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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

Programming the ACI through REST


Part of the issue with using the ACI simulator is that it does not save any changes. Rebooting the virtual machine results in a loss of work. A power cut results in a loss of work. Having the bathroom fitter turn off the power upstairs results in a...well, I am sure you get the idea. 

Having to recreate everything through the GUI over and over again gets quite frustrating as you can imagine, but here we return to what we spoke about in the first chapter: the move from manual actions to programmability.

Getting ready

To perform the REST-based recipes in this chapter, you will need a REST client. Postman is a good one. You can download if from https://www.getpostman.com/.

How to do it...

  1. Once you have downloaded and installed the client, we will need to turn off SSL certificate verification by clicking on the settings icon at the top right-hand corner (it looks like a wrench). Select settings, and from the General tab, turn off the second option.
  1. Restart the client...
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