APIC CLI

[rishad ahammed]

I am practicing ACI lab from cisco. I am accessing the LAB through GUI. Is there any way to use CLI command from GUI portal itself ?

[Sergiu.Daniluk]

There is no native way to send CLI commands from APIC GUI.

If you want to practice the APIC CLI, you can install your own APIC simulator.

Stay safe,

Sergiu

[AJ Cruz]

And to piggyback on what Sergiu said, CLI configuration of ACI is not advisable in production.

In my experience configuration via the CLI auto-creates many objects that are named terribly.

Also, the CLI isn't really a true shell for the device. It's an illusion of a shell or a wrapper.

It may be useful in helping learn ACI, but in practice I would stick to GUI or API calls with Python libraries or automation tools such as Ansible or Terraform.