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
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
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
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
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 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
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)
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)
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)
Contributors: Soumitra Mukherji and Alec ChamberlainWith Expert Guidance from: Filip Wardzichowski If you have been using ACI as your data center fabric and you are like most enterprise customers, you probably have ACI integrated VMM domain and are reaping the benefits of that. ACI also integrates seamlessly with Openstack creating a Openstack VMM domain. For … More Openstack with ACI Integration – Part 1 (General Discussions of Openstack with ACI)