Cisco MDS9000 Series (SSH)

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

This connector supersedes:

SMISSwitch^[2]
FibreAllianceSwitch^[3]

cisco^[4] hardware^[5] storage^[6]

Target

Typical platform: Cisco SAN

Operating system: Storage System

Prerequisites

Leverages: Commands on the Cisco Bay Controller

Technology and protocols: Command Lines

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

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`

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