Visualize Cisco ACI Networks

With NetBrain, you can quickly visualize and understand a Cisco ACI fabric from the following aspects:

• The objects in your Cisco ACI Fabric, such as ACI PODs, IPN, ISN, and their topology.
• The detailed information about a node, such as properties, chassis, interfaces, and fabric extenders.
• The overlay design over a Cisco ACI Fabric, such as logical layer dependency and connectivity inside or outside an application.
• More data information by applying data views.

User Flow

Prerequisites: Make sure the discovery and benchmark of your ACI network have been completed.

The general flow of visualizing an ACI network in the NetBrain system is as follows:

1. View your ACI network tree.
   NetBrain provides three views to help you better understand your ACI network:

• Network Centric View:
  • View ACI Network by Fabric POD
  • View ACI Network Structure by Tenant
• Application Centric View:
  • View ACI Network by Application Deployment

2. Calculate Path Across ACI Fabric.
3. Apply Data View Template to Visualize More Data.

For more information about context maps, refer to Supported Context Maps of ACI Nodes.