When you’re using curl to interact with the APIC API, or even if you’re using a toolkit/library to create applications, you may want to know which APIC API methods and objects are available for a given task. Yeah, yeah. RTFM. You know what’s up. You’ve already done that. You’ve read the Cisco APIC REST API … More Getting Cozy with the APIC API
If you’ve spent any time with the ACI interface, you’ve probably realized that herding a mouse around a browser is fine for small/one-time operations, but does not scale when you have a large quantity of repetitive operations. Maybe you started using Postman to run API queries, but you want to build a succession of queries and roll … More Getting Started With Curl
Now that 4.0 is released, it’s time to start planning your upgrade! So get out your pencils and slide rules, and start blocking off your calendar for maintenance windows for the next three months… Just kidding! With ACI, upgrading is simply one of those casual tasks you do between coffee breaks or network outages. And … More Upgrading ACI Fabric: The 4.0 Way.
I’d like to thank Takuya Kishida for his work on this post! Common Pervasive Gateway is an older feature that was used to connect multiple ACI fabrics together via a L2 connection prior to the availability of ACI MultiPod and ACI MultiSite. While most customers will use a newer feature such as ACI MultiPod, or … More ACI Common Pervasive Gateway
The top question all new ACI customers have (or should have), is what are the configurations that should be enabled on my fabric from the beginning? With that in mind, we’re going use this post as a living document with configurations that are considered “Best Practice” to have enabled. We will keep this document updated … More ACI Best Practice Configurations
There are certain times when CIMC access to your APIC is absolutely critical, for example, when you are troubleshooting a problem, upgrading your APICs, or performing a factory reset. During these times, you can access your APIC via CIMC by using the KVM console, which requires Java (or HTTP with CIMC 3.0), or by enabling … More Upgrading the CIMC for your APICs
For those of us with more than one ACI Fabric, how many times have you mistakenly logged into the wrong fabric and almost made a change that was intended for a different ACI Fabric? It’s easy to do! This problem can go downhill fast when you are just trying to test something in your lab, … More Configuring an APIC Banner (GUI Alias)
Did you know that you can enable logging for permitted and denied traffic that flows through your ACI Fabric? While this feature is not meant as a replacement for Tetration or Netflow, this can be a great tool for troubleshooting and examining traffic that is flowing through applications that reside in your ACI Fabric. In … More Logging ACL/Contract Permits and Denies with ACI
ACI contains a plethora of information. Using SYSLOG to get that information from all of the devices in your fabric to a centralized SYSLOG server is still a good way of aggregating logging data, alerts, and audit information. In this post, we’ll review what data is available to be forwarded to your external SYSLOG server, … More Configuring Syslog for ACI
One of the most frequent topics that comes up when I am discussing ACI with customers, is, “How can we better operationalize ACI?”. In other words, how can we take what we have with ACI, and make it simpler to consume for not only ourselves, but for our Ops staff? Operationalizing and maintaining contracts between … More Operationalizing ACI: Contracts Viewer