UCS C Series hardware monitoring

Does anybody know how we could monitor the UCS C Series hardware (power supply, Hard disk, Memory ect...) within SolarWinds. We usually monitor servers via SNMP. It looks like there is the CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-EQUIPMENT-MIB that is supported on UCS manager 1.4 and above. When I to poll the box for those MIB's I get the OID is not supported. The UCS C Series server is on 1.3(2j) for the firmware version. Do we need to upgrade to 1.4 to get the equipment monitoring to work or is there another way? I notice a lot of users are monitoring B Series in Solarwinds but I haven't really seen anything on C Series.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Hello,
Yes, CIMC 1.4 has additional SNMP functionality.
ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/supportlists/ucs/ucs-C-supportlist.html
-------- snip -------------
Release 1.4(3)
provides SNMP V1/V2c/V3 support for inventory and fault monitoring of fans, power supplies, CPU, Memory and Storage Controllers, Physical Drives, Logical Drives and Battery Backup Units. The SNMP agent supports SNMP V1/V2c/V3 traps and V2c informs. This release also carries further the MIB-II Implementation, from the previous release, for “System”, “Interfaces” and “SNMP”.
UCS top level OID -- 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.719.
719.1.1.1.1 -- fault table
719.1.15 -- Inventory table
OID for specific components,
719.1.15.12 -- Fan
719.1.15.56 -- PSU
719.1.30      -- Memory
719.1.41      -- CPU
719.1.45      -- Storage ( controller , LUN , disks and BBU table )
HTH
Padma

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