You can add Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrestructure) as a data source in VMware Aria Operations for Networks. This feature is available only for the enterprise license users.
Prerequisites
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You must verify the following information:
- The data source and its version is supported in VMware Aria Operations for Networks. For more information, see Supported Products and Versions.
- The data source follows VMware Ports and Protocols supported in VMware Aria Operations for Networks. For more information, see VMware Ports and Protocols.
- To connect to the APIC controller REST API over HTTPS, you must have access to all the tenants and have the read-only privilege.
- For SNMP, you must have the read-only permission.
- To authenticate Cisco ACI, you must have a local user role with the following privileges:
- Security Domain: all
- Role: admin
- Access: read
Procedure
- From the left navigation pane, go to .
- Click Add Source.
- Under Others, select Cisco ACI.
- In the Add a new Cisco ACI Account or Source page, provide the following details:
Option Action Collector VM Select a collector VM from the drop-down menu. IP Address/FQDN Provide the IP address of an APIC controller in the cluster. Note: You do not have to add the individual switches in the ACI fabric.Username Enter the user name. Note: If the user is a domain user, then you must add apic: before the user name. For example: if the user name is user1 and if the user belongs to the domain domain1 then specify the user name as apic:domain1\\user1. The domain name is case-sensitive.Password Enter the password. - Click Validate.
- To enable a richer data collection, click Use SNMP (recommended for richer data collection) check box, and do the following:
- From the SNMP Version drop-down menu, select an SNMP version. Depending on which version of SNMP you have selected, do the following:
Option Action 2c In the Community String text box, enter a community string. 3 - Enter Username, Context Name.
- From the Authentication Type drop-down, select an authentication type and enter the Authentication Password.
- From the Privacy Type drop-down, select a privacy type and enter the Privacy Password.
- From the SNMP Version drop-down menu, select an SNMP version. Depending on which version of SNMP you have selected, do the following:
- Define the polling interval for the configuration data collection. You can set the polling interval from 10 minutes to 7 days.
- Preset - Select the interval time from the predefined time set.
- Custom Interval - Set a value and select Minutes, Hours, and Days.
- Fixed Schedule - Select the days and set the time to schedule the interval.
- (Optional) In the Nickname text box, enter a nickname.
- (Optional) In the Notes text box, add a note if necessary.
- Click Submit.
Results
Note:
VMware Aria Operations for Networks supports only the following features of Cisco ACI:
- Neighbor discovery (CDP and LLDP)
- Endpoint group (EPG)
- L3Out EPG
- EPG gateway
- Bridge domain
- VRF
- IPv4 routing
- Contract (in network assurance and verification)
The following features are not supported:
- Fabric extender (FEX)
- IPv6
- Layer 3 EVPN
- Multi-pod
- Multi-site