Multi-Cloud Director - Global Dashboard Capabilities

Feature

Description/Benefit

Integration

MCD is integrated with:

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DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF)

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Converged Cloud Fabric (CCF)

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Analytics Node (AN)

Visibility

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Enables Global visibility to check software revisions, IP addresses, MAC addresses, major

alerts, fabric-specific information, endpoint addresses, and myriad other data objects.

Centralized API

MCD provides a centralized, full-featured North-Bound API access for programmability and

automation with IT tool chain.

Global Configuration

Templates

MCD can rapidly apply common configurations across multiple DMF,CCF and AN instances,

specifically NTP, SNMP , Syslog, sFlow, AAA.

Configuration

Snapshots

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Controller instance(s): MCD allows administrators to take scheduled and on-demand

configuration snapshots of multiple DMF and CCF controllers and AN instances. These

snapshots can then be used to restore the respective controller’s configuration to its

previous state.

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MCD instance: MCD also supports configuration snapshot of the MCD instance itself for easy

backup and restore

Inventory

Displays all switch and controller data for each fabric, including hardware addresses, hardware

types, Dell Service Tags, hardware model numbers, switch firmware, ONIE, and CPLD.

Centralized Health

Dashboard

MCD’s health dashboard provides a centralized view to monitor the health parameters such

as fabric errors and warnings, redundancy status, switch status, etc for all your DMF and CCF

deployments.

Compliance Reporting

MCD can generate compliance reports based on hardware revisions and software versions.

Centralized Capacity

Planning

MCD’s capacity planning dashboard displays resource utilization for parameters such

as Enterprise Virtual Private Clouds (E-VPCs) , endpoints, routes, segments, ACLs to help

administrators with capacity planning.

Multi-team Operations

Beyond NetOps, other IT teams can leverage MCD to locate applications or workloads, run

compliance checks, or check security settings within an E-VPC.

Single Sign-on Access

With MCDs single sign-on, administrators can access any DMF or CCF controller or AN cluster

without additional login steps.

Centralized SW

Upgrades

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Controller instance(s): MCD provides administrators a built-in workflow to upgrade multiple

DMF or CCF controllers.

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Analytics Node(s): MCD provides administrators a built-in workflow to upgrade multiple

Analytics Node instances.

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MCD instance: MCD provides an inbuilt workflow for easy upgrade of the MCD VM instance

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