Understanding the Build Mode Tasks Pane in Views Other than Service View

The Tasks pane in Build mode contains all the tasks you can do in Build mode. Click a specific task to begin that task.

The tasks listed in the Tasks pane depend on the scope you select in the View pane—that is, what view (Device or Custom Group) you have selected and what object you have selected. Not all tasks are available in all scopes. As you change your selections in the View pane, the contents of the Tasks pane also change.

Build mode tasks are divided into the following categories in the Tasks pane.

• Device Discovery—Before your devices can be managed by Connectivity Services Director, you must use device discovery to discover them. As Connectivity Services Director discovers devices, it adds them to your network view in the View pane. Table 1 describes the device discovery tasks.

• Device Management—After devices have been discovered, you can perform administrative tasks on them, such as viewing a list of the device’s physical components, connecting to a device using SSH, or rebooting a device. Table 2 describes the device management tasks.

• Wired—You can create configuration profiles and quick templates for the different wired devices—ACX Series routers, M Series routers, MX Series routers, and PTX Series routers.

• Profile and Configuration Management—Connectivity Services Director provides a set of configuration profiles that you can create to provision multiple devices in your network. Table 4 describes the profile and configuration management tasks.

• Key Tasks—Connectivity Services Director enables you to group the tasks that you perform frequently and create a list of key tasks. You can add any task from the Tasks pane to the Key Tasks list by selecting a task and clicking the plus (+) sign that appears adjacent to the task. For some modes, you can see that Connectivity Services Director has predefined some key tasks for you. You can modify this set of tasks to suit your requirements. This feature is available in Task pane irrespective of your current mode, scope, or view.

For more information about Build mode features, see Understanding Build Mode in Views Other than Service View of Connectivity Services Director.

Table 1 through Table 4 describe the tasks that you can perform in the physical network category, including the scope in the View pane that you must select to access the task.