Book Image

Cisco ACI Cookbook

By : Stuart Fordham
Book Image

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

Finding faults


No one likes faults, but this is where we should start the chapter.

Looking at the dashboard, we can see that there are a number of faults in the system. These are separated into counts by domain and by type.

Fault Counts By Domain will list the sum of faults by severity, from critical to informational at the top and, underneath that, by the individual domain:

Fault Counts By Type shows the faults of the communications, configuration, environmental, and operational types.

Looking at these screenshots, we have a number of faults. Let's find out what they are.

How to do it...

  1. Navigate to System | Faults.
  1. The listed faults (which are samples in this instance) are listed in order of severity. Double-clicking on one of them will open a fault detail page:
  1. Faults will display a severity on the left-hand side. If the icon is a green circle with a tick in it, then the fault has cleared. We can acknowledge the fault by ticking the checkbox.
  1. Double-clicking on the fault will open another window...