Has anyone attempted to monitor intersight manager via redfish yet? I have a client replacing all their cisco ucs kit with new stuff that sits behind intersight, so the old ucs plugin no longer works
Question here is - do the new hardware have the normal management ports and can you reach these management ports. If you can access the management ports, you can try the URL → curl -vk https://mgmt-ip/redfish/v1
if there is data coming back then you can monitor this device via Redfish.
From what I am told there is no direct access to the imc, think of them like blade servers but in a virtual chassis. They get managed via the interconnect. The intersight manager uses redfish to manage and monitor all the servers, but I dont know if it the manager itself will respond. I will attempt it to see what happens but I was hoping someone else had gone through this already and had some info
Yes it is dumb and typical Cisco, despite having a full redfish API the only way to access it is via the “API Explorer” which Cisco says is only available for ‘troubleshooting’ and you can only get to it through the fabric interconnect’s “device console” local WebUI. There is AFAIK no way to access the redfish API outside this API Explorer.
So currently only way I know is to use either OTel for metrics or have to write a special agent for the intersight.com RESTful API.
I think it is VERY silly that they have a full redfish API that is locked behind a WebUI.
Damn, otel is potentially an option then? I have recently gone through PoC for that in 2.5 with new rSeries F5s. Is the exporter on the intersight manager or on each of the servers? Ahh just read a bit, im guessing id be using a scraper instead and firing queries at intersight