On the
Devices screen, the following tabs are displayed:
On the
Nodes
Learned tab, the following details are displayed for each node:
When you click the
node name under the tab
Node
Name, the
Update
Node Information window is displayed. Update the following fields
in the window:
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Node ID: Enter
the node ID.
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Node Name: The
name of the node.
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Tier: Select
the tier of the node from the following options in the drop-down list: Unknown,
Access, Distribution, and Core.
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Operation Mode:
Choose how the traffic is handled based on the flows. This can be one of the
following:
Allow reactive
forwarding—No default flows are programmed. How traffic that does not match a
flow is treated depends upon the switch implementation.
Proactive
forwarding only—The following default flows are programmed on the switch:
On the
Device
Connections tab, click
Add
Device to add a device, click
Remove
Devices to remove a device, or click
Rediscover
Devices to rediscover a device. When you click
Rediscover
Devices tab, the
Rediscover
Device window is displayed. Click
Rediscover
Device so that the device gets deleted and rediscovered again.
In each device
window, click
View,
Edit, or
Delete to add a device, edit an existing device, or
delete a device. The following details are displayed for each device in each
device window:
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The name of the
device and its IP address
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The username on
the device
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The type of the
mode, for example, NX-API
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The uptime on
the device, for example, date and time
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The hardware on
the node
On the
Device
Groups tab, click
+
Group to add a group of devices. In each group window, click
View,
Edit, or
Delete to add a group of devices, edit an existing
group of devices, or delete a group of devices respectively. The following
details are displayed in each group window:
-
The name of the
node group, for example, Node Group Name One
-
The names of the
nodes in the group, for example, nx-tap-agg-sw1 and nx-tap-agg-sw2
On the
SPAN
Management
tab, click
+ Add
Device to add an APIC device or the production switch to the
network. Click
Remove
Devices to delete the devices or click
Rediscover Devices to rediscover the devices. The
production switch should be a Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switch or Cisco Nexus
3000 Series switch in NXOS mode. The feature NXAPI has to be enabled on these
production switches.
The following
columns are displayed on the
SPAN
Management tab to display the information about the devices:
You must add an
APIC controller before you can set up SPAN session and SPAN destination.