Cisco UCS Director Orchestration Guide, Release 6.6
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The
Cisco UCS Director Orchestrator (also called the
Cisco UCS Director
Orchestration Engine, or just Orchestration) enables IT administrators to
automate cloud deployment and provisioning and to standardize IT services.
At the scale of cloud
computing, manually performing actions such as creating VMs and provisioning
networks is prohibitively time-consuming. In
Cisco UCS Director,
these actions, or
tasks, are
executable elements that can be run from the GUI.
Cisco UCS Director Orchestrator further automates these complex tasks by
organizing them into
workflows.
Orchestrator works by
executing a series of scripted actions called
tasks.
Each task performs one action. By connecting tasks so that the input of one
task is the output of a previous task, you build up a
workflow
to automate administrative processes such as creating VMs, provisioning bare
metal servers, setting up storage, compute, and network resources, and many
others.
Going
Further
The following
documentation describes how to go further with
Cisco UCS Director Orchestrator by using advanced scripting capabilities not
covered in this basic guide to Orchestration.
The following table
provides information about the common icons used in the user interface. You can
see the name of an icon when you hover over it with your mouse. Some icons may
have a different name, depending upon the context in which they're used.
Icon
Name
Description
Search
Search is
available on the header and on individual screens. Click
Search on the header to find a report in the user
interface. Click
Search on an individual screen to find one or more
items in the report.
Alert
Alert is
available on the header. Click
Alert to view your diagnostic system messages.
User
User is
available on the header. Click
User to access your profile, log out, or access the
classic view of the user interface.
Export
Export is
available on individual screens. Click
Export to export the content of the report that is
visible on the screen.
Import
Import is
available on individual screens. Click
Import to import a file.
Refresh
Refresh is
available on individual screens. Click
Refresh to refresh the data that is visible on the
screen.
View Details
View Details
is available on individual screens. Click
View Details to see details about the selected row
in the table.
Table View
Table view
is available for your application containers and catalogs. Click
Table View to view your application containers or
catalogs in a table with details about each application container or catalog
displayed.
Tile View
Tile view is
available for your catalogs and application containers.
Tile View to view your catalogs and application
containers in a tiled view of icons. With this view, you must click on an icon
to see details about that catalog item or application container.
Create
Create is
available on individual screens. Click
Create to create a new object, such as a VM disk.
Add
Add is
available on individual screens. Click
Add to add an item to an existing object, such as
adding a catalog item to an existing catalog folder. The name of this icon may
also include the item that you want to add, such as
Add Catalog.
Expand a
list of values
Lists of
values are available in forms when you must select one (single select) or more
(multi select) items, for example IP addresses or VMs.
Tip
A
multi-select list displays a check box in the upper left
corner of the table next to the first column label. Click this check box to
select all items in the table.
The item
label appears to the right of the
Expand icon. Click the
Expand icon to display the list, then select an item
or items.
Once an
item is selected, its value appears in parentheses to the right of the
Expand icon and label.
Collapse a
list of values
Once a
list of values is expanded, the
Expand icon changes to a
Collapse icon. Click the
Collapse icon to hide the list of values, for
example to see what is beneath the list.
Edit
Edit is
available on individual screens. Click
Edit to modify an existing object, such as a catalog
item or a VM disk.
Delete
Delete is
available on individual screens. Click
Delete to delete an object, such as a catalog item
or a VM disk.
Custom
Actions
This icon
represents additional tasks that do not have an associated icon. It also
represents the default icon available in the user interface.
Favorites
Adds a
page to the
Favorites menu. You can use this option to view
frequently accessed pages more quickly.