Operating Cisco NEXUS Dashboard

The Operating Cisco NEXUS Dashboard lab is a virtual environment hosted inside WWT's ATC. To access the environment, launch the lab, and the virtual application and simulated hardware will be reserved for the duration. Once the lab is reserved, credentials and remote access information will be supplied to access a jump box into the lab environment. A lab guide explores everyday NEXUS Dashboard administrative tasks, including backup, remote storage, remote authentication, software upgrades, Intersight setup, adding fabrics, and managing the platform, which are all included in the lab.

This document provides instructions for the Operating Cisco NEXUS Dashboard Lab in the WWT Advanced Technology Center (ATC). This lab is designed to give deployment engineers practice with configuration before deploying in the field.

Class Outline

Overview of the NEXUS Dashboard platform GUI version 3.2

System settings. Adding routes for the data network, and External Service pools (Persistent IPs)

Exporting Events via Syslog

Creating a Tech-Support job to collect files for TAC

Adding NFS and SFTP Remote Storage to the NEXUS Dashboard Platform

Creating local and remote users and roles via LDAP

Intersight and how it is used and connected to Intersight

Creating a NEXUS Dashboard backup

Multi-Cluster Connectivity. Adding multiple NEXUS Dashboards.

Viewing History and Audit logs

Monitoring the NEXUS Dashboard cluster and services

NEXUS Dashboard upgrades and upgrading to version 3.2.1i

Bootstrapping ACI simulator for use to onboard a fabric

Onboarding two ACI simulators as fabrics to the NEXUS Dashboard 

Dual ACI simulators running 6.x code

Nexus Dashboard 3.x code

VMware vCenter running 7.x code