About Devices

Legacy orchestrator allows you to manage all the following components of your Cisco performance monitoring solution:

• Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensors (GT, LT, LX, F100 and F25)
• Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor Control
• Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor Modules (all Assurance Sensor Module models and Assurance Sensor SFP models)
• Legacy orchestrator License Server

By selecting Devices in the left pane, you can access the following pages that allow you to view and manage devices, and to log directly into the devices from Legacy orchestrator:

• Managed Elements: Displays a list of the devices that Legacy orchestrator is actively managing and can log into automatically. You can include these devices in batch configuration jobs set up on Legacy orchestrator. You can access the user interface of these devices directly from Legacy orchestrator by clicking the IP address of the device in the Managed Elements list. You can add devices to the list and remove them.
• Unmanaged Elements: Displays a list of devices that Legacy orchestrator is not currently managing.
• Managed Modules & SFPs: Displays a list of modules connected to Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor Control devices that Legacy orchestrator is currently managing.
• Unmanaged Modules & SFPs: Displays a list of modules that Legacy orchestrator is not currently managing.
• Reflectors: Lists the reflectors that have been defined in Legacy orchestrator.
• Credentials: Displays a list of credentials (accounts for accessing managed devices) that are currently defined on Legacy orchestrator.
• Backup & Restore: Displays a list of the most recent configuration backups available on managed devices. Displays the backup creation time, description and auto-activate restore options for managed devices.
• Firmware: Displays a list of the firmware versions currently installed and running on managed devices. It also indicates the firmware version available for rollback on each managed device.

Managed Elements Page

How Devices Become Managed Elements

Devices enter the inventory of Legacy orchestrator by this general process:

• Preliminary Step: Set up Credentials.
• Step 1: Add devices to the Unmanaged list.
• Step 2: Move unmanaged devices to the Managed list.

Preliminary Step: Set Up Credentials

To manage a device, Legacy orchestrator must be able to log on to the device automatically and transparently to the user. Legacy orchestrator uses Credentials to log on to network devices. One or more credential will have to be set up.

This is a preliminary step, and normally, it is done once, when Legacy orchestrator is initially installed. Occasionally afterwards, it may be necessary to create additional credentials.

For more information, see "Setting Up Devices Credentials".

Step 1: Add Devices to the Unmanaged List

Devices can be added to the Unmanaged list in various ways:

• They can be added to the Legacy orchestrator system manually by a user in the Unmanaged state. See "Adding, Editing and Deleting Devices Manually" for more information.
• They can be discovered in a Plug & Go inventory (devices discovered in this way are initially added to the Unmanaged list). See "Setting Up the Discovery Trigger" for more information.
• They can be imported in the Unmanaged state using an XML import file, see "Adding Devices from a Configuration File".
• They can be moved from Managed to Unmanaged manually by a user, see "Changing the Management State of a Device".

Step 2: Move Devices from Unmanaged to Managed

In order to manage a device, Legacy orchestrator must be able to log on to the device automatically. Legacy orchestrator uses Credentials to log on to devices. Before being able to move devices from the Unmanaged to the Managed list, one or more Credentials will have to be set up. See "Setting Up Devices Credentials".

This step can be done manually by users in the Unmanaged page. See "Changing the Management State of a Device".

The Discovery Trigger feature makes it possible to discover new devices that were recently installed on the network. The discovered devices are configured and added to the Managed list. See "Discovering Performance Elements".