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Interaction Between Cisco UCS Management Components

Cisco UCS integration requires the UCS AIM for SystemEDGE to provide SNMP get/set requests for retrieving UCS devices and statistic data and configuring devices. The UCS Platform Management Module (PMM) also queries UCS devices and statistic information and stores the data in the Management DB. Cisco provides an XML API for interaction with the Cisco UCS Manager. The API allows CA Server Automation to gain access to the hardware, statistics, pools (UUID, MAC, WWPN, WWNN), and service profiles information provided by the UCS Manager.

The XML API also provides the ability to configure certain device properties and perform pools and service profile management. Pools and Service Profile Management are one of the use cases that CA Server Automation manages across multiple UCS Managers to detect pool range conflicts.

The diagram shows components used for the Cisco UCS integration. The communication protocol between the UCS Adapter and Cisco UCS manger is HTTP or HTTPS.