Architecture

Collection Process

The PATROL for Converged infrastructure uses an external collector (REST client) to collect the necessary data from the UCS Manager.

The collector is an external process launched by the Knowledge Module (KM). The KM uses the standard input and output parameters of the external collector to communicate with the collection trigger and to receive the required data respectively. At every polling interval, the collector fetches the data from Cisco UCS Manager using XML APIs, processes the data and provides the ready-to-be-consumed data to PATROL Agent. The KM consumes and processes the data to create or destroy the instances, and to set the parameter values. 

Data display hierarchy

Under the main root icon (named Cisco UCS Manager) are displayed icons representing Chassis, Fabric Interconnects, Virtual LAN and Virtual SAN.
 Under Chassis are displayed blade server, with installed ESX server.
 Under each Blade are displayed memory, processors, Network Iinterface Cards (NICs), Host Bus Adaptors(HBAs).
 Under each Fabric Interconnect are displayed switches, fabric ports, fabric channel uplink ports.

Right-clicking the Cisco UCS Manager icon enables you to access the menu commands used to configure and administrate the product.
 Some menu commands can be accessed by right-clicking the device instances.

For more information about the application classes and icons, see Application-classes.