Overview
Cisco APIC Release 6.2(2) introduces a modern, page-based GUI featuring dark mode and streamlined navigation for improved ease of use. The update provides enhanced visibility through tabbed layouts, detailed fault diagnostics, and a "top-N" interface stats table for efficient performance monitoring. Additionally, this release also offers intuitive, color-coded organization and the flexibility to toggle between the new and classic interfaces across key management pages easily.
The Cisco APIC release 6.2(2) includes numerous UI revisions for enhanced ease of use, a page-based layout, dark mode support, and quicker navigation with fewer clicks. You can toggle between the new UI and old UI from the profile management icon on the upper right of any page. You can also switch from old view to new view on the dashboard page, fabric interface page, and the faults page with the toggle button in the top right corner.
Initial Tenant Support
The new APIC GUI introduces an ehanced tenant view. In the navigation pane, click on Manage, Tenant, and tenantname. In this view, you can see application, networking, contracts, operational, faults, history, and statistics objects in a tab layout.
Faults
The new APIC GUI interface has improved fault insights. Fault delegate shows which configured object the original fault is related to.
You can view all fault instances on the faults overview page by navigating to Analyze in the left side menu bar, then selecting Faults. Click on a specific fault count to see the configured the object, affected object, the fault code, and description. From there, click on the fault name in the What’s Wrong column to bring up the fault overview. This process allows you to drill down from a summary of faults to detailed fault properties and troubleshooting information.
Interface stats table
The new APIC GUI displays an enhanced interface stats table where you can see interface stats in a tab view. This table displays top-N interfaces based on various interface counters across the switches in the GUI. For instance, you can see top-10 interfaces with the highest unicast packet counts, allowing you to compare interface usage within a single view.
Switch interface
This view offers an enhanced diagram with color-coded mapping for better distinction, understanding, and visual clarity. This page also delivers quicker results and requires fewer navigation steps.
Contract Matrix
The matrix view provides an intuitive way to see which entities such as EPGs, ESGs, External EPGs, Microsegmented EPGs, can communicate with each other and what policies govern that communication. In this view, you can filter by entity type (EPG, ESG, L3Out, Useg EPG) and you can see more information about the contracts, subjects, and filters by clicking on each individual cell.
Shadow policies
When you are viewing a tenant in the new APIC GUI, all configurations are displayed by default. The old GUI allowed you to hide NDO-posted configurations through the global application settings, however the new GUI presents the complete set of configurations and policy shadow objects automatically.