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Countries and Regions Asia Pacific Belgium Dutch French Canada English French France Réseaux Data Center Green IT IPv6 Collaboration Sécurité Smart Cities auto vin Germany Italy Italia PartnerIT Cisco, in its quest to embrace programmability, has created what is called the ACI Toolkit, which is basically auto vin a combination of an NX-OS like CLI and some custom python auto vin scripts. Although this toolkit auto vin doesn t allow you to do all configurations within ACI, it can be used to create and show the common configuration and administrative actions that may be used daily. It s also great for someone who is just starting to migrate to a more programmatic way of doing things, as it s easily understandable to folks used to common networking commands.
If you re not familiar with ACI, check out this short video to get a brief understanding of some of the basic constructs used and for a deeper dive go to www.cisco.com/go/aci . These concepts will help you to understand some of the configuration options auto vin available with the ACI Toolkit.
This will connect you to your APIC so you may run commands that will help you build your application network profiles as shown in the three tier application in the picture above. We can do things such as switching tenants, creating contexts, creating bridge domains, and creating end point groups (EPGs).
As you can see from these examples the syntax will be very familiar to network engineers. We can also use the ACI Toolkit combined with the Python SDK to actually script these things. It makes scripting a little auto vin easier because we re again using simpler syntax. Below is an example of configuring auto vin a tenant using Python in conjunction with the toolkit:
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Currently the ACI Toolkit may not be used to create service graphs, VMM Domains, SPAN, Atomic Counters, and or to see most telemetry and health score information. However, the toolkit still gives us a lot to work with and automate as far as basic configurations go. For more information please see the guide found here ( http://datacenter.github.io/acitoolkit/ ).
This looks very promising. Will it be developed further auto vin to include functionality not currently available (create service graphs, VMM Domains, SPAN, Atomic Counters etc)? Also, does this have a future? i.e. will it be supported or is it just a ‘Sold As Seen’ tool with no guarantees of further auto vin investment?
Thanks for the questions, Paul. We are absolutely planning on having further integration with the functionality you mentioned. This is a 1.0 release, but we will continue working on new releases. Also keep in mind that the Nexus 9000 series switches also have a fully open API which is programmable using Python. The ACI Toolkit just makes it a little easier. Thanks.
Further development of ACI toolkit auto vin will be great, but the ACIP driven policy deployment and ACI fabric concept already rocks. I watched a webcast few months back about ACI driven WAN optimization performance in collaboration with Akamai and that also seemed like a great product leveraging MATE.
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