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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

Viewing events


Events are not centrally collated, unlike faults. We need to go and find them. We need to keep an eye out for a History tab, like the one shown before. 

How to do it...

Let's look at how we can view events.

Tenant events

  1. From the tenant, select History and then Events:

There is nothing to see here:

Fabric events

Let's look at the fabric. 

  1. From the Fabric menu, select the pod, select History, and then select Events:

Here, we have some data.

  1. Double-clicking on an event will bring up another window with more information:

AAA events

We can see what changes have been made to AAA by following these steps:

  1. Go to Admin | AAA | AAA Authentication, then select the History tab, and then select Events:

Here, we can see the changes we made in Chapter 5, ACI Security, when we set up AAA authentication on the fabric. The cause is listed as a transition (because we made a change to an existing property), and we have a brief description. Double-clicking on an entry brings up more information, but does not...