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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

Connecting to a TACACS+ server


The steps for adding a TACACS+ server are similar to both RADIUS and LDAP.

How to do it...

  1. Navigate to Admin | AAA | TACACS+ Management | TACACS+ Providers.
  2. Select Create TACACS+ Provider from Actions.
  3. Set the IP address, port (if different from the default of 49), the authorization protocol, and key, and select the management EPG.
  4. Click on SUBMIT.
  5. Navigate to Admin | AAA | TACACS+ Management | TACACS+ Provider Groups.
  6. Select Actions | Create TACACS+ Provider Group.
  7. Name it and add the provider created in step 3.
  8. Click on SUBMIT.
  9. Select AAA Authentication, and set the default authentication to TACACS+ and the TACACS+ provider group to the provider group created in step 7.
  10. Optionally, set the console authentication to TACACS+.
  11. Click on SUBMIT.