joshand / chronic_ucs_esx_analyzer

Microservice to compare UCS and ESX Hardware and Firmware drivers with Cisco's Interop Matrix

CHROnIC UCS ESX Analyzer

Cisco Health Reports and Online Information Center is a plug-able web app to help visualize and maintain device's support by providing various health reports.

CHROnIC UCS ESX Analyzer uses information collected from CHROnIC Collector to determine if a UCS system is in compliance with Cisco's HCL

Example Report

Installation

CHROnIC UCS ESX Analyzer is built in Python 3.5 and is packaged with a Dockerfile for easy builds and deployments

Environment

CHROnIC UCS ESX Analyzer expects the following environment variables to be set:

CHRONICBUS needs to point to the CHROnIC Bus instance's base URL

CHRONICBUS

CHRONICPORTAL needs to point to the CHROnIC Portal instance's base URL

CHRONICPORTAL

HCL needs to point to one of Cisco's HCL tool URL's. ex: http://ucshcltool.cloudapps.cisco.com/public/rest

HCL

Usage

python

pip install -r requirements.txt
export CHRONICBUS=<bus url>
export CHRONICPORTAL=<portal url>
export HCL=<hcl url>
python3 main.py

or

Docker

docker build -t chronic_ucs_esx_analyzer
docker run -d -p 5000:5000 -e "CHRONICBUS=<bus url>" -e "CHRONICPORTAL=<portal url>" -e "HCL=<hcl url>" chronic_ucs_esx_analyzer

Compatibility

Currently CHROnIC UCS ESX Analyzer needs some manual translations to be setup to work between UCS and the Cisco HCL tool. These bindings live in a TinyDB file of piddb.json . Items can be added at anytime by editing that database

Supported Servers:

• UCS B200 M3

Supported CPU's:

• E5-2600 v1
• E5-2600 v2

Supported Adapters:

• VIC 1240

Supported OS:

• VMware ESX (unknown if update versions run correctly)

Suggested Next steps

• Change from TinyDB to a simple YAML file
• Add more pid to HCL descriptions
• Add better error handeling