The Topology section provides information on specific classes, attributes, relationships, and events related to the topology objects created to represent Cisco ACI.

Cisco ACI version 4.1 is supported in VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance.

For more information on getting the topology data, see the Discovery Configuration, in the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance Configuration Guide.

The following logical entities are created on the top of existing physical fabric:

Class Key Attributes Key relationship Problem and Event 
ControlCluster
 
IsAnyComponentDown
IsClusterDown 
IsEveryComponentDown
NumberOfComponent
NumberOfFaultyComponents 
ComposedOf
Manages
ProvidesClientServiceTo
 
AllComponentsDown
AtRisk 
Down
ReducedRedundancy
ControllerNode

Status

IsControllerDown

HostedBy

PartOf

 Down
Tenant NumberOfEPGs

ClientServiceProvidedBy

Owns

 None
BridgeDomain Name Associates None
EndPointGroup Name

AssociatedWith

ComposedOf

OwnedBy

Uses

 None
Contracts Name UsedBy

None
The table Support of Cisco ACI Components in IP describes the components which are discovered as a part of Cisco ACI
Table 1. Support of Cisco ACI Components in IP
ClassName Component Name Discovery Monitoring Comments
AggregatePort Aggregate Port / Port Channel YES YES Only AdminStatus are monitored.
BridgeDomain Bridge Domain YES NO BridgeDomains which are not associated to any EPG are not discovered.
Cable Cable YES YES
Card Line Card, Supervisory Card YES YES
Chassis Chassis YES YES
Contract Contract YES YES Contracts which are not associated to any EPG are not discovered.
ControlCluster APIC Cluster YES NO Events are raised based on ControllerNode monitoring.
ControllerNode APIC YES YES
EndPointGroup End Point Group (EPG) YES NO
Fan Fabric Switch Fan YES YES
Interface APIC interfaces YES YES
IP IP Address YES NO
IPNetwork IP Subnetwork YES NO
MAC MAC Address YES NO Created only for a network Connection, but not associated to a Port.
Memory Fabric Switch Memory YES YES Only Free Memory monitored.
Partition Partition YES NO
Port Fabric Switch Port YES YES Port use, error, and the discard rate are monitored with fault monitoring.
PowerSupply Fabric Switch Power supply YES YES
Processor Fabric Switch Processor YES NO Cisco does not expose APIs to monitor the processor use.
Switch Fabric Switch (Leaf and Spine) YES YES
TemperatureSensor Fabric Switch Temperature Sensor YES YES
Tenant Cisco ACI Tenant YES NO Tenants which are not associated to any EPG are not discovered.
TrunkCable 
Connection between Leaf to Spine
Leaf to Ext Switch, Spine to Ext Switch
 YES YES
vAggregatePort Virtual Port Channel YES NO
VLAN VLAN YES NO
Note: The Kafka_Service object is created to support fail-over as a part of discovery, for internal purposes. The text boxes DiscoveryTopic and Monitoring Topic are empty and must not be populated as they have no effect on either discovery or monitoring of Cisco ACI fabric.