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Appendix 13      Using Adapters 
  UCS Director Adapter
UCS Director Adapter
The Cisco Process Orchestrator Software Adapter for Cisco UCS Director supports task automation on 
Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Manager instances. It provides activities for service profile 
management and the collection of Cisco UCS Director statistics and the Cisco UCS Director target.
The Cisco UCS Director Adapter uses real-time available capacity, internal policies, and application 
workload requirements to optimize availability of the most beneficial or best-suited resources. 
The following table displays activities that are provided by the UCS Director adapter. For more 
information about using these activities, see 
.
Getting Started Using the Cisco UCS Director Adapter
Use the following process to monitor and manage Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Director 
instances. 
Step 1
Create a Cisco UCS Director target (see 
).
Step 2
Define a Cisco UCS Director command activity (see 
). 
Step 3
View the activity results (see 
).
Activity
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Define an operation 
activity
Select Execute Cisco UCS Director Operation to support any of the 
other Version 1 JSON-based APIs. These operations accept JSON 
parameter inputs and produce JSON output.
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Define a task activity
Select Execute Cisco UCS Director Task to support any of the other 
Version 2 XML task APIs supported by Cisco UCS Director.
.
Define a workflow 
activity
Select Execute Cisco UCS Director Workflow to start a Cisco UCS 
Director workflow.
Define a get workflow 
status activity
Select Get Cisco UCS Director Workflow Status to get the status for a 
specified Service Request Id.
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