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Cisco Intersight

Elevate IT operations with Intersight Advantage

Break down IT silos and automate complex workflows. See how Cisco Intersight Advantage simplifies orchestration and deepens integration across your infrastructure.

Cisco Intersight offers flexible licensing tiers designed to evolve with your operational goals. Explore the Cisco Intersight Licensing At-a-Glance to determine whether the Essentials or Advantage tier best aligns with your current infrastructure requirements.

AI at your fingertips

Enhance your IT operations with Cisco Cloud Control, AI Canvas, and AI Assistant. These powerful, AI-native tools empower your team with natural language guidance, cross-domain insights, and a collaborative workspace to resolve complex infrastructure issues faster. These advanced capabilities are included natively within both our Essentials and Advantage subscription tiers at no additional cost.

Note: Intersight Advantage is required to deploy operating systems on UCS with Stack Automation by Quali, the deployment automation engine in Cisco Cloud Control.

Features	Essentials	Advantage
Platform services Services include: Platform-level settings for user and SDK/API access, permissions, licensing, and audit. Support for health monitoring, topology views, tagging and search, data collection and storage, and multifactor authentication. Essentials includes data collection every ten minutes and 90 days of storage. Advantage includes data collection every minute and two years of storage.	Available	Available
Unified computing Support for Cisco UCS inventory, firmware, and dashboard management is included.	Available	Available
Server policies and profiles Simplify compute infrastructure management with policy-based configuration using Cisco UCS server profiles.	Available	Available
Automation and code generation Automate operations using full API and SDK support, including compatibility with Ansible and Terraform. Use the Cisco Intersight Code Generator to capture UI actions and generate equivalent Python and PowerShell scripts, enabling consistent configuration replication across multiple Intersight accounts.	Available	Available
Power monitoring and management Monitor power consumption of Cisco UCS servers and track energy use through metrics. Set and apply power policies for servers, BIOS, OS, and dynamic power rebalancing.	Available	Available
IT operations analytics Collect, monitor, and visualize data from Cisco Intersight for enhanced operational insights and proactive management within Splunk using the Cisco Intersight Add-on for Splunk.	Available	Available
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix Monitor Nutanix clusters and nodes in Intersight using the integration between Cisco Intersight and Nutanix Prism Central and the Cisco Device Connector. Deploy, expand, upgrade, and manage Nutanix HCI clusters running on Cisco UCS platforms with Nutanix cluster lifecycle management.	Available	Available
Advisories Get alerts about endpoint devices that are impacted by supported security advisories and field notices along with recommended remediation.	Available	Available
Simplified and automated support Accelerate troubleshooting with hardware compatibility alerts, proactive Return Material Authorizations (RMA), and automated gathering and uploading of log files for Intersight-connected devices through the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (Cisco TAC).	Available	Available
Cisco Intersight mobile app Claim new targets in Intersight, monitor and view resources managed by Intersight, view alarms, and open support cases.	Available	Available
Third-party storage and converged infrastructure support View inventory and alarms of third-party storage arrays and automate day-to-day operations using supported tasks. Visualize and control FlexPod converged infrastructure, including servers, networking, storage, VMware virtualization, and Cisco fabric interconnects.		Available
Advanced server operations Get extended visibility, ecosystem integration, and automation of Cisco and third-party hardware and software plus multidomain solutions.		Available
Advanced monitoring and metrics Enriched topology view offers detailed alarms, error metrics, networking bandwidth and utilization, and visibility into Ethernet top-of-rack neighbor switches.		Available
In-platform automation and orchestration Create and execute complex workflows with a drag-and-drop designer and extend automation beyond Intersight to integrate and orchestrate operations across your broader IT ecosystem.		Available
Red Hat OpenShift integration Enhance efficiency with the Red Hat OpenShift Assisted Installer for automated bare-metal deployments and the Intersight Plugin for Red Hat OpenShift, bringing hardware insights directly into OpenShift workflows for optimized operations.		Available
Virtualization inventory and management Simplify the cloud experience with visibility of virtualization infrastructure and normalization of operations across multiple clouds.		Available
IT service and operations management Resolve issues faster using the ServiceNow Service Graph Connector for Cisco Intersight and the Cisco Intersight Incident Management Integration plugins available on the ServiceNow Store.		Available
Fleet management for distributed edge computing Streamline fleet management with zero-touch provisioning, standardized configurations through blueprints authored by Cisco, version control, scheduled rollouts, conformance reporting, and global visibility by geolocation—reducing manual effort and improving operational consistency.		Available

One platform, simpler operations

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