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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

Routing with OSPF


In this recipe, we will cover routing with OSPF, including configuring an OSPF interface policy and profile.

How to do it...

  1. Start by creating an external routed network. Navigate to Tenants | TenantA | Networking | External Routed Networks. Right-click on this and select Create Routed Outside.
  2. Name it, choose OSPF, and set the OSPF Area ID.  Cisco ACI supports NSSA, regular areas, and stub areas.
  1. Click on the plus sign next to Nodes And Interfaces Protocol Policies.
  2. Name the policy.
  1. Click on the plus sign next to Nodes.
  2. Select the node and set a router ID.
  3. Set any static routes that may be required.
  1. Click on OK.
  2. Click on the plus sign next to OSPF Interface Profiles.
  3. Name the profile and set any authentication settings and BFD (BiForwarding Detection) configurations.
  4. Configure the interface type (again, choosing from Routed, SVI or Routed Sub-Interface).
  5. Click on the plus sign to create the interface.

 

 

  1. Click on OK.

 

 

  1. Click on OK again.
  1. Click on NEXT.
  2. On the Configure External EPG Networks...