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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

Browsing the object store using the Object Store Browser


The Object Store Browser is the easiest way of getting started with the object naming convention used within ACI.

How to do it...

  1. To access the Object Store Browser, navigate to https://<APIC>/visore.html, where <APIC> is the IP address or DNS name of the APIC controller:
  1. We are prompted to log in, and when we do, the window will change to list the components of the fabric (the spines, leaves, and controllers).
  1. We can list objects, such as tenants, using their class. In this case, the class is fvTenant:

Because we have not entered any further filtering information, we are asked whether we want to return all of the records, which it does:

  1. We can filter by any of the fields in green, though, to have more specific results returned:

 As you can see, we get the one result we were looking for.

  1. Next to the dn (Distinguished Name) field, we have a number of icons. In reverse order, we can see the health statistics; clicking on this shows...