Cisco Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.3.1 User Guide

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Managing Cisco APIC Connections

 For more information, refer to detailed Cisco APIC documentation located here: 

Connecting APIC as a Platform Element (PE)

Your first step is to connect the Cisco APIC platform element using the Connect Cloud Infrastructure. To do this, you 
follow the same provisioning procedure as all the other platform elements. See 

 for more information

Updating the APIC PE would be also following the update procedure for Cisco IAC PEs.

Creating a VDC for the OpenStack APIC-Enabled Cloud Platform

To create a VDC for the OpenStack APIC-enabled cloud platform, follow the same setup steps as you would for creating 
any VDC. See 

 for more information.

 We recommend that you use “APIC” somewhere in the name of the VDC you are creating for APIC.

Creating a Network in OpenStack VDC APIC-Enabled

Create the OpenStack VDC APIC-enabled network and subnet as you would normally. This one will be APIC-enabled. 
See 

 for more information. 

 For more information, refer to detailed APIC documentation located here: 

Creating the Cisco APIC Network Policy

To create an APIC Network Policy you perform the following steps.

Select My Cloud > My VDCs.

On the My VDCs page, find the OpenStack APIC-enabled VDC you want to provision an APIC network policy for.

Select the gear icon 

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 next to the OpenStack VDC.

From the popup, select the APIC - Create Network Policy icon.

Fill in the selectable fields on the Create Network Policy form, under the APIC Network Policy Details section.

Some fields have pre-populated default values that cannot be changed in Cisco IAC 4.3.1.

APIC Application Profile Name: This is the name of the APIC Application Profile associated with the VDC.

Action: The action to be taken on the filtered traffic, such as “Allow”.