Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Programmability

Fabric Resource Calculation

To calculate the resource per fabric node.

Installation

Install the Cisco APIC Python SDK using the documentation here: https://cobra.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html.

How to use

All the codes support three different input methods that are wizard, yaml, and cli.

  1. wizard: configure a mo by following a wizard.

    Usage: python policyTCAM.py wizard

    To get the help info: python policyTCAM.py wizard â€"h

  2. yaml: configure a mo with a config file (yaml format).

    Usage: python policyTCAM.py yaml policyTCAM.yaml

    To get the help info: python policyTCAM.py yaml â€"h

    There is a sample of yaml file. Please check out the argument format from the sample yaml file.

  3. cli: configure a mo based on you python arguments.

    It contains key arguments and optional arguments. Flags are used in order to call the optional arguments.

    Usage: python policyTCAM.py cli 172.31.216.100 admin ins3965! -n 101 102 -t '5 mins'

    To get the help info: python policyTCAM.py cli â€"h

What are those codes

createMo.py: the basic class/module. It also contains useful functions that help programmers for writing their customized scripts.

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