Introduction

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

What is Cisco CloudCenter?

Cisco CloudCenter is a cloud-management platform used for deploying and managing applications in data centers, private clouds, and public clouds.

What Does the Cisco: CloudCenter PowerPack Monitor?

The Cisco: CloudCenter PowerPack enables you to discover and collect configuration and performance data about standard or high-availability CloudCenter deployments and their components. The Cisco: CloudCenter PowerPack can monitor CloudCenter Manager version 4.7 and later.

The Cisco: CloudCenter PowerPack includes:

  • Sample Credentials you can use as templates to create your own Credentials to monitor CloudCenter deployments

  • Dynamic Applications and Run Book Actions to discover, model, and monitor performance metrics and/or collect configuration data for the following CloudCenter components:
  • CloudCenter Clusters

  • CloudCenter Manager
  • CloudCenter Load Balancers
  • CloudCenter Postgres Databases
  • CloudCenter Heath Monitor
  • CloudCenter Tenants
  • CloudCenter Application Instances
  • CloudCenter Clouds
  • CloudCenter Regions
  • CloudCenter Orchestrator
  • CloudCenter ELK components
  • RabbitMQ Servers
  • RabbitMQ Load Balancers
  • Device Classes for each of the CloudCenter components that SL1 monitors
  • Event Policies and corresponding alerts that are triggered when CloudCenter components meet certain status criteria

Installing the Cisco: CloudCenter PowerPack

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

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.