Description
The infrastructure controller is the main architectural component of the Cisco ACI solution. It is the unified point of automation and management for the Cisco ACI fabric, policy enforcement, and health monitoring. The APIC appliance is a centralized, clustered controller that optimizes performance and unifies operation of physical and virtual environments. The controller manages and operates a scalable multitenant Cisco ACI fabric. The main features of the controller include:
Application-centric network policies
Data-model-based declarative provisioning
Application and topology monitoring and troubleshooting
Third-party integration (Layer 4 through Layer
