Cisco ACI Plugin

After you add the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) device on the Device Manager and you enable the Cisco ACI (Logical) and/or the Cisco ACI (Physical) topology sources on the Cluster Manager, these topology sources automatically discover Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) devices. Discovered devices have the Cisco ACI plugin enabled and are added to the corresponding device groups on the Device Groups page and device types on the Device Types page. This expedites the creation of Topology reports.

For devices you manually add, the Cisco ACI plugin requires device specific configuration and is therefore disabled by default.

The Cisco ACI plugin enables you to monitor the Cisco ACI tenant, Cisco ACI application profile, Cisco ACI EPG, controller aggregated interfaces, controller L3 management interfaces, controller physical interfaces, CPU, fan tray, line module, memory, physical interfaces, power supply unit, storage, supervisor module, and tunnel interfaces.

1. From the navigation bar, click the Devices menu and select Device Manager.

2. Either add a device with the Cisco ACI plugin or edit a device to configure the Cisco ACI plugin.

   • Click Add Device to display the New Device page.

   • Click to display the Edit Device page.

3. - Click the plugin drop-down (displays SNMP) and select Cisco ACI.

4. Select the Cisco ACI Capable check box.

5. In the Username field, enter the user name SevOne NMS needs to authenticate onto the device.

6. In the Password field, enter the password SevOne NMS needs to authenticate onto the server.

7. In the URL field, enter the URL of the Cisco APIC API in the following format: http(s)://<your_apic_ip>/api