topic Re: APIC-EM and PI Integration in Controllers

APIC-EM and PI Integration

javerill — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 12:40:14 GMT

Question to the group: What are the benefits for configuration the integration between APIC-EM And PI? We currently use PI only for wireless support. We are building an APIC-EM environment to deploy IWAN.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Jason

Re: APIC-EM and PI Integration

ngoldwat — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 17:58:16 GMT

I have a few questions too.

Will it be a greenfield IWAN deployment?

Will you need extensive changes made post deployment?

Integrating PI gives you extended template ability. It also causes headaches so if your PI is running smooth, I'd try to do everything in APIC-EM.

Re: APIC-EM and PI Integration

javerill — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 18:06:52 GMT

At this point, we are planning on it to be a complete greenfield deployment. ISR4000 series routers at the branches and ASR1001-X routers at the hubs. The underlays will consist of 2 Internet SPs at each branch, and a limited number of branches with an MPLS SP. Our goal is to phase out the MPLS SP over the course of time.

It's hard to predict any post deployment changes, but suspect there will be some.

Re: APIC-EM and PI Integration

ngoldwat — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 18:12:07 GMT

I'd test using it stand alone first.

Re: APIC-EM and PI Integration

javerill — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 18:22:11 GMT

Thanks!

We'll give it a go without the integration at this point.

Re: APIC-EM and PI Integration

aradford — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:48:58 GMT

Remember, with IWAN devices, APIC-EM supports "descriptive" config templates too.

Day-n you can define a template to apply to a set of devices (with a roll-back).

This is only for IWAN devices.

Adam

Re: APIC-EM and PI Integration

javerill — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:53:17 GMT

Thank you both for the feedback!

-Jason