FortiGate Connector for Cisco ACI

Service Graph

Create Service Graph

Right Click on L4-L7 Service Graph Template to create a Service Graph.

Field Description / Options
Name Name of the Service Graph
Node l One node l Two node
Type l Single Node Transparent l Routed

In our case it is transparent

Device Function Select the Device Package
Profile Select the Functional Profile created earlier from the drop down list

Deploy Service Graph

  1. Right Click on Service Graph defined from above and select Apply L4-L7 Service Graph Template.
  2. Select Consumer EPG and Provider EPG and input a contract name
  3. Select L4-L7 Device
  4. Ensure all fields turned Green, otherwise they will not get deploy/allow to modification later on. This is the last round of check before you hit to submit button to ensure everything is correct.

Modify Service Graph

  1. Navigate to Tenant>Provider EPG>L4-L7 Service Parameters and select the pen icon.
  2. On the next screen, select the Contract name, Graph Name and Node name from the drop down list and all the associated Service Graph Parameters will be displayed.
  3. Expand the field you want to make modification and change the appropriate value from the drop down list and then hit submit.

Remove Service Graph

  1. Navigate to Tenant>L4-L7 Services>L4-L7 Service Graph Templates and the deployed Service Template name, right click and select Remove Related Objects Of Graph Template.
  2. Select Contract and Provider EPG from the drop down list and check all 3 boxes:

l Remove Related Contract l Remove Related EPG Parameters l Remove Related Device Selection Policies

Hit Submit. This will remove all the related objects for this Service Graph.

Delete the Service Graph

  1. To delete the Service Graph Template, navigate to Tenant > L4-L7 Services > L4-L7 Service Graph Templates.
  2. Right click on template name listed on the left hand panel and select Delete

 

APIC Infrastructure and FortiGate rollback

APIC Infrastructure and FortiGate rollback

  1. Upload and unload device package
  2. Add and Delete device, FortiGate should clean-up previous configuration.
  3. Dynamically
 modify and update policies
  4. Detach and Attach service graphs
  5. Delete tenants while service graphs in use.

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