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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

Installing device packages


Installing a device package from the GUI is very simple.

How to do it…

  1. From the L4-L7 Services menu, click on Packages:
  1. The Quick Start menu gives us one option: Import a Device Package.

 

 

  1. Click on this link to bring up the file open dialog box:
  1. Click on BROWSE... and select the zipped package file you want to import. Do not extract the files.
  1. Click on SUBMIT. You will see another message briefly appear as the file is uploaded to the APIC.

How it works…

If we look at L4-L7 Service Device Types, we can see the newly added device package.

If we expand out the package, we can see a number of options; these should be familiar if you have looked through the package's XML file.

We won’t be going through these settings now, as we will look at A10 devices later in this chapter.

There's more...

Here is a link to a list of device packages (some require specific permissions to download, such as ASA):

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/data-center-virtualization/application...