Owner review of the v0.19.0 demo + Cisco docs/real spine CLI verification:
ACI spines name the VLAN-4 sub-if after the PORT (eth1/49.49, cf.
Eth1/29.29-style in show ip ospf neighbors vrf overlay-1); the ISN Nexus
names its dot1q-4 sub-if after the VLAN (Ethernet1/1.4). v0.19.0 had the
two conventions swapped. 908 tests green.
Real ACI multi-site spines carry the OSPF address toward the ISN on a
routed sub-interface, not the bare port: ospfIf id/dn are now
eth1/{49+si}.4 with addr=172.16.{site}.{si+1}/24 (same /24 as the
existing .254 peer); ospfAdjEp nests under the sub-if. Each spine ISN
uplink physical port also gets an ISN-CSW lldpAdjEp/cdpAdjEp
(sysName ISN-CSW{site}, portIdV Ethernet1/{si+1}, model N9K-C9364C,
locally-administered 02:1B:0D MAC hashed from site.id). Single-site
fabrics build none of this. Closes the autoACI Fabric (physical) gap
where spine uplink rows showed blank Local IP / Neighbor Port.
908 tests green.
Clean-room README test found a newcomer hits failures in the first 5 min —
all doc/script, not sim bugs. Fixes:
- scripts/run.sh: use ./.venv/bin/python (was bare `python` → ModuleNotFoundError:
uvicorn unless the venv was activated; now matches sandbox-up.sh).
- NEW `aci-sim query CLASS [--dn/--host/--json]`: stdlib aaaLogin→cookie→query
helper so newcomers don't hand-roll auth cookies (the old README smoke test
`curl class/fabricNode.json` had no auth → returned an APIC error envelope).
- README: 60-second quickstart + embedded topology screenshot (docs/images/
topology.png), port-mode leads with `aci-sim run`, smoke test uses `aci-sim
query`, install notes git+https is package-only.
900 tests pass (+12 for aci-sim query).
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aci-sim is a stateful REST simulator of a 2-site Cisco ACI fabric
(per-site APIC + ND/NDO management planes) — for testing ACI automation
(Ansible cisco.aci / cisco.mso, aci-py, custom REST clients) and CI gates
without real hardware.
Highlights: APIC + NDO REST surface served from one in-memory MIT built
from a declarative topology.yaml; port mode + sandbox (real per-device IPs
on :443) run modes; LLDP/CDP neighbor visibility; NDO->APIC deploy mirror
(multi-site templates materialize onto the target sites' APIC stores);
real-APIC fvBD default attributes; file-backed state save/restore; an
`aci-sim` CLI (validate/show/graph/run/new/init/lldp); and an 888-test suite.
History squashed for the public release.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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