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Nexus 9 ethanalyzer for data plane traffic
Hello community, It's my understanding that tcpdump and ethanalyzer only capture at the control plane natively. Judging by my use of them not capturing anything otherwise, this does seem to be true. I need to do some ICMP captures on interfaces so i...
How much server required for APIC-EM lab use?
Hi all,I am hoping to find out what some of you have used for your APIC-EM server in your home lab. My goal is to figure out how much hardware someone might need to purchase to run APIC-EM bare-metal. (I would likely run it under ESXi, but the bare-m...
Resolved! Intersight API inconsistent results for memory units various API calls
I have been using the get_memory_unit_list python API call and historically the OperState field has returned "operable" or "inoperable". Now for X210cM7 servers, it returns "OK". I have also observed that get_compute_physical_summary has changed the ...
Resolved! Unable to Access Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (NDO) Sandbox
Hi Team,I’m trying to access the Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (NDO) sandbox via Cisco DevNet, but I’m unable to find it in the current sandbox catalog. I’ve read about the ND v2.2 release and the availability of NDO for multi-site ACI policy testing,...
The Benefits of Disabling Ongoing Atomic Counters on ACI Environments
We have great news regarding ACI: you now have 8 less faults to deal with. Effective immediately, you can get rid of all your Fault Code F1545 to F1552. Read more in the APIC Troubleshooting TechNotes: Disable ACI on Going Atomic Counters - Fault C...
can Nexus 93108TC-FX3 use only 3 QSFP28 ports as breakout port
Hi, I am planning to use 3 of the QSFP28 ports of the Cisco Nexus 93108TC-FX3 as breakout interfaces for 12 servers with SFP+ interfaces, and the other 3 QSFP ports as VPC or uplink. Is this possible?
Intersight PowerShell to suppress Alarms on Servers
Hi,I'm looking for any pointers on how to start/stop Intersight alarm suppression on individual servers that we are rebooting for general maintenance tasks using Intersight PowerShell commands. I have been playing with commands like 'New-IntersightCo...
SFTP configuration on Nexus3000
Good morning, I've got to manage several Nexus3000 Switches. I'm unable to configure sftp archive from the Nexus itself as the sftp functionality is not available. What would be the best procedure to do so? I already have a ftp server where i could b...
Please assist on a daily SFTP backup using phyton on Cisco Nexus 9K
I want to take a daily configuration backup of a nexus 9k switch using a phyton script to an SFTP server. Please assist with the configuration.
Query on Cisco EoX(End of Life/End of Sale) API
we are running our in-house automation tool for patching/vulnerabilities across all the network devices. As of currently, we are maintaining the EoL/EoS database of all Cisco based devices/ PIDs(both Hardware and Software) in our automation tool and ...
Accessing Intersight data from power BI ?
Hi, anyone managed to connect Power BI to intersight using the REST API ? I've tried following some guidelines but couldn't achieve it.I created the API Key and got the secret Key, with some online help managed to setup the Power BI query to invoke a...
ACI APIC Network-As-Code interface configuration
Hi, I have difficulties configuring vpc port to a couple of leaf-switches.I'm using Network As Code trying to do this. (https://netascode.cisco.com/data_model/apic/interface_policies/new_interface_config)But I'm not able to understand how to do it.I ...
Resolved! vManage Event and Alarm logs extract
Is there a way to extract the Event and Alarm logs from vManage for a long period like last 6 months? When i extract from the vManage, I get logs for a very short time since the row limit for the extract is 10000 and it is filled within very short t...
Is there an ACI API call to get the serial number of the target APIC?
ACII have a JSON list of APIC FQDNs:[ "apic1.fabric1.somewhere.net", "apic2.fabric1.somewhere.net", "apic3.fabric1.somewhere.net", "apic1.fabric2.somewhere.net", ...] I can step through that list and login to each APIC and get the list of A...
Resolved! Is there an ACI API call to get the serial number of the target APIC?
ACI have a JSON list of APIC FQDNs: [ "apic1.fabric1.test.net", "apic2.fabric1.test.net", "apic3.fabric1.test.net", "apic1.fabric2.test.net", ... ] I can step through that list and login to each APIC and get the list of APICs in that fabric's contr...
