ACI REST API for creating a Spine Switch Profile with Spine Selectors

[Edvard Franke]

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was trying some name and simple nameing link SwitchProfileSelector101 seeams to work,

but still searching for this strange name or id when you creating it over the gui.

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Hi everyone,
during i try to script my aci deployment, i trapped into the situation, that the spine switch Profiles with the Spine Selectors cant be created with a script, because there are needed values for nodeblock are some strange id, like "5ea4c3c7e79e0138".

Some one may are also facing the same issue and solve it or know a workaround.

this is my request and the nameblock is my issue...

https://apic.aci.com/api/node/mo/uni/infra/spprof-{{ spinenodeId }}".json

{
  "infraSpineP": {
    "attributes": {
      "dn": "uni/infra/spprof-{{ spinenodeId }}",
      "name": "{{ spinenodeId }}",
      "rn": "spprof-{{ spinenodeId }}",
      "status": "created,modified"
    },
    "children": [
      {
        "infraSpineS": {
          "attributes": {
            "dn": "uni/infra/spprof-{{ spinenodeId }}/spines-{{ spinenodeId }}-typ-range",
            "type": "range",
            "name": "{{ spinenodeId }}",
            "rn": "spines-{{ spinenodeId }}-typ-range",
            "status": "created"
          },
          "children": [
            {
              "infraNodeBlk": {
                "attributes": {
                  "dn": "uni/infra/spprof-{{ spinenodeId }}/spines-{{ spinenodeId }}-typ-range/nodeblk-5ea4c3c7e79e0138",
                  "from_": "{{ spinenodeId }}",
                  "to_": "{{ spinenodeId }}",
                  "name": "5ea4c3c7e79e0138",
                  "rn": "nodeblk-5ea4c3c7e79e0138",
                  "status": "created"
                },
                "children": []
              }
            },
            {
              "infraRsSpineAccNodePGrp": {
                "attributes": {
                  "tDn": "uni/infra/funcprof/spaccnodepgrp-spine_spg",
                  "status": "created"
                },
                "children": []
              }
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Cheers
Ed

[Edvard Franke]

was trying some name and simple nameing link SwitchProfileSelector101 seeams to work,

but still searching for this strange name or id when you creating it over the gui.

[RedNectar · Accepted solution]

Hi @ed,

Can I assume from your 2nd contibuton that you've figured it out?  You can use any name you want - it doesn't have to be the same as the GUI uses.

This is the JSON from a Spine in one of our labs - built from a script of course.  As you can see we use pretty ordinaty names.  You don't need any more than what's here (and even that could be trimmed)

{
    "totalCount": "1",
    "imdata": [{
        "infraSpineP": {
            "attributes": {
                "annotation": "",
                "descr": "ISN Underlay config - setup by setup_MSO Lab Prereq",
                "dn": "uni/infra/spprof-infra:S2101_SpineProf",
                "name": "infra:S2101_SpineProf",
                "nameAlias": "",
                "ownerKey": "",
                "ownerTag": "",
                "userdom": ":all:"
            },
            "children": [{
                "infraSpineS": {
                    "attributes": {
                        "annotation": "",
                        "descr": "ISN Underlay config - setup by setup_MSO Lab Prereq",
                        "name": "2101",
                        "nameAlias": "",
                        "ownerKey": "",
                        "ownerTag": "",
                        "type": "range",
                        "userdom": ":all:"
                    },
                    "children": [{
                        "infraNodeBlk": {
                            "attributes": {
                                "annotation": "",
                                "descr": "ISN Underlay config - setup by setup_MSO Lab Prereq",
                                "from_": "2101",
                                "name": "SpineISN",
                                "nameAlias": "",
                                "to_": "2101",
                                "userdom": ":all:"
                            }
                        }
                    }]
                }
            }, {
                "infraRsSpAccPortP": {
                    "attributes": {
                        "annotation": "",
                        "tDn": "uni/infra/spaccportprof-infra:S2101_IntProf",
                        "userdom": ":all:"
                    }
                }
            }]
        }
    }]
}

[Edvard Franke]

Hi Chris,

thank you for your Feedback and yes i figured it out. The naming is just confusing for a beginner.

Cheers
Ed