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Cisco UCS Director includes orchestration features that allow you to create workflows to automate the configuration and management of tasks that are typically managed by Cisco Integrated Management Controller (Cisco IMC). Some tasks, such as associating a rack server profile with a rack server or adding a vNIC or a vHBA to a rack-mount server, can only be done through a workflow.
For an example of a workflow for a rack server, see Sample Workflow: Power Cycling a Rack Server. For more information about orchestration in Cisco UCS Director, see the Cisco UCS Director Orchestration Guide.
Cisco UCS Director provides some orchestration tasks in the Task Library that you can include in workflows.
A complete list of the Cisco IMC orchestration tasks is available in the Workflow Designer and the Task Library. The Task Library includes a description of the orchestration tasks. It can be accessed from the following locations in Cisco UCS Director:
http://IP_address/app/cloudmgr/onlinedocs/cloupiaTaskLib.html where IP_address is the IP address of Cisco UCS Director.
In the Workflow Designer, you can access these tasks to add them to a workflow from the Available Tasks pane through .
The Cisco IMC orchestration tasks include tasks to configure and manage the following:
You can create workflows to automate many configuration and management tasks for rack servers. The following sample workflow power cycles a rack-mount server. You can find detailed information about each workflow task in the Task Library.