Onboard Cisco ACI Fabrics
This section describes how to onboard one or more Cisco ACI fabrics to your Nexus Dashboard.
Before you begin
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You can on-board only 1 type of fabric (Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), NDFC, or standalone Cisco NX-OS) within the same cluster.
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Onboarding a mix of Cisco ACI and NDFC devices or NDFC and Cisco NX-OS devices within the same cluster is not supported. The exception is you can import Cisco ACI Multi-Site Inter-Fabric Network and Inter-Pod Network devices in a Cisco ACI fabric for use with Nexus Dashboard Insights.
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Fabric connectivity must be already configured as described in Fabric Connectivity.
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EPG/L3Out for Nexus Dashboard data network IP connectivity must be already configured as described in Fabric Connectivity.
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IP connectivity from Nexus Dashboard to Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) in-band IP over the data network must be already configured.
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IP connectivity from Nexus Dashboard to the leaf nodes' and spine nodes' in-band IPs over the data network must be already configured.
Procedure
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Navigate to . |
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Click Add Fabric. This starts the fabric onboarding workflow. |
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Choose Manually Add, then choose Controller Based Fabric. If you don't have the Insights service installed, this selection will not be visible and fabric onboarding defaults to this option. |
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Step 4 |
Provide fabric information.
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Step 5 |
Provide additional fabric Details.
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Step 6 |
In the Summary page, verify the information and click Save to finish adding the fabric. |