Data Center Orchestration¶
F5 Networks Data Center Orchestration (DCO) is a set of tools that
helps administrators and developers manage and automate their data
centers. It gathers data center management, monitoring, and control
features into a unified interface. You access DCO features through a
set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that use a device and
feature object model.
Health Model¶
The DCO health model describes from a DCO perspective, how the devices and objects that form your network relate to one another. Understanding the hierarchical structure of these relationships provides key insight into the workings of the DCO tool set.
- DCO Health Model provides a graphic representation of the health model and links to detailed information on each object in the DCO health model hierarchy.
Enterprise Manager: “Single Management Point”¶
The F5 Enterprise Manager serves as DCO’s single point of management.
DCO features, such as device inventory, device access via a proxy,
single-authentication-point, and performance data aggregation, are all
available through Enterprise Manager.
Features¶
Device Inventory: Enterprise Manager maintains an inventory of devices that you can manage, monitor, and orchestrate. Using DCO APIs, you can add, remove, or query this inventory of BIG-IP devices.
- Device Inventory API Details provides detailed information about the device inventory APIs.
- About device inventory provides some sample use cases implementing device inventory APIs as solutions.
iControl Proxy: Enterprise Manager uses iControls to provide a proxy
interface to BIG-IP devices. Use this proxy to query and make changes
to a device and it’s configuration objects via a single authentication
and auditing point.
- iControl Proxy API Details provides detailed information about the iControl Proxy APIs.
- About iControl Proxy provides some sample use cases implementing iControl Proxy APIs as solutions.