xCAT-cisco is a plugin to allow xCAT hardware management commands (currenlty supported rpower, getmacs, rbootseq) to run on the Cisco UCS platform. xCAT (Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit) is an open source hardware tool used to provision physical and virtual machines with proven scalability. In addition to provisioning methods it provides methods to manipulate and query hardware, including getting information from management interfaces (like IPMI, other vendor blades, etc). Think of it this way: Every hardware vendor sells/packages some sort of management solution to manage their hardware: IBM - Director, HP - Insight, Dell - something else, ... etc. xCAT is a way to manage all hardware. For more information on xCAT see: http://xcat.sf.net Installation instructions: When this is complete, there will be an RPM that you should see on this page. Simply download the RPM and install it *after* you have installed xCAT. For information on how to install xCAT see: http://sumavi.com/sections/local-installation Building instructions: If you want to build this source you can use git commands to download this tree and extract it on your home directory. To build this and install it on your xCAT server you can simply follow the links and copy opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT_plugin/ucs.pm to the xCAT server in /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT_plugin and then restart xCAT: service xcatd restart Or You can download this git repository to a RedHat or CentOS Linux machine and do: ./build-xCAT-cisco-RPM cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/ rpm -ivh xCAT-cisco*rpm If you have questions please send them my way: vallard@benincosa.com nsavin@griddynamics.com