Cisco ACI Configuration and Troubleshooting

Name: Cisco ACI Configuration and Troubleshooting
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This Course focus on day 2 day troubleshooting on Cisco ACI Solution with configuration example

Created byNetwork Strategist

Last updated 4/2025

English

What you'll learn

Cisco ACI Troubleshooting from Beginning
Various Cisco ACI tools for day to day troubleshooting like moquery, tcpdump, span, elam etc.
Understanding of packet flow in ACI Fabric
Fault and Event Analysis
Configuration and Validation of traffic flow using WEB, APP and DB Example
Push and Get Configuration using API using Postman
Various show command of APIC, Leaf and Spine use for day 2 day troubleshooting
Node Registration, Discovery, Underlay Protocol understanding
End to End Configuration towards Server and Traffic Flow Validation

Course content

8 sections • 31 lectures • 3h 43m total length

Introduction4:56
What you will learn ? This course is for whom ? What you should know before enrolling this course ?
Leaf and Spine Registration3:47
This lecture explain how to do Register Leaf and Spine after bringing up APIC Controller
Out of Band Management IP Address Assignment of Leaf and Spine2:02
This lecture explain how to allocated Out of Band Management IP address to leaf and Spine

APIC Display Setting0:58
APIC Display Setting
ACI Capacity Dashboard2:18
Therese is scale limit for each feature and object used in ACI Fabric, everything available in single page which is Capacity Dashboard.
APIC Show Command8:35
There are various Show command of APIC controller which help to identify if there is any issue in ACI Fabric, discovery between APIC and Leaf etc.
APIC System Setting17:25
There are various Setting make ACI Fabric optimize learning, data plane etc. Discussed the same in this Video
Backup and Restore3:20
Lets learn how to take backup and restore in case of loosing configuration and data.

Checking Traffic Utilization3:14
Not sure what could be reason of slowness or traffic drop at particular time ?
Collection of TechSupport4:45
Cisco TAC best guy to identify issue in your Network, but you need to give them details, lets understand how to take TechSupport file of APIC Controller, leaf and Spine.
Checking data of Fabric using PoD Inventory3:16
Lets learn how to check Fabric Inventory and their status
Validating and Push Config using APIC CLI5:47
Yes you heard it right, you can do configuration of ACI Fabric via CLI as well

Fabric Access Policy Configuration4:29
Yes I know that you know how to do configuration, but still lets do some revision together, start with Fabric Access Policy Configuration which include Vlan Pool, Physical Domain, AAEP, Interface Policies, Policy Group, Interface Profile, Switch Profile etc.
NTP Configuration and Validation4:29
Provide Right time to Fabric and pass it to Application is very important, lets learn how to do the same.
VPC Pair Configuration1:03
In my setup everything is in VPC, so I must do VPC Configuration
VPC Policy Configuration and Validation5:06
Doing VPC is not so difficult in Cisco ACI.
Configuration of Entire WEB, APP and DB Zone15:35
This long Video is just configuration of WEB, APP and DB Zone with its own EPG and BD. Call in their respective VRF and secured communication using Contract. If you know how to do this configuration, you can skip this lecture.
Traffic Validation from WEB to APP to DB1:28
After the configuration, we must validation these communication.
Verification of Leaf and Spine Discovery and Underlay13:34
Lets learn discovery and working of underlay in Leaf and Spine.

Troubleshooting Endpoint Reachability within EPG and between EPGs10:07
Its time to start troubleshooting connectivity between Endpoint, lets start with how to fix issue between two Endpoint within a EPG and between a EPG.
Troubleshooting Traffic flow between two Endpoint13:54
Lets troubleshoot reachability between two Endpoints.
Troubleshooting Traffic Flow between Endpoint and WAN Route11:16
Lets understand how to troubleshoot and fix connectivity between Endpoint and External WAN IP.
Identifying Packet Drop in ACI via Visibility and Troubleshooting Option5:28
Cisco APIC controller has amazing thing to identify where and what kind of packet drop in Fabric.
Understanding Transit Packet Flow using ELAM10:40
There is another way to troubleshooting transit packet issue, and its through ELAM.

Fault, Event and Audit Logs8:26
Monitoring of ACI Fabric is most crucial thing one must know, lets learn how to check fault, event, kpi.
Finding Configuration and data using Moquery16:35
Moquery is amazing and quick way to find anything from entire fabric. lets learn the same.
Push and Get Configuration using API11:44
You can do configuration using API as well, which is best way to do scale configuration.

Requirements

Basic Understanding of ACI and its Component

Description

This course is in detailed of Cisco ACI Troubleshooting and Management with various configuration example.

You will start your journey of this course with Leaf and Spine registration and then configuration of Management address. This continues further with various troubleshooting command of APIC.

This course further take you through entire configuration and verification of WEB, APP and DB which include both physical and logical configuration and verification.

There is detailed session help you to understand on various setting of APIC which optimize entire Fabric configuration, control plane and data plane flow.

Your learning continue with various troubleshooting scenario like connectivity between Endpoint to Endpoint, Connectivity between Endpoint to WAN IP, Connectivity between Endpoint within a EPG and between EPG, Troubleshooting packet flow using ELAM, Inbuild Tool of APIC and tcpdump.

Later on you will learn how to push and get configuration and data via API using postman. There is way to push configuration using APIC CLI and validate the same.

There are many more things you will learn through this course on day 2 day change management and troubleshooting.

As a pre-requisites of this course, one should have basic understanding and component of Cisco ACI Solution. If you are new to Cisco ACI Solution and want to learn from beginning, then start with below course and then jump to this course.

Course Title: Cisco ACI Architecture, Configuration and Monitoring

Who this course is for:

This course is for the engineer working in Implementation and Troubleshooting ACI Fabric on day 2 day basis.
This course also helps candidate preparing for interview on any ACI Role.
Engineering working in Opertion Team

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Course content

Introduction3 lectures • 11min

Troubleshooting of APIC Controller5 lectures • 33min

Capturing Packet2 lectures • 11min

Useful Tools of APIC for Day 2 Day Troubleshooting..4 lectures • 17min

Configuration and Validation7 lectures • 46min

Troubleshooting Packet Flow5 lectures • 51min

Validation and Troubleshooting ACI Fabric using CLI Command2 lectures • 18min

Monitoring and Collecting Data3 lectures • 37min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: