Centralized
inventory
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Cisco UCS Central
automatically aggregates a global inventory of all registered Cisco UCS
components, organized by domain, with customizable refresh schedules and
provides even easier integration with ITIL processes, with direct access to the
inventory through an XML interface.
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Centralized
fault summary
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Cisco UCS Central enables you
to view the status of all Cisco UCS infrastructure on the global fault summary
panel, with a fault summary organized by domain and fault type. Also provides
you the ability to view individual Cisco UCS Manager domains for greater fault
detail and more rapid problem resolution. Drilling down on a fault launches the
UCS Manager in context for a seamlessly integrated experience.
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Centralized,
policy-based firmware upgrades
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You can
download firmware updates automatically from the Cisco.com to a firmware
library within
Cisco UCS Central. Then
schedule automated firmware updates, globally or selectively, based on your
business requirements. Managing firmware centrally ensures compliance with IT
standards and makes reprovisioning of resources a point-and-click operation.
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Global ID
pools
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Cisco UCS Central eliminates
identifier conflicts and ensures portability of software licenses. You are able
to centralize the sourcing of all IDs, such as universal user IDs (UUIDs), MAC
addresses, IP addresses, and worldwide names (WWNs), from global pools and gain
real-time ID use summaries. Centralizing server identifier information makes it
simple to move a server identifier between Cisco UCS domains anywhere in the
world and reboot an existing workload to run on the new server.
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Domain
groups
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Cisco UCS Central simplifies
policy management by providing options to create domain groups and subgroups. A
domain group is an arbitrary grouping of Cisco UCS domains that can be used to
group systems into geographical or organizational groups. Each domain group can
have up to five levels of domain sub groups. This provides you the ability to
manage policy exceptions when administering large numbers of Cisco UCS domains.
Each sub group has a hierarchical relationship with the parent domain group.
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Global
administrative policies
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Cisco UCS Central helps you to
ensure compliance and staff efficiency with global administrative policies. The
global policies are defined at the domain group level and can manage anything
in the infrastructure, from date and time and user authentication to equipment
power and system event log (SEL) policies.
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Global
service profiles and templates
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Global
service profiles and templates in
Cisco UCS Central enables
fast and simplified infrastructure deployment and provides consistency of
configurations throughout the enterprise. This feature enables global
bare-metal workload mobility very similar to how hypervisor enables virtualized
workload mobility.
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Statistics
management
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Cisco UCS Central enables
you to gain a better understanding of how Cisco UCS domains are functioning
over time to improve operations to smoothly handle periodic peaks and shifts in
workload. You can configure and generate reports from the
Cisco UCS Central GUI. To
accelerate the collection of statistics, the centralized database schema is
open and data can be accessed directly or through the Cisco UCS Central
Software GUI, command-line interface (CLI), or XML API.
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Backup
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Cisco UCS Central provides
an automatic backup facility that enables quick and efficient backing up the
configuration information of the registered Cisco UCS domains and the UCS
Central configuration.
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High
availability
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As with
all Cisco UCS solutions,
Cisco UCS Central is
designed for no single point of failure. High availability for Cisco UCS
Central Software allows organizations to run
Cisco UCS Central using an
active-standby model with a heartbeat that automatically fails over if the
active
Cisco UCS Central does not
respond.
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XML API
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Cisco UCS Central, just like
Cisco UCS Manager, has a high-level industry-standard XML API for interfacing
with existing management frameworks and orchestration tools. The XML API for
Cisco UCS Central Software is similar to the XML API for Cisco UCS Manager,
making integration with high-level managers very fast.
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Remote Management
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Cisco UCS Central enables you to manage various end points in the registered Cisco UCS domains from one management point. You can manage chassis, servers, fabric interconnects, and fabric extenders from Cisco UCS Central GUI or CLI. You can also access tech support files for registered UCS domains from Cisco UCS Central.
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Policy/policy component and resources import
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Cisco UCS Central provides you the flexibility search for and import a perfect policy/policy component or a resource from one registered UCS domain into CCisco UCS Central. You can then deploy this policy or the resource to other managed domains.
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