Cisco ACI – Configuring by POSTing JSON
If you are configuring Cisco ACI datacenter fabric it will sooner or later get to the point that you need to configure multiple objects inside the GUI which will, by using the click-n-click method, take a huge amount of time.
While using POSTMAN to create multiple objects of the same type is the preferred method that everybody is speaking about (because you can generate REST API calls using Python or something similar), the quickest way to do it is using POST of JSON configuration file directly through the GUI.
POSTing JSON config example
As described above, the POST of JSON for some simple yet repetitive configuration is the way to go. Let’s see how it’s done:
Creating multiple BDs inside a tenant in Cisco ACI: