Cisco MDS9000 Series (SSH)

Description

This connector discovers the enclosure and fiber-channel ports of SAN switches as well as various environment sensors (temperatures, fans, power supplies, etc.).

cisco hardware storage

Enterprise Connector

This connector requires the Enterprise edition of MetricsHub.

Supersedes

This connector supersedes:

• SMISSwitch
• FibreAllianceSwitch

Target

Typical platform: Cisco Networking

Operating system: Storage System

This connector is not available for the local host (it is applicable to remote hosts only).

Prerequisites

Leverages: Commands on the Cisco Bay Controller

Technology and protocols: Commands

Examples

CLI

metricshub HOSTNAME -t storage -c +CiscoSSH --ssh -u USER

metricshub.yaml

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: storage
        connectors: [ +CiscoSSH ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          ssh:
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt

Connector Activation Criteria

The Cisco MDS9000 Series (SSH) connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The command below succeeds on the monitored host:
  • Command: show version
  • Output contains: Cisco (regex)

Metrics

Type	Collected Metrics	Specific Attributes
blade	hw.status{hw.type="blade", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="blade", state="present"}	blade_name hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id model name
enclosure	hw.enclosure.energy hw.enclosure.power hw.status{hw.type="enclosure", state="present"}	id model name serial_number type vendor
fan	hw.status{hw.type="fan", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="fan", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name
network	hw.errors{hw.type="network", hw.error.type="zero_buffer_credit"} hw.errors{hw.type="network"} hw.network.bandwidth.limit hw.network.full_duplex hw.network.io{direction="receive"} hw.network.io{direction="transmit"} hw.network.packets{direction="receive"} hw.network.packets{direction="transmit"} hw.network.up hw.status{hw.type="network", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="network", state="present"}	device_type hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name physical_address physical_address_type
other_device	hw.status{hw.type="other_device", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="other_device", state="present"}	device_type hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name
power_supply	hw.status{hw.type="power_supply", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="power_supply", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name
temperature	hw.status{hw.type="temperature", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="temperature", state="present"} hw.temperature hw.temperature.limit{limit_type="high.critical"} hw.temperature.limit{limit_type="high.degraded"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name