New and Changed Information for this Release
The following table provides an overview of the significant changes to this guide for release 6.6(1.0). The table does not provide an exhaustive list of all changes made to this guide or of all new features in this release.
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Where Documented |
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Password related enhancements |
This release introduces the following password related enhancements:
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Proxy Configuration |
You can enable proxy configuration on the system. It is a system-wide configuration. |
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Support for IDP initiated Single Sign-On using Ping Federate |
You can enable Single Sign-On (SSO) using Ping Federate. You cannot enable SSO using OneLogin and Ping Federate simultaneously. |
The following table provides an overview of the significant changes to this guide for release 6.6. The table does not provide an exhaustive list of all changes made to this guide or of all new features in this release.
Feature |
Description |
Where Documented |
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New option to provide OUs manually and synchronize the user records with the LDAP server. |
While configuring an LDAP server, you can choose to add search based OUs manually to the system. Also, at any point, you can enable or disable the manual search based OU integration. |
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Introduction of the Device Connector tab. |
This release of Cisco UCS Director introduces a new tab called Device Connector in the Administration menu. Using this tab, you can enable or disable the device connector that establishes a bi-directional communication between Cisco Intersight and Cisco UCS Director. After a connection is established, you can launch Cisco UCS Director from Cisco Intersight. |
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Support for selecting user groups to approve adding, editing or cloning a virtual data center. |
While adding a virtual data center, you can now choose either user groups or users as first level and second level approvers. If you choose user groups as approvers, then you can also specify if the task requires approvals from all users within the chosen groups. The Workflow Status screen for a service request will also display names of the user groups that have been selected as approvers. |
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Additional information displayed in the Summary screen while creating a service request using an advanced catalog. |
While creating a service request using an advanced catalog, the Summary screen displays information on all the values that you entered while creating the service request. While provisioning a VM using an advanced catalog, the Summary screen displays the approximate SR cost estimate. |
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Introduction of the Global Dashlet option to customize the availability of dashlets in the end user portal for service end-users. |
With this option, you can configure the number of dashlets that users within all groups can view when they login to the End User Portal. |
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Removed the Login with Classic View check box |
In the prior release, while adding or modifying a user, you could check the Login with Classic View check box. This check box has been removed as the Classic View is no longer available. |
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Support for executing pre-provisioning workflows while provisioning VMs using a standard catalog. |
This release of Cisco UCS Director introduces support for executing orchestration workflows before provisioning VMs using a standard catalog. |
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Enhanced scheduling capabilities for system tasks. |
This release of Cisco UCS Director introduces an option to schedule a system task with a Fixed Delay option. This option implies a fixed amount of time gap between consecutive executions of a system task. By default, most system tasks are configured with the Fixed Delay option. However, there are a few tasks that are configured only with the Fixed Rate option. This release also introduces the capability to configure a customized frequency for the system tasks. |
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Resource limits support for Hyper-V provisioning |
This release of Cisco UCS Director introduces support for configuring resource limits for provisioning Hyper-V systems. |
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Upgrading Connector Packs |
This release introduces support for upgrading connector packs from the graphical user interface of Cisco UCS Director. |