Viewing events

Events are not centrally collated, unlike faults. We need to go and find them. We need to keep an eye out for a History tab, like the one shown before. 

How to do it...

Let's look at how we can view events.

Tenant events

1. From the tenant, select History and then Events:

There is nothing to see here:

Fabric events

Let's look at the fabric. 

1. From the Fabric menu, select the pod, select History, and then select Events:

Here, we have some data.

2. Double-clicking on an event will bring up another window with more information:

AAA events

We can see what changes have been made to AAA by following these steps:

1. Go to Admin | AAA | AAA Authentication, then select the History tab, and then select Events:

Here, we can see the changes we made in Chapter 5, ACI Security, when we set up AAA authentication on the fabric. The cause is listed as a transition (because we made a change to an existing property), and we have a brief description. Double-clicking on an entry brings up more information, but does not...