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Learning path
Operating the Cisco NEXUS Dashboard Platform
Skill Level
Intermediate
Duration 2 hours 50 minutes
Updated Feb 25, 2025
About this learning path
Cisco has been at the forefront of developing a suite of standalone tools for data center networking, collectively known as the Day 2 Operations Suite. Recently, Cisco has initiated the integration of these tools into a unified interface called NEXUS Dashboard, providing a consolidated view and shared data repositories for enhanced application correlation. This Learning path is designed specifically for those administrators that need to perform and manage the day to day upkeep of the NEXUS Dashboard product. The learning path will include videos, article and a hands on lab going over what a typical admin would need to setup on NEXUS Dashboard. We will cover whats new with NEXUS Dashboard 3.2, creating routes for the management and data networks, creating syslog server, remote NFS and SFTP storage, creating backups, and upgrading the version. We will also go through remote authentication with radius, creating users and roles, and Intersight configuration. Finally we will bring up 2 ACI simulators and onboard the ACI fabrics to the NEXUS Dashboard platform.
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Prerequisites
- Understanding of VMware vSphere to power on VMs and manage the console
- Knowledge of ACI GUI to login to the ACI simulators
- Use of SFTP for backup and restore
- Remote login domains using authentication such as radius
What you'll learn
- What's new in NEXUS Dashboard 3.2
- Adding routes for the management and data network
- Creating a syslog server and exporting events via syslog
- Adding NFS and SFTP Storage to the NEXUS Dashboard Platform
- Creating local and remote users and roles via radius and AV-Pairs for role based authorization
- Multi-Cluster Connectivity. Adding multiple NEXUS Dashboards.
- Intersight connector configuration and how it is used and connected to Intersight
- Creating a NEXUS Dashboard backup to a remote SFTP server
- NEXUS Dashboard upgrades and upgrading to version 3.2
- Viewing History and Audit logs
- Creating a Tech-Support job to collect files for TAC
- Bootstrapping ACI simulators for use to onboard a fabric
- Onboarding a NEXUS Dashboard fabric