Overview
Nexus Dasbboard
  • Introduction
  • ND Basics
  • NDFC Basics
  • NDFC Site1 Fabric (Greenfield)
  • Verify Site1 Fabric
  • NDFC Site2 Fabric (Brownfield)
  • Verify Site2 Fabric
  • NDFC External L3
  • Verify ExtL3
  • NDFC ISN
  • NDFC Multisite
  • Verify MSD
  • Ansible NDFC

Cisco Nexus Dashboard

At-a-Glance

Cisco Nexus Dashboard is a single launch point to monitor and scale across different sites, whether it is Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure™ (Cisco ACI®) fabric controllers, the Cisco® Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC), Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC), or a Cloud APIC running in a public cloud provider environment. Cisco NX-OS with Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) – formerly Cisco Data Center Network Manager (Cisco DCNM) – is available as a service on the Cisco Nexus Dashboard.

Benefits

Easy to use
  • Customizable role-based UI view to provide a focused view on network operator use cases
  • Single Sign-On (SSO) for seamless user experience across operation services
  • Single console for health monitoring and quick service turn-up

Easy to scale

  • Ensure high availability, scale-out operations from a single dashboard
  • Scale use cases leveraging flexible deployment options
  • Operations that span across on-premises, multicloud, and edge networks

Easy to maintain

  • Seamless integration and lifecycle management of operational services
  • Onboard and manage operational services across on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments
  • Single integration point for critical third-party applications and tools

Onboard services and scale your network operations from one interface

With Cisco Nexus Dashboard, you get a unified operations view across all your sites and services. Cisco Nexus Dashboard scales out based on the size, number of sites and the operational services used to manage them. It also provides the operations team with a simple and consistent way for service access control and lifecycle management of the unified operations’ infrastructure and services. Cisco Nexus Dashboard delivers unprecedented simplicity by integrating multiple data center operational tools delivering best-in-class automation and insights from a single pane of glass to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot the network. Along with a uniform onboarding experience for data center sites and operational services such as Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights (formerly Nexus Insights), Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (formerly Multi-Site Orchestrator), Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker (formerly Nexus Data Broker) and third-party ecosystem applications, the operator now has a single landing page and a consistent user experience for the administrator and operator to manage the lifecycle of the infrastructure.