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Fish the UCS API with Wireshark
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9/19/10 1:51 PM
You can monitor and control Cisco UCS via the XML API¿ if you just knew how.  As well as learning the API, you also need to troubleshoot it.  For those two reasons, you need to know how to use Wireshark to expose the raw API interactions.
 
http://viewyonder.com/2010/09/19/fish-the-ucs-api-pool-with-wireshark/ 
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RE: Fish the UCS API with Wireshark
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3/15/11 3:44 PM as a reply to Steve Chambers.
Hah, I just posted on having to use wireshark because the API wasn't fully mapped and came upon your post. The thing I was looking for was how the Flash KVM page was being launched. BTW it is this:

http://UCSM-URL/ucms/kvm.jnlp?kvmIpAddr=THEKVMIP&kvmdN=org-root/org-BLAH/ServiceProfileName

If you use balboa (1.4) with LDAP you need to prepend 'ucs-' to the domain(provider group)...

Chris
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RE: Fish the UCS API with Wireshark
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3/15/11 4:15 PM as a reply to Chris Atkinson.
Hah, I just posted on having to use wireshark because the API wasn't fully mapped and came upon your post. The thing I was looking for was how the Flash KVM page was being launched. BTW it is this:

http://UCSM-URL/ucms/kvm.jnlp?kvmIpAddr=THEKVMIP&kvmdN=org-root/org-BLAH/ServiceProfileName

If you use balboa (1.4) with LDAP you need to prepend 'ucs-' to the domain(provider group)...

Chris

 
Chris, Steve,
 
At the bottom of this page http://developer.cisco.com/web/unifiedcomputing/start is a link to Third Party Tool document I created that goes over WireShark and Poster http://developer.cisco.com/c/document_library/get_file?groupId=2048839&folderId=2049143&name=DLFE-26525.pdf
 
John
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