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Cisco Intersight

Licensing

Cisco Intersight offers licenses to meet your business requirements. Choose between our Essentials and Advantage tiers to find the right one for your operational goals. 

Enhance your IT operations with Cisco Cloud Control, AI Canvas, and AI Assistant. These powerful, AI-native tools empower your team with natural language guidance, cross-domain insights, and a collaborative workspace to resolve complex infrastructure issues faster. These advanced capabilities are included natively within both our Essentials and Advantage subscription tiers at no additional cost. 

FeaturesEssentials Advantage

Platform services

Platform-level settings for user and SDK/API access, permissions, licensing, and audit. Support for health monitoring, topology views, tagging and search, data collection and storage, and multifactor authentication. 
 
Essentials includes data collection every 10 minutes and 90 days of storage. Advantage includes data collection every minute and two years of storage.

  

Unified computing

Support for Cisco UCS inventory, firmware, and dashboard management.

  

Server policies and profiles

Simplify compute infrastructure management with policy-based configuration using Cisco UCS server profiles.

  

Power monitoring and management

Monitor power consumption of Cisco UCS servers and track energy use through metrics. Set and apply power policies for servers, BIOS, OS, and dynamic power rebalancing.

  

IT operations analytics

Collect, monitor, and visualize data from Cisco Intersight for enhanced operational insights and proactive management within Splunk using the Cisco Intersight Add-on for Splunk.

  

​​Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix

​​Using the integration between Cisco Intersight and Nutanix Prism Central and the Cisco Device Connector, monitor Nutanix clusters and nodes in Intersight. Deploy, expand, upgrade, and manage Nutanix HCI clusters running on Cisco UCS platforms with Nutanix cluster lifecycle management.

  

Advisories

Get alerts about endpoint devices that are impacted by supported security advisories and field notices along with recommended remediation.

  

Simplified and automated support

Accelerate troubleshooting with hardware compatibility alerts, proactive RMA, and automated gathering and uploading of log files for Intersight-connected devices through the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (Cisco TAC).​

  

Cisco Intersight mobile app

Claim new targets in Intersight, monitor and view resources managed by Intersight, view alarms, and open support cases.

  

Third-party storage and converged infrastructure support

View inventory and alarms of third-party storage arrays and automate day-to-day operations using supported tasks. Visualize and control FlexPod converged infrastructure, including servers, networking, storage, VMware virtualization, and Cisco fabric interconnects.

  

Advanced server operations

Get extended visibility, ecosystem integration, and automation of Cisco and third-party hardware and software plus multidomain solutions.

  

Advanced monitoring and metrics

Enriched topology view offers detailed alarms, error metrics, networking bandwidth and utilization, and visibility into Ethernet top-of-rack neighbor switches. 

  

Automation and orchestration

Create and execute complex workflows with a drag-and-drop designer or execute your existing Ansible or PowerShell scripts. Automate Intersight operations using its full API and SDK support features. 

  

Red Hat OpenShift integration 

Enhance efficiency with the Assisted Installer for automated bare-metal deployments and the Intersight Plugin for Red Hat OpenShift, bringing hardware insights directly into OpenShift workflows for seamless, optimized operations. 

  

Virtualization inventory and management

Simplify the cloud experience with visibility of virtualization infrastructure and normalization of operations across multiple clouds.

  

IT service and operations management

Resolve issues faster using the ServiceNow Service Graph Connector for Cisco Intersight and the Cisco Intersight Incident Management Integration plugins available on the ServiceNow Store.

  
Fleet management for distributed edge computing 

Streamline fleet management with zero-touch provisioning, standardized configurations through blueprints authored by Cisco, version control, scheduled rollouts, conformance reporting, and global visibility by geolocation—reducing manual effort and improving operational consistency.
  

​​​One platform, simpler operations​​

See what cloud-based infrastructure lifecycle management can do for you.