ACI Advanced Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Chapter 2

Introduction to the ACI Policy Model

This chapter covers the following topics related to Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI):

• Policy model overview and key characteristics

• Management information tree

• Benefits of the ACI policy model

• Logical constructs

• Physical constructs

• Managed object relationships and policy resolution

• Tags

• Default policies

• How the policy model helps in diagnosis

The ACI policy model provides a convenient way of building application logic based on required policies. APIC automatically renders policies inside the fabric infrastructure. When an administrator or a process initiates a change in the configuration, the APIC actually executes it by changing the state of the objects in the ACI policy model. ...