One-time import of Cisco ACI infrastructure - Adaptive Applications - BlueCat Gateway - 24.1.1

BlueCat Cisco ACI Adaptive Plugin Guide

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24.1.1

After you've updated the Discovered tenant list, you can perform a one-time discovery (import) of Cisco ACI infrastructure data into BAM, without using scheduled discoveries.

To perform a one-time import of Cisco ACI tenant infrastructures into the Address Manager configuration:

  1. If you haven't already done so, use the BlueCat Cisco ACI workflow to discover the available tenants on your Cisco ACI infrastructure.

  2. Specify how you want tenant information to be added to BAM Configurations:

    1. To import each tenant into its own BAM Configuration, click Default (above the table of tenants). Cisco ACI will create new configurations in Address Manager as needed.

    2. To import information from all tenants into a single BAM configuration, click Custom and enter the name of the BAM Configuration that you want to use. If that Configuration does not exist, BlueCat Cisco ACI will create it.

    For more details on how the BlueCat Cisco ACI plugin works with BAM Configurations, see Imported ACI Tenant data and Address Manager Configurations.

  3. In the Discovered tenants table, choose the tenants whose information you want to import .

    Tip: To filter the tenant list, enter a search term in the Search box. To adjust the number of tenants displayed at a time in the list, select the desired count in the Show box.

    To do so, for each discovered tenant:

    • To import that tenant, select its Import Tenant checkbox.

    • To import that tenant's devices, also select its Import end point Devices checkbox.

    • (Optional) Also select or clear the Overwrite Existing checkbox depending on whether you want ACI Tenant components that already exist as objects in BAM to overwrite the existing BAM objects.

      The conflict resolution behavior is complex. For a detailed description of what the BlueCat Cisco ACI workflow considers a "conflict" and how those conflicts are resolved, see Reference: Conflicts with existing data in BAM.

      Note: These tenant import settings (Import Tenant, Import end point devices, Overwrite Existing, and Schedule) have no effect on the import of ACI Fabric devices.
  4. Make sure that the Enable discovery schedule checkbox is cleared.

  5. When you've selected all the tenants and items that you want to import, click Run discovery.

    The BlueCat Cisco ACI workflow imports details about the selected tenants into a configuration into Address Manager.

    Tip: If any new tenants are found during a scheduled discovery job, they will be added to the Discovered tenants list when you refresh the browser page (or click Reload tenants).