Cisco extends Nexus Dashboard to traditional network

With the integration of its data center management software with its Nexus Dashboard, Cisco enables support for traditional network environments voice engineer job.

The OEM Cisco has added support for traditional network environments to its Nexus Dashboard data center management console. Delivered in October, the dashboard, which brings together several Cisco fabric management tools, on-premises, in the cloud, and in hybrids, enables the entire application lifecycle to be administered in the same interface, from provisioning to '' maintenance and optimization. According to Cisco, "the dashboard thus provides a central platform for data center operating applications, simplifying operational work and application management, while reducing the infrastructure costs to run them."

For example, "With support for Cisco's Multi-Site Orchestrator tool, which provision, monitors, and manages Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) network resources, the Nexus Dashboard can set network control policies and applications for on-premise or cloud environments, ”Cisco explained. ACI is Cisco's flagship software for software-defined data center networks (SDNs). It also provides network automation technology. More recently, Cisco said it has added similar support for its Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) software that manages existing networking systems running NX-OS. For customers, this means they can control new ACI-based cloud and edge resources from a single console,

Cloud agnostic management Nexus Insights, the other key element of the Nexus Dashboard, allows customers to monitor and analyze their fabric in real time to identify anomalies, provide root cause analysis, plan capacity, and expedite troubleshooting. “This application can now work with ACI and DCNM environments,” said Cisco. “Nexus Dashboard is an intuitive and easy-to-use console for automating the entire data center lifecycle. It helps make infrastructure, governance and security operations highly automated, based on company policies and key performance indicators. It really is a giant leap, ”wrote Usha Andra, Product Marketing Manager, Cisco Data Center Networking Portfolio, in a blog presenting the console in detail. “The process of focusing architectural decisions on these types of metrics, rather than managing the infrastructure lifecycle in silos ... marks a decisive cultural and operational change,”

“Cisco's primary goal is to provide customers with the cloud-agnostic orchestration and network support they need to deploy and support workloads wherever they are deployed,” said Todd Nightingale, vice president Cisco senior and general manager Enterprise Networking & Cloud, in a recent Network World article. “The idea is to focus on offering powerful network and software options on a reduced number of integrated platforms in order to simplify and bring great agility to businesses,” added Nightingale. At the time of Nexus Dashboard release, Cisco had stated that its dashboard supported services provided by third parties like ServiceNow for incident management, AlgoSec for security policy, Splunk for business intelligence and F5 / Citrix for load balancing. “Further third-party integrations are expected,” Cisco said. The system also supports open source software, including the Red Hat Ansible IT automation platform and Hashicorp's Terraform infrastructure as code environment. Nexus Dashboard is available now as an appliance. Later in the first quarter, Cisco will also offer its console as a virtual cloud instance. Hashicorp's Terraform infrastructure environment as code. Nexus Dashboard is available now as an appliance. Later in the first quarter, Cisco will also offer its console as a virtual cloud instance. Hashicorp's Terraform infrastructure environment as code. Nexus Dashboard is available now as an appliance. Later in the first quarter, Cisco will also offer its console as a virtual cloud instance.