Arcus - Device Types and Templates

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Overview

The CloudCenter platform allows you to define your own parameters or use the CloudCenter-supported parameters as identified in Parameters and Macros > Parameter Type. The webservice option is listed in the Parameter Type dropdown. If you configure this option, you must provide the Protocol (HTTP or HTTPS), Web Service URL, and the credentials (Username and Password) for the webservice. To do this, you can optionally launch an isolated Arcus server and configure the webservice to point to the Arcus server. Arcus is an API broker and translator.

While the CloudCenter platform provides the Arcus integration, it is up to the customer using this feature to address the following dependencies:

• Send requests to the device's API URL
• Call the correct device-specific webservice method
• Convert the webservice response to the format expected by CloudCenter

For details on how to use Arcus with CloudCenter please refer to the CloudCenter Documentation

This document list various Device types and templates that you can import into Arcus and use with Cloud Center. 

Device Types and Templates

The following content is listed by the devices. Please refer to this sample document on how to import these device types and templates into Arcus.

Device: AVI Networks

Device Type: AVI Controller

Templates:

Template Name	Description
AVI-GetHealthMonitor	Get the list of health monitors from AVI Controller
AVI-GetApplicationProfile	Get list of application profiles from AVI Controller
AVI-GetPersistenceProfile	Get list of persistence profiles from AVI Controller

Device: F5 Networks

Device Type: F5

Templates:

Template Name	Description
F5-GetNodeByName	Get the list Nodes by Name
F5-GetNodeByFullPath	Get list of Nodes by Node's full Path

Device Type: F5 iWorkflow

Templates:

Template Name	Description
F5W-GetCloudConnectors	Get the list of Cloud Connectors
F5W-GetTenantNames	Get list of Tenant Names
F5W-GetIappTemplateNames	Get list of (iApp) Templates

Device: Cisco ACI

Device Type: ACI

Templates:

Template Name	Description
ACI-GetVlanPoolNames	Get list of VLAN Pool names from the ACI Fabric
ACI-GetLeaPolicyGroupNames	Get list of Leaf Policy Group names from the ACI Fabric
ACI-GetTenantNames	Get list of Tenant from the ACI Fabric

Device: EMC ViPR

Device Type: EMC ViPR

Templates:

Template Name	Description
VIPR-GetHosts	Get the list of hosts that ViPR has in inventory
VIPR-GetHostIpInterfaces	Get a list of IP interfaces based off of the host_id specified
VIPR-GetVirtualArrays	Get list of Virtual Arrays that ViPR has in inventory
VIPR-GetVcenterList	Get a list of vCenters that ViPR has in inventory
ViPR-GetVirtualBlockPools	Get a list of the Virtual Block Pools

Device: Cisco UCS Central

Device Type: UCS Central

Templates:

Template Name	Description
UCSC-GetPermittedVlans	Get a list of Permitted VLANs from UCS Central
UCSC-GetMacPools	Get a list of MAC Pools from UCS Central
UCSC-GetServiceProfiles	Get a list of Service Profiles from UCS Central
UCSC-GetOrgs	Get the list of Orgs from UCS Central

Device: VMware vCenter

Device Type: vSphere

Templates:

Template Name	Description
VC-GetVMList	Get a list of Virtual Machines
VC-GetVMListNoBlanks	Get a list of Virtual Machines and remove blank entries

Device: Cisco HyperFlex

Device Type: HyperFlex Controller

Templates:

Template Name	Description
HX-GetDatastoreCommonName	Get a list of HyperFlex Datastores

Device: NetApp

Device Type: NetApp SolidFire

Templates:

Template Name	Description
SF-GetActiveVolumes	Get the list of active Volumes from the SolidFire Controller

Device: CloudCenter

Device Type: CloudCenter

Templates:

Template Name	Description
C3-GetJobsList	Get the list of Jobs from CloudCenter Manager
C3-GetUsersList	Get the list of Users from CloudCenter Manager