Get Started¶

Lab environment¶

For the session “name of session” click on green ‘View’ button
Click on ‘Details’ a pop up windows with Session Details will show up. Scroll below on the session details.

Locate the AnyConnect Credentials and use AnyConnect on your local device to connect to the lab.

Note

Your credentials will defer from what is mentioned in the screen shot

If you do not have a AnyConnect hard client you can login via the browser as well.

Use the Host provided above and https to that host (Example: https://dcloud-rtp-anyconnect.cisco.com)

Your hostname might differ from the example

Once VPN connection is sucessful then RDP to the windows client.
Back to the Details section on the main session page you will see the topology with various end points. Hover over each end point to locate the login credentials
- Hover over the wkst1 icon to get login credentails of the windows remote desktop
- From your local device RDP to the windows workstation
- Once RDP session is successful the lab exercises will be executed from the RDP session

For guidance: IP and credentials are mentioned below but each of the components below has a shortcut located on the RDP client

Name	IP	Credentials	Remarks
RDP client	198.18.133.36	username: dcloud\demouser password: C1sco12345
BIG-IP	198.18.128.130	admin/admin	Bookmark in RDP browser
APIC	198.18.133.200	admin/C1sco12345	Bookmark in RDP browser
Linux Host	198.18.134.150	root/C1sco12345	Session saved in Putty

The next few sections will go over the following in sequence

What L2-L3 APIC configuration is pre-configured and what L4-L7 configuration needs to be done
Navigate the F5 ACI ServiceCenter application and work through the different use cases
Look at how we can use API’s using POSTMAN to execute workflows
Use Ansible playbooks to automate tasks using F5 ACI ServiceCenter
Look at different F5 deployment options

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