Overview
The Orchestration feature provides partners and administrators an option to automatically download software updates and simplify the installation and rollback processes. The Orchestration framework is built within the Cloud Connect server that connects to the Cisco hosted cloud software repository. This framework provides the ability to check and download new software updates as and when they are available and notify the administrators via email about the new updates along with the release notes. Orchestration currently supports installation and rollback of Cisco Engineering Specials (ES), Service Updates (SU), Minor Releases (MR), and Microsoft Patches.
Email Notification
The Cloud Connect server checks for new software updates daily at a predefined time. When the new software updates are available, an email notification is sent. This email notification consists of available software updates details along with the release notes and is triggered to the administrators who have subscribed for it.
Email notifications are also sent to provide updates on the success and failure of any upgrade, rollback, or switch forward procedure. These notifications include details such as:
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Specific nodes on which the upgrade, rollback, or switch forward is initiated.
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Cloud Connect server name from where the procedure is triggered.
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Time (Cloud Connect server time) at which the procedure is started.
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Details about build versions of the respective nodes. For example, for an upgrade procedure, it shows both the version from which it is upgraded (FromVersion) and the version to which it is upgraded (ToVersion).
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Status of the procedure for respective nodes to indicate whether the procedure is successful or has failed; the subject line of the email indicates the overall status: success, failure, or partial success.
Cloud Connect server downloads the available software from Cisco software repository every day at the configured time. Email notification is triggered from Cloud Connect server to subscribed users with software download failure details. Also, Cisco software artifactory will trigger an email notification with entitlement or compliance failure details to the email address mapped to CCO ID that is used to generate the Artifactory API key.
Note
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If the option "All nodes" is selected during the upgrade, an email notification is sent about the success or failure at each stage of upgrade.
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The name of the deployment is shown in the subject line of the email, depending on the configuration in the inventory file.
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For patch install or rollback, email notifications are not sent to indicate whether the procedure is successful or if it is a failure.
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