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Cisco ACI Cookbook

You're reading from   Cisco ACI Cookbook A Practical Guide to Maximize Automated Solutions and Policy-Drive Application Profiles

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787129214
Length 424 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stuart Fordham Stuart Fordham
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Understanding Components and the ACI Fabric FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring Policies and Tenants 3. Hypervisor Integration (and Other Third Parties) 4. Routing in ACI 5. ACI Security 6. Implementing Quality of Service in ACI 7. Network Programmability with ACI 8. Monitoring ACI 9. Troubleshooting ACI 10. An End-to-End Example Using the NX-OS CLI

Creating fabric policies

In this recipe, we will create an NTP policy and assign it to our pod. NTP is a good place to start, as having a common and synced time source is critical for third-party authentication, such as LDAP and logging.

In this recipe, we will use the Quick Start menu to create an NTP policy, in which we will define our NTP servers. We will then create a POD policy and attach our NTP policy to it. Lastly, we'll create a POD profile, which calls the policy and applies it to our pod (our fabric).

We can assign pods to different profiles, and we can share policies between policy groups. So we may have one NTP policy but different SNMP policies for different pods:

The ACI fabric is very flexible in this respect.

How to do it...

  1. From the Fabric...
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