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Cisco ACI Cookbook

By : Stuart Fordham
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Cisco ACI Cookbook

By: Stuart Fordham

Overview of this book

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a tough architecture that automates IT tasks and accelerates data-center application deployments. This book focuses on practical recipes to help you quickly build, manage, and customize hybrid environment for your organization using Cisco ACI. You will begin by understanding the Cisco ACI architecture and its major components. You will then configure Cisco ACI policies and tenants. Next you will connect to hypervisors and other third-party devices. Moving on, you will configure routing to external networks and within ACI tenants and also learn to secure ACI through RBAC. Furthermore, you will understand how to set up quality of service and network programming with REST, XML, Python and so on. Finally you will learn to monitor and troubleshoot ACI in the event of any issues that arise. By the end of the book, you will gain have mastered automating your IT tasks and accelerating the deployment of your applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Configuring multicast on the bridge domain and interfaces


The second step in configuring multicast is to set it up on the bridge domain and at the interface level.

How it works...

We will start by adding the bridge domain:

  1. Click on the plus sign next to Bridge Domains.
  2. From the drop-down menu, select the TenantA/TenantA-BD bridge domain.
  3. Click on SELECT.

Next, we will add an L3 Out.

  1. Click on the plus sign next to Interfaces.
  2. Select an L3 Out from the dropdown.

How it works...

We now have a multicast-enabled interface, with which we will be able to join a multicast group.

There's more...

The configuration (from the CLI) now looks like this:

apic1# sh run tenant TenantA 
# Command: show running-config tenant TenantA
   tenant TenantA
      vrf context TenantA_VRF
       ip pim
       exit
     l3out EIGRP-1
       vrf member TenantA_VRF
       ip pim
       exit
     bridge-domain TenantA-BD
       vrf member TenantA_VRF
       exit
     application TenantA_AP1
        epg TenantA_EPG1
          bridge...