Collect Cisco Nexus metrics with the Collector for Kubernetes.

1. To activate the Cisco OS receiver for Cisco Nexus manually in the Collector configuration, make the following changes to your values.yaml configuration file.
   1. Add ciscoos/nexus-switch-1 to the receivers section. You can authenticate your Cisco Nexus device using your username and password, or your username and SSH key file.

      The following examples display configuration files for the two authentication methods.

      Username and password

       receivers:  
         ciscoos/nexus-switch-1:  
             collection_interval: 30s  
             initial_delay: 5s timeout: 10s 
         device: 
           device: 
            host: 
              ip: ${CISCO_SWITCH_IP} 
              port: ${CISCO_SWITCH_PORT} 
            auth: 
                username: ${CISCO_USERNAME} 
                password: ${CISCO_PASSWORD}   
          scrapers: 
            system: 
              enabled: true 
            interface: 
              enabled: true     
          metrics: 
            cisco.device.up: 
              enabled: true 
            cisco.collector.duration.seconds: 
              enabled: true 

      Username and SSH key file

      receivers: 
        ciscoos/nexus-switch-2: 
            collection_interval: 60s 
            timeout: 30s 
            device: 
              device: 
               host: 
                 ip: ${CISCO_ROUTER_IP} 
                 port: ${CISCO_SWITCH_PORT} 
              auth: 
                username: ${CISCO_USERNAME} 
                key_file: ${CISCO_SSH_KEY_PATH} 

   2. Add the ciscoosreceiver/nexus-switch-1 receiver to the metrics/cisco-ai-pods pipeline of the service section. For example:

        pipelines: 
          metrics/cisco-ai-pods: 
            exporters: 
              - signalfx 
            processors: 
              - memory_limiter 
              - batch 
              - resourcedetection 
              - resource 
            receivers:  
              - receiver_creator/cisco-ai-pods 
              - ciscoos/nexus-switch-1 

2. Use Helm to apply the configuration changes:

   helm upgrade ucs-otel-collector \ 
   --set="clusterName=$CLUSTER_NAME" \ 
   --set="environment=$ENVIRONMENT_NAME" \ 
   --set="splunkObservability.accessToken=$SPLUNK_ACCESS_TOKEN" \ 
   --set="splunkObservability.realm=$SPLUNK_REALM" \ 
   --set="splunkPlatform.endpoint=$SPLUNK_HEC_URL" \ 
   --set="splunkPlatform.token=$SPLUNK_HEC_TOKEN" \ 
   --set="splunkPlatform.index=$SPLUNK_INDEX" \ 
   -n otel \ 
   -f ./base-otel-collector-config/values.yaml \ 
   splunk-otel-collector-chart/splunk-otel-collector