UCS Director is based on Cent OS based virtual appliance and hosts most of the services including MySQL database for storing all the configuration details; however, you can still use an external database. It includes the following services:
- Apache Tomcat
- Secure domain controller
- Identity and access manager
- Infra manager
- Event manager
- MySQL database
Users can interact with UCS Director through a web-based interface, shell admin (CLI), and REST API. It includes the software development kit (SDK) that provides the REST-based API library for integration with other components. It provides both northbound APIs for interacting with UCS Director and southbound for development of other infrastructure components and complex scripting workflows.