Powershell Get Policy Usage for Cisco UCS Policies

Hello Everyone,

Does someone know the powershell command equivalent for the "Show Policy usage" in the Cisco UCS GUI?

I didn't find any hint in several whitepapers nor on internet search engines.

Thank you!

Hi Johannes,

There is no direct cmdlet available in UCS Manager PowerTool to get the Policy usage. However you can fetch that information by writing a script using the UCS Manager PowerTool libraries.

Here are the steps that needs to be performed to get the policy usage.

1. Connect to the UCS Manager using the Connect-Ucs cmdlet and save the Session handle in an object.

         $handle = Connect-Ucs <UCS Manager Name>

2. Fetch the policy object for which you need the policy usage. For ex for Host Firmware Packages you can use the below snippet. You can save the output to a object.

$fwPolicy = Get-UcsFirmwareComputeHostPack -Name "default"

3. You need to invoke a method in the UCS Manager PowerTool Library and save the output to an object.

Method Name: ConfigFindDependencies

Parameters: Valid Session Handle, DN of the Policy to be queried, in return config (true or false)

$policyUsage = [Cisco.Ucsm.MethodFactory]::ConfigFindDependencies($handle,$fwPolicy.Dn,"true")

4. $policyUsage.OutConfigs.GetChild() will have details of the Policy usage.

AgentPolicyName          :

AssignState              : assigned

AssocState               : associated

BiosProfileName          :

BootPolicyName           :

ConfigQualifier          : {}

ConfigState              : applied

Descr                    :

DynamicConPolicyName     :

ExtIPPoolName            :

ExtIPState               : static

HostFwPolicyName         :

IdentPoolName            :

KvmMgmtPolicyName        :

LocalDiskPolicyName      :

MaintPolicyName          :

MgmtAccessPolicyName     :

MgmtFwPolicyName         :

Name                     : XXXXXXXX

OperBiosProfileName      :

OperBootPolicyName       : org-root/boot-policy-default

OperDynamicConPolicyName :

OperExtIPPoolName        :

OperHostFwPolicyName     : org-root/fw-host-pack-default

OperIdentPoolName        :

OperKvmMgmtPolicyName    : org-root/kvm-mgmt-policy-default

OperLocalDiskPolicyName  : org-root/local-disk-config-default

OperMaintPolicyName      : org-root/maint-default

OperMgmtAccessPolicyName :

OperMgmtFwPolicyName     :

OperPowerPolicyName      : org-root/power-policy-default

OperScrubPolicyName      : org-root/scrub-default

OperSolPolicyName        :

OperSrcTemplName         :

OperState                : ok

OperStatsPolicyName      : org-root/thr-policy-default

OperVconProfileName      :

OperVmediaPolicyName     :

Owner                    : management

PnDn                     : sys/chassis-1/blade-3

PolicyLevel              : 0

PolicyOwner              : local

PowerPolicyName          : default

PropAcl                  : 0

ResolveRemote            : yes

Sacl                     :

ScrubPolicyName          :

SolPolicyName            :

SrcTemplName             :

StatsPolicyName          : default

SvnicConfig              : yes

Type                     : instance

UsrLbl                   :

Uuid                     : derived

UuidSuffix               : 0000-000000000000

VconProfileName          :

VmediaPolicyName         :

Ucs                      : XXXXXXX

Dn                       : XXXXXXX

Rn                       : XXXXXXX

Status                   :

XtraProperty             : {}

You can use step 3 for getting policy usage for any policy type you want.

Let me know if you need further help on this.

Thanks,

Sumanth

Great! Thank you!

Hi Suman,

Could you help me with the python version of this function.

below code isnt working for me.

from ucsmsdk.ucsmethodfactory  import config_find_dependencies

me = config_find_dependencies(handle,check,"true")

print me.out_configs.get_child()

Regards,

VM

Hi VM,

Pleas find the snippet below:

from ucsmsdk.ucsmethodfactory import config_find_dependencies

from ucsmsdk.ucshandle import UcsHandle

handle = UcsHandle("ip", "username", "password")

handle.login()

elem = config_find_dependencies(cookie=handle.cookie, dn="org-root/fw-host-pack-default", in_return_configs="true")

response = handle.post_elem(elem)

mos = response.out_configs.child

for mo in mos:

print mo

handle.logout()

Hope this helps.

Thanks

Rahul

HI Rahul,

Yes it certianly helped .. Thank you for your response.

Regards,

VM