Have you ever faced a challenge in managing multiple UCS systems? Have you encountered problems in maintaining an overarching system that maintains resource pools, users, and policies, and so on?
If yes, you need automation in place, and Cisco UCS PowerTool Suite is a good choice.
You can use UCS PowerTool Suite to monitor event streams and to export entire UCS configuration. Using UCS PowerTool Suite, you can manage the following objects for UCS Manager, UCS Central, and UCS IMC:
- Service profiles
- Global service profiles
- Power actions
- Servers
- Chassis
- Fabric Interconnects
- Configuration operations
Cisco UCS PowerTool Suite is a Windows PowerShell tool that provides functionalities for managing your Cisco UCS, UCS Central, and UCS IMC. It has more than 2,000 commandlets to let you better manage your UCS platform as a module.
Installing PowerTool is pretty much similar to the way you install any Windows-based application with the following pre-requisites:
- Windows PowerShell 3.0 or higher version
- PowerShell 4.0 or higher version for UCS Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- .NET Framework version 4.5 or higher