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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

Configuring Syslog


While the GUI does a great job of showing us the issues and events in the fabric, many people use third-party tools to aggregate data. Setting up a Syslog server is very beneficial for the aggregation of logs.

How to do it...

Setting up Syslog is very similar to setting up Call Home and SNMP, but with fewer steps required. 

  1. Create a new external data collector (Admin | External Data Collectors | Monitoring Destinations) by right-clicking on Syslog and selecting Create Syslog Monitoring Destination Group:
  1. Navigate to Fabric | Fabric Policies | Monitoring Policies | Default.
  2. Create a Syslog entry for the default and Common policies, by clicking on CallHome/SNMP/Syslog, selecting Syslog as the source type in the work pane, and clicking on the plus sign. Select the data collector created in step 1:
  1. Repeat the process for the Access Policies, creating the Syslog object in the default policy.

How it works...

The logs should start to come into the Syslog server (in this case, Kiwi Syslog...

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