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Cisco UCS Cluster / ACI Fabric Autodiscovery

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Load balancers share the discovery job page of the Main Appliance. See the F5/Load balancer discovery page if you are looking for load balancer discovery information.

Device42 will poll your Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System) Manager to discover cluster device information or ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) Fabric to discover your SDN (software-defined networks).

From version 18.12, UCS discovery jobs have been expanded to include network connectivity information beyond the original Chassis and Blade relationship data for UCS clusters. You'll now have a comprehensive overview of your entire cluster's connectivity, complete with port-channel aggregation information.

UCS network discovery map

Setting up a Cisco UCS Cluster or ACI Fabric Discovery

Create a job by navigating to Discovery > UCS/ACI/Load Balancers to add and edit Cisco UCS manager information.

The UCS/ACI/Load Balancers menuThe UCS/ACI/Load Balancers menu

Add your Cisco UCS Manager or ACI Fabric discovery job by entering one or more IPs or FQDNs, and scroll down to enter your username and password (with permissions) on the device.

Add Cisco UCS jobAdd Cisco UCS job

Scheduling UCS Cluster or ACI Fabric Discovery Jobs

Schedule your autodiscovery job to run regularly on certain days and at specific times.

schedule an UCS or ACI discovery jobschedule an UCS or ACI discovery job

UCS Cluster / ACI Fabric Discovery Option Definitions

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The following options only exist for UCS and ACI devices.

Hostname to use: Choose the discovered Name or Serial # hostname format to use for newly discovered devices.
Give precedence to hostname: Select to force overwrite the existing hostname for devices that already exist using the hostname option.
VRF Group for discovered devices: Place discovered devices into the following VRF group.
Object Category for discovered devices: Place discovered objects into the chosen category in Device42.
Overwrite existing object categories: Select to force overwrite of category on devices that already exist in Device42.

Device and Chassis Names

If an existing device is not found for the Chassis or the Blade based on the serial number, Device42 will add a new device. The Name will be derived from the DN and the serial # of the device.

Check the Give precedence to hostname option to use the discovered name for the device instead of its given name.

UCS ACI hostname to useUCS ACI hostname to use

Service Profiles

Navigate to Infrastructure > UCS Service Profiles to see a list of discovered service profiles. You can view the Name, DN, UCSManager, and Device information for each job. Search for specific profiles using the search bar on the Service Profile page or the main dashboard.

Service profile listService profile list

Run Now or Schedule

Newly created jobs will not run on the first day of their creation to prevent a large number of unintended jobs from running. To run a job after its initial creation, click on the Run Now button next to the job after creating the job.

Run now buttonRun now button

Create a run schedule for the job by clicking on the Add another Autodiscovery Schedule button when in the job edit mode.

Add another Auto Discovery Schedule buttonAdd another Auto Discovery Schedule button