "=s",      help => "Target Host",      variable => "CLUSTER",      required => 1,    },    ucs => {      type => "=s",      help => "UCS IP address",      variable => "UCS",      required => 1,    }, ); Opts::add_options(%opts); Opts::parse(); Util::connect(); my $cluster_name = Opts::get_option('cluster'); my $user = Opts::get_option('username'); my $password = Opts::get_option('password'); my $customFieldsManager = Vim::get_view(mo_ref => Vim::get_service_content()->customFieldsManager); my $cluster_view = Vim::find_entity_view(view_type => 'ClusterComputeResource',filter => { name => $cluster_name }); if(!$cluster_view) {  die "Cluster: \"$cluster_name\" was not found on this vCenter Server\n"; } # Log on to UCS and obtain a cookie my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new(agent => 'perl post'); my $xmlcmd = "<aaaLogin cookie='null' inName='".$user."' inPassword='".$password."'/>"; my $ucsip = Opts::get_option('ucs'); my $url = 'http://'.$ucsip.'/nuova'; my $xml_header = "<?xml version='1.0'?>"; my $request = HTTP::Request->new(POST => $url); $request->content_type("text/xml; charset=utf-8"); $request->content($xmlcmd); my $response = $browser->request($request); if ($response->content =~ m/errorDescr=\"([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\. ]+)\".*/) {     die ("Login failure: ".$1."\n"); } $response->content =~ m/outCookie=\"(\d{10}\/\w{8}\-\w{4}\-\w{4}\-\w{4}\-\w{12})\".*/; my $ucscookie = $1; # Retrieve list of associated server profiles on UCS my $xmlcmd = "<configResolveClass cookie='" . $ucscookie . "' classId='lsServer'>                 <inFilter>                   <eq class='lsServer' property='assocState' value='associated' />                 </inFilter>               </configResolveClass>"; $request->content($xmlcmd); $response = $browser->request($request); my $parser = XML::LibXML->new(); my $xmlDoc = $parser->parse_string($response->content); my $root = $xmlDoc->getDocumentElement(); my $topnode = $root->nodeName(); my @servers = $root->getElementsByLocalName("lsServer"); my %ucsuuids = (); # Extract UUIDs from list of servers foreach (@servers) {  # the XML attribute is actually uuid="...", we are extracting the actual UUID  my $rawkey=$_->getAttributeNode("uuid")->toString(0);  if ($rawkey =~ m/uuid=\"([a-f0-9]{8}-[a-f0-9]{4}-[a-f0-9]{4}-[a-f0-9]{4}-[a-f0-9]{12})\"/)  {  my $val=$_->getAttributeNode("pnDn")->toString(0);  $ucsuuids{$1} = $val;  } } print "Logged on to UCS " . $ucsip . " [cookie:" . $ucscookie . "]\n"; print "Found ". scalar(@servers) ." associated servers on UCS \n"; print "Cluster Name: " . $cluster_view->name ."\n"; print "Overall Status: " . $cluster_view->overallStatus->val ."\n"; print "Number of hosts: " . $cluster_view->summary->numHosts ."\n"; # Query vCenter Server - if uuid is found as hash key then value contains UCS blade location my $hosts = Vim::get_views (mo_ref_array => $cluster_view->host); foreach my $host (@$hosts) {   my $host_hardware = $host->hardware->systemInfo;   my $uuid=$host_hardware->uuid;   printf("Host %s (%s) (%s model %s) is at%s\n",$host->name, $uuid, $host_hardware->vendor, $host_hardware->model, $ucsuuids{$uuid}); } # Logout of UCS my $xmlcmd = "<aaaLogout inCookie='" . $ucscookie . "'/>"; $request->content($xmlcmd); $response = $browser->request($request); print "Logged out of UCS\n";

Christophe Paggen 2010-07-14T19:23:55Z Fred Crable http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=2345563 2010-07-09T23:50:26Z 2010-07-09T23:50:26Z

I got the skills, but will they pay the bills :P

Fred Crable 2010-07-09T23:50:26Z Tige Phillips http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=2164717 2010-05-04T23:59:27Z 2010-05-04T23:59:27Z

You got a really old screen-shot Brian.  

Tige Phillips 2010-05-04T23:59:27Z Brian Schwarz http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=2132971 2010-04-24T07:05:33Z 2010-04-24T07:05:33Z

The attached pdf includes a few slides that give some use case examples around UCS Service Profiles.   Service Profiles are the "atomic unit" of UCS, meaning the management system is really built around this as the core object, similar to what a port might be on a switch, or a LUN might be on a SAN array.   Feel free to add a few of your own examples to this forum.

Brian Schwarz 2010-04-24T07:05:33Z Brian Schwarz http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=2087453 2010-04-02T06:54:01Z 2010-04-02T06:54:01Z

Attached screenshot.   Sent to me by a creative member of the Cisco field team.   Know the iPhone API? Know UCS XML API?   maybe you can make a little $ by publishing on the AppStore. If anyone creates an app please post here.   The UCS Product Team will provide mystery awards for good submissions.   -Brian

Brian Schwarz 2010-04-02T06:54:01Z