Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator Deployment Guide, Release 4.2(x)

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Installing Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator Service Manually

Updated: November 11, 2023

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Overview

sd Installing Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator Service Manually

This section describes how to manually upload and install Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator service in an existing Cisco Nexus Dashboard cluster.

Before you begin

Procedure

1.

Download the Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator service.

  1. Browse to the Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator page on DC App Center:

    https://dcappcenter.cisco.com/nexus-dashboard-orchestrator.html

  2. From the Version drop-down, choose the version that you want to install and click Download.

  3. Click Agree and download to accept the license agreement and download the image.
2.

Log in to your Cisco Nexus Dashboard GUI.

When deploying a service, you must install it in only one of the Cisco Nexus Dashboard nodes, the service will be replicated to the other nodes in the cluster automatically. So you can sign in to any one of your Cisco Nexus Dashboard nodes using its management IP address.
3.

From the drop-down in the top navigation menu, select Admin Console.

You must have admin privileges to deploy services.
4.

Manually upload the image.

  1. From the left navigation menu, select Operate > Services.

  2. Select the Installed Services tab.

  3. In the top right of the main pane, select Actions > Upload Service.

  4. Choose the location of the image.

    If you downloaded the service image to your system, choose Local.

    If you are hosting the image on a server, choose Remote.

  5. Choose the image file.

    If you chose Local in the previous substep, click Select File and locate the image that you downloaded.

    If you chose Remote, provide the full URL to the image file, for example http://<ip-address>:<port>/<full-path>/cisco-mso-<version>.nap.

  6. Click Upload to add the service to the cluster.
5.

Wait for the service to be downloaded to your Cisco Nexus Dashboard and installed.
6.

Enable and launch the app.

After installation is complete, click Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator tile to see the list of available versions, choose the latest version to upgrade.

  1. In the Services page, select the Installed Services tab.

  2. In the Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator tile, click Enable.

    Once the service is enabled, the Enable button will change to Open.

  3. In the Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator tile, click Open.

    The single sign-on (SSO) feature allows you to sign in to the service using the same credentials as you used for the Cisco Nexus Dashboard.