Creating fabric policies

In this recipe, we will create an NTP policy and assign it to our pod. NTP is a good place to start, as having a common and synced time source is critical for third-party authentication, such as LDAP and logging.

In this recipe, we will use the Quick Start menu to create an NTP policy, in which we will define our NTP servers. We will then create a POD policy and attach our NTP policy to it. Lastly, we'll create a POD profile, which calls the policy and applies it to our pod (our fabric).

We can assign pods to different profiles, and we can share policies between policy groups. So we may have one NTP policy but different SNMP policies for different pods:

The ACI fabric is very flexible in this respect.