Cisco UCS Central Management through Cisco UCS Director
Cisco UCS Director uses orchestration to automate some of the steps required to configure the Cisco UCS domains registered with Cisco UCS Central and to provide a statistical analysis of the data.
When you add a Cisco UCS Central account, Cisco UCS Director performs an inventory collection on the Cisco UCS Central configuration. During inventory collection, Cisco UCS Director discovers and imports the existing configuration, including the following:
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Domain groups
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Domain group policies
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Registration policies
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Each registered Cisco UCS domain and the Cisco UCS Manager inventory for that Cisco UCS domain, including the following:
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Fabric interconnects
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Chassis
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Servers
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After you add a Cisco UCS Central account and its inventory collection is complete, you can use Cisco UCS Director to register more Cisco UCS Manager accounts with that Cisco UCS Central account, if desired.
Cisco UCS Director provides you with complete visibility into Cisco UCS Central and the registered Cisco UCS domains. In addition, you can use Cisco UCS Director to manage and configure those Cisco UCS domains.