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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

Navigating the audit logs


The audit logs will show what changes have been made to objects. Staying with AAA, if we switch to the Audit Log tab, we can see a list of the changes that have been made:

How to do it...

  1. Double-clicking on an entry shows the changes (in the Change Set field):

Here, we can see that the default authentication method was modified, and we switched from local authentication to RADIUS authentication.

Earlier, we saw that there were no historical events for the tenant. We do, however, have lots of audit logs:

  1. Again, clicking on an entry will bring up a new window with the details:

Here, we can see the QoS changes we made in Chapter 6, Implementing Quality of Service in ACI.