topic Re: APIC-EM API to change configuration? in Controllers

APIC-EM API to change configuration?

mikec85arm — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 12:39:46 GMT

I am not seeing any API's to edit the config's on the devices, routers or switches etc. Are those just not exposed?

Thanks

Mike

Re: APIC-EM API to change configuration?

Vince — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:49:34 GMT

The way I understand it, the available API of APIC-EM are the ones related to its features. Those are the things that you see on the left side of the screen when you login to APIC-EM HTTP (Discovery, Device and Host inventory, network plug and play, path trace, iwan, etc....)

You can use network plug and play api if your aim is to set up a task to autoconfigure a device.

If you want to configure / edit a configuration of specific devices, I would say use netconf / restconf.

Re: APIC-EM API to change configuration?

Cullen.Humphries — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:38:28 GMT

I was looking around for this also.

But I have decided to use APIC-EM to get the configuration, parse it against whatever checks, and then use Paramiko or Netmiko (python) to directly access the device and change the devices config through ssh.

Re: APIC-EM API to change configuration?

ngoldwat — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 21:38:40 GMT

That is an interesting use of APIC-EM as it is not designed to be a NMS although it will perform discovery and inventory functions.

Cool.

Re: APIC-EM API to change configuration?

aradford — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 05:07:02 GMT

there are API to change/deploy QoS today, and IWAN app also have a "descriptive" configuration option which allows you to run a series of commands on devices.

Over time there will be greater day-n configuration control.

Re: APIC-EM API to change configuration?

Cullen.Humphries — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 19:21:08 GMT

Well we are also using Cisco Prime, which has some similar features.

However, we want to do some configuration scripting that would be hard to set-up or impossible in prime.

I was planning to do something similar with .csv files from prime, but with the API provided by APIC-EM it is a LOT simpler to parse the needed information.

Re: APIC-EM API to change configuration?

Jason Belk — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:33:30 GMT

Config management orchestration is Cisco/Tail-f's NSO main selling point (apart from end to end service orchestration). NSO converts traditional CLI into structured data for programmatic consumption and creating services.

Re: APIC-EM API to change configuration?

Vince — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:28:42 GMT

why not use netconf / restconf?

Re: APIC-EM API to change configuration?

uwankhed — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 06:55:37 GMT

I was also trying to figure out how to push config change to device thru APIC-EM. You have mentioned about possibility of using IWAN config option to achieve this. Would you be able to share the details of northbound APIs on this? I tried looking at swagger docs (Cisco DevNet: APIC Enterprise Module - Docs), but couldn't locate any.

Thanks

Re: APIC-EM API to change configuration?

aradford — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 07:08:08 GMT

It will not be possible in APIC-EM.

DNAC which is just about to be released will support Day-n configuration change.

Re: APIC-EM API to change configuration?

uwankhed — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 08:46:37 GMT

NSO translates yang/template config to device specific configuration and pushes thru NEDs. Is there a similar way to push the config thru APIC-EM (not raw config though)? e.g. how to configure L2VPN across different device models.

I know EasyQoS comes close to this and internally translates to device commands, but that is only for QoS feature. How to do other features?