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Part 1 – Installing AppDynamics and Integrating with Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights

September 14, 2021

With the release of NDI 5.0, Cisco added the ability to integrate the NDI platform with other 3rd party monitoring applications. The first integration supported was AppDynamics. With AppDynamics you can feed in your application monitoring to the NDI dashboard to provide further information to aid in monitoring and troubleshooting specific issues with the application running … More Part 1 – Installing AppDynamics and Integrating with Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Demo – Unlock new value from your hybrid cloud network

November 16, 2021

In this recording, you can see the capabilities Nexus Dashboard / Orchestrator / Insights. This has a real time live demo showing off some of the main features and will get you familiar with it’s capabilities. The demo gives a brief overview of Nexus Dashboard and apps that runs on it.  It shows how to … More Cisco Nexus Dashboard Demo – Unlock new value from your hybrid cloud network

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights and Splunk Integration

November 10, 2021

Introductions In this article I will demonstrate how to quickly setup a Splunk lab environment using Docker, install the Cisco Nexus Dashboard plugins, and configure Splunk to ingest NDI API data into its GUI interface. Requirements and VM Setup 1 VM running your Linux distro of choice with the following HW: CPU – 16 vCPUs … More Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights and Splunk Integration

Cisco ACI APIC and cAPIC monitoring using Prometheus/Grafana

November 8, 2021

Changes: 1/14/2022: Replaced all occurances of APIC 5.3 to 5.2.3 From Release 5.2.3 of APIC and release 25.x of cAPIC  Promethus Node Exporter Feature is available.   This allows you to monitor statistics from Prometheus and view pre-configured dashboards from Grafana to get quick status of APICs/cAPICs. In this write up,  I will show you how … More Cisco ACI APIC and cAPIC monitoring using Prometheus/Grafana

A Guide To: Nexus Dashboard Insights Kafka Exporter to Elasticsearch/Kibana for Data Analysis & Visualization

November 7, 2021

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights from release 5.0.1x can use the Kafka services that runs on ND and subscribe to a topic as a publisher to that topic that has been created on a Kafka service.   You can then have a Kafka consumer subscribe to that topic and receive all the messages.  The messages that can … More A Guide To: Nexus Dashboard Insights Kafka Exporter to Elasticsearch/Kibana for Data Analysis & Visualization

Enhancing Firewall Policy in ACI using FMC Endpoint Update 1.3 App

October 15, 2021

Defining and maintaining a firewall policy can quickly become a challenge in a fluid software-defined data center.  Luckily, some good orchestration between controllers can get us further along.  FMC (Firepower Management Center) Endpoint Update App, in the 1.3 version posted on dcappcenter helps us define a better firewall policy by providing up-to-date FMC Network Objects … More Enhancing Firewall Policy in ACI using FMC Endpoint Update 1.3 App

Nexus Dashboard 2.1 – New Features – Federated Clusters

September 20, 2021

Nexus Dashboard 2.1 has incorporated a lot of New Features/Improvements.  In this write-up, I will primarily discuss the Federated Nexus Dashboard configuration, why use it and also discuss some of other underlying improvements/changes.  I will also show how to send API calls to Nexus Dashboard Federated Clusters to get Federation Related Information. Installing ND is … More Nexus Dashboard 2.1 – New Features – Federated Clusters

Openstack with ACI Integration – Part 4 (using Openstack Integrated ACI)

September 17, 2021

Contributors:  Soumitra Mukherji and Alec ChamberlainWith Expert Guidance from: Filip Wardzichowski If you followed Part 1 through 3, you should have a OpenStack / ACI integrated fabric ready to use. part 1: General discussion of Openstack and ACI integration part 2: showed how to do the integration using packstack part 3: showed how to do … More Openstack with ACI Integration – Part 4 (using Openstack Integrated ACI)

Openstack with ACI Integration – Part 3 (installing using Red Hat Director)

September 11, 2021

Contributors:  Soumitra Mukherji and Alec ChamberlainWith Expert Guidance from: Filip Wardzichowski In Part 1 of this article, we discussed that I would write 4 parts for this. Part 1:  General Discussion of Openstack / ACI Integration Part 2: Guided Install for Openstack/ACI with Opensource CentOS7  or with RedHat Registered CentOS7 using packstack (works but unsupported,  … More Openstack with ACI Integration – Part 3 (installing using Red Hat Director)

Openstack with ACI Integration – Part 2 ( installing with packstack)

September 13, 2021

Contributors:  Soumitra Mukherji and Alec ChamberlainWith Expert Guidance from: Filip Wardzichowski In Part 1 of this article, we discussed that I would write 4 parts for this. Part 1:  General Discussion of Openstack / ACI Integration Part 2: Guided Install for Openstack/ACI with Opensource CentOS7  or with RedHat Registered CentOS7 using packstack (works but unsupported,  … More Openstack with ACI Integration – Part 2 ( installing with packstack)