Introduction

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The Cisco CloudCenter Suite PowerPack supports Cisco CloudCenter Suite version 5.1 and higher.

The following sections provide an overview of Cisco CloudCenter Suite and the Cisco CloudCenter Suite PowerPack:

What is the Cisco CloudCenter Suite?

Cisco CloudCenter Suite is a comprehensive, enterprise-class multicloud orchestration and workflow management platform used for deploying and managing infrastructure and applications in data centers, private clouds, and public clouds. Cisco CloudCenter Suite 5.1 includes Cisco CloudCenter, now known as Workload Manager.

What Does the Cisco: CloudCenter Suite PowerPack Monitor?

The Cisco CloudCenter Suite PowerPack lets you discover and collect configuration and performance data about CloudCenter Suite 5.1 deployments and their components. The Cisco CloudCenter Suite PowerPack can monitor CloudCenter Manager version 5.1 and higher.

The Cisco CloudCenter Suite PowerPack includes:

  • A sample Credential you can use as a template to create your own Credentials to monitor CloudCenter Suite deployments

  • Dynamic Applications and Run Book Actions to discover, model, and monitor performance metrics and/or collect configuration data for the following CloudCenter Suite components:
  • CloudCenter Suite Action Orchestrator
  • CloudCenter Suite Workload Manager
  • CloudCenter Suite Cost Optimizer
  • Supported CloudCenter Suite Applications

  • Device Classes for each of the CloudCenter Suite components that SL1 monitors
  • Event Policies and corresponding alerts that are triggered when CloudCenter Suite components meet certain status criteria
  • Automation policies you can use to specify actions you want to run automatically in response to specific event conditions in SL1

Installing the Cisco: CloudCenter PowerPack

Before completing the steps in this section, you must import and install the latest version of the Cisco CloudCenter Suite PowerPack.

To align RabbitMQ with your Remote Cloud, you must install the Docker PowerPack discover the swarm. You must also have the AMQP: RabbitMQ PowerPack installed.

By default, installing a new version of a PowerPack overwrites all content from a previous version of that PowerPack that has already been installed on the target system. You can use the Enable Selective PowerPack Field Protection setting in the Behavior Settings page (System > Settings > Behavior) to prevent new PowerPacks from overwriting local changes for some commonly customized fields. (For more information, see the section on Global Settings.)

The minimum required MySQL version is 5.6.0.

To download and install the PowerPack:

  1. Search for and download the PowerPack from the PowerPacks page (Product Downloads > PowerPacks & SyncPacks) at the ScienceLogic Support Site.
  2. In SL1, go to the PowerPacks page (System > Manage > PowerPacks).
  3. Click the Actions button and choose Import PowerPack. The Import PowerPack dialog box appears.
  4. Click [Browse] and navigate to the PowerPack file from step 1.
  5. Select the PowerPack file and click Import. The PowerPack Installer modal displays a list of the PowerPack contents.
  6. Click Install. The PowerPack is added to the PowerPacks page.

If you exit the PowerPack Installer modal without installing the imported PowerPack, the imported PowerPack will not appear in the PowerPacks page. However, the imported PowerPack will appear in the Imported PowerPacks modal. This page appears when you click the Actions menu and select Install PowerPack.