ACI: Rack & Stack

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:31:00 +0000

Plumbing ACI is something that YouTube has you covered on. I wont reinvent that wheel. For the initial standup, I am doing the bare minimum connectivity; each leaf has one 40G uplink to each spine, meaning, 80G of North/South Bandwidth. This will double up when we are preparing for Production service, matching my UCS/FI Bandwidth between each Chassis (4x10G links to each side of my 2208XPs). My 3 APICs are configured as follows:

Why I Bought an Airconsole

Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:56:00 +0000

Today I was reminded what a great git of Kit the really is. Its essentially a box that gives you Serial Access to a device via an RJ45 (Cisco pin-out) using WiFi, Bluetooth or wired, using a web GUI, or a bonkers driver setup on your machine.

For me, I use the AirConsole at work in a jack of all trades way.

I cable the Serial Dongle to the Router
I have a WiFi client profile configured that will auto join my (pervasively configured) corporate dirty network.
I have a WiFi AP setup in the AirConsole that securely presents a new network that I can join to access the Serial Port
I have NAT configured on the AP->Client WiFi so that I can still access the internet from that client Laptop
I have the Ethernet port configured to bridge with the AP interface, so I can get a wired device to connect to the Serial setup, and the internet.

So, most of the time what I find myself doing is plugging in the AirConsole, then going to a nearby desk and connecting to the AirConsole Web interface via HTTPS over the dedicated WiFi. I can then configure my box, and still access the internet.

Troubleshooting on Problem of Network

ACI: Rack & Stack

Why I Bought an Airconsole