UCS Director Knowledge Base

Purpose of the documentUCS Director collects a lot of information on the infrastructure. Manipulating these information in workflows and custom tasks is very useful in various use cases: extracting informations, cross-reference data... This document ...

  Task Name Automate the DNA Center backup and write a file with all the software versions to bacup server and log in SR log file on UCSD. Description Workflow input rules example Prerequisites Validated on UCSD 6.6 Category W...

Task NameExample on converting VM Name TO Vm IDDescriptionPrerequisitesTested on 5.5CategoryWorkflowComponentsvSphere 5.xUser InputsInstructions for Regular Workflow Use:Download the attached .ZIP file below to your computer. *Remember the location o...

Thank you Saranyasree Vadivel for explaining LOV Providers.Here is an example on how to convert these LOV's to workflow input variables:UCSD - Create User LOV's from Embedded LOV ProvidersFrom the REST API Browser TAB in UCSD (Policies -> Orchestrati...

Task NameGet IQN NumberDescriptionGet IQN Number PrerequisitesTested on 5.3CategoryWorkflow tasksComponentsGet IQN Number Log in to UCS Director as a user that has "system-admin" privileges.Navigate to "Policies-->Orchestration" and click on "Import"...

Introduction:   In this article, we are providing sample work flows for the private cloud management solution. In our topology, ACI is used for network. We have placed the BMA outside the UCS fabric  and connected through L3 switch. The UCS servers a...

    Task Name This workflow will log onto a WLC and find the connected AP(s) and test if they are on the network.  Description   Prerequisites Validated on UCSD 6.6.1.0 Category Workflow Task Components   User Input...

 This came together via several parties of people (Sasha, Russ and Michael Z.)    The original question was this:    When deploying open automation connector module and trying to create side menu per UCSD docs https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/un...

Task NameMo Create /cloupis/api-v2 exampleDescriptionPrerequisitesTested on UCSD  6.5CategoryWorkflowComponentsvSphere 5.xUser Inputsinputs length have been tested up to 1300 charactersInstructions for Regular Workflow Use:Download the attached .ZIP ...

This contribution was provided by: Sabina Al Farah.  Many thanks go out to Sabina Al Farah.    2 Workflows are attached :   Ceph - Setup Cluster - using Ansible - on RHEL   Ceph - Provision Block Storage   Explanation doc   Configuration files       ...

Task NameMulti Column CSV file read and great DB entriesDescriptionPrerequisitesTested on UCSD  6.5CategoryWorkflowComponentsvSphere 5.xUser Inputsinputs length have been tested up to 1300 charactersInstructions for Regular Workflow Use:Download the ...

This is an integration example between UCSD and Cohesity.     Posted for Russ (Please direct questions to: rwhitear@cisco.com)   Please watch video for more details:    https://youtu.be/OLqmUm3WMvU   Even more details are here:       Cohesity video w...

  Number Description Page Link Category 0 AO - Essentials Coming soon DOC 1 AO - Documentation Coming soon DOC 2 AO - Calling a workflow in UCS Director (UCSD)   POC

  Task Name Execute a workflow on CCCAO  Description   Prerequisites Tested on 6.6.1.0 Category Workflow Components CCAO 1.0 User Inputs   Instructions for Regular Workflow Use: Download the attached .ZIP file below to your compu...

  Task Name UCSD to ACI generic API example Description UCSD to ACI generic API example Prerequisites Validated on UCSD 6.6 Category Workflow Task Components   User Inputs Number of disks Output Result of o...