It is recommended to implement the separation of management and data/customer traffic in your Datacenter switches like Cisco Nexus devices (e.g. Nexus 7000, Nexus 9000). Traffic passing through the management plane should be exclusively for management or administrative access purposes only like SSH, SNMP, NTP and AAA. Here’s the recommended configuration or practices for these management services. Configure Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) -preferably to setup centralized TACACS+ to manage all your devices, some uses Cisco® Identity Services Engine (ISE)…
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