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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

Creating filters


In this recipe, we will create a filter and apply it to the contract we created previously.

How to do it...

  1. From the TenantA Security Policies menu, select the Filters option. Click on Actions, and then click on Create Filter.
  1. Give the filter a name and (if you want to) description, and then click on the plus sign. The entries in the filter must have a name, but after that, you can be as permissive or restrictive as you need. Here, we have created a filter called https, which sets a filter on the layer 3 EtherType of IP, the layer 4 IP protocol of tcp, and the layer 7 protocol of https (as the destination port range). This follows the same steps as the previous recipe.
  1. We can now click on SUBMIT, and we can see the filter listed under the tenant’s filters:
  1. To attach this filter to the contract, we need to select the contract we created earlier. Then, under the Filters window, click on the plus sign.
  1. In the window that pops up, we can select the new filter from the drop-down menu...