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Cisco ACI – API Calls vs

JSON POST ▪ Index
 Valter Popeskic  Data Center with Cisco , Software De�ned ▪ Fundamentals
Datacenters  1 Comment
▪ Troubleshooting
▪ Con�guration
API CALLS METHOD
▪ Software De�ned
The fancy way of con�guring Cisco ACI Fabric is by using Python
Datacenters
script for generating API calls. Those API calls are then used to
con�gure Cisco ACI by pushing those calls to APIC controller ▪ Data Centers with
using POSTMAN (or similar tool). Con�guration changes done this VMware
way are those that you are doing often and without much chance ▪ Data Centers with
of making mistakes. Cisco
▪ Routing
You write a Python script and that script will take your
con�guration variables and generate API call that will con�gure ▪ Switching

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▪ IPv6
The thing is that you need to take the API call example and use
Python to write a script that will recreate that API calls with your ▪ Protocols
variables of con�guration and do that correctly. You need to know ▪ Voice
to code in Python and you will need a certain amount of time to
▪ Devices
write that script.
▪ Networking Tips & Tricks

POST JSON FILE METHOD ▪ About this project

▪ About the author
If you are making some initial con�guration of ACI Fabric and you
need to create 50 Bridge domains, or you need to quickly add ▪ Books
200 host routes to some EPG it will be slow to make those con�gs
by clicking through the GUI but writing Python script which will
generate API call for that con�g will surely take a lot of time too.
This is true if you do that kind of con�g for the �rst time and you Search the site
don’t have that script ready.

The reasoning about this is that it is worth to write the script if the Search
con�g mentioned will be used all the time, so you spend more
time in the beginning to write the script and then every next time
this script will do the job for you. But if it is a con�g that will be
used once a year then maybe it isn’t worth the time you will
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spend on that script creation and POST of JSON will do.
What is Cisco ACI?
THE DIFFERENCE
Software-de�ned data
The thing to note is that by using API calls as a method you are center and what’s the way
able to add, edit and delete objects inside ACI con�guration and to do it
POST of JSON will only enable you to add missing objects and it
will not be able to delete stu�. CLOS Topology

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 If you want to know more about how to use JSON con�g POSTing JSON
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Nnnanna O
Obbub a DECEMBER 30, 2019
There’s really not much of a di�erence between using an API call
and posting a json �le..For deleting objects in ACI, you would
need to change the status of the object from “created,modi�ed”
to deleted in your json �le.
R
Reeppllyy

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