The Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting (DCACIO) v5.2 course shows you how to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot Cisco® Nexus® 9000 Series Switches in Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode. Through expert instruction and hands-on practice, you will learn about operational tools, best practices, caveats, and practice troubleshooting common issues on a live fabric. Based on lessons learned in wide range of production deployments, this course gives you the real-world knowledge and skills to boost operational efficiencies in your own deployment.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the Cisco ACI built0in tools for operating and monitoring the fabric.
- Describe the complex challenges related to monitoring and Cisco tools that address them: Cisco Nexus Dashboard and Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights.
- Describe fabric installation upgrade, backup, restore, and best practices for Cisco NX-OS-to-ACI migration and Cisco ACI management access.
- Describe the tools and best practices for monitoring ACI fabric.
- Describe best practices for Cisco ACI naming conventions, Day-0 configuration, VMM integration, and Cisco ACI migrations.
Prerequisites
Required
- Understanding of ACI architecture and concepts need to get an ACI fabric into production
- Familiarity with data center infrastructure operations
- Familiarity with management of Cisco data center switches
- Data center operations
Recommended
- Implementing Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure (DCACI)
- Implementing and Administering Cisco Solution (CCNA)
- Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations (DCFNDU)
Who Should Go For This Training?
- Network Manager
- Network Engineer
- Systems Engineer
- Data Center Engineer
- Consulting Systems Engineer
- Server Administrator
- Technical Solutions Architect
- Cisco Integrators/Partners Field Engineer
- Course Outline
- Describing Cisco ACI Day-0 to Day-2 Operations
- Describing Day-2 Operational Tools
- Describing Cisco ACI Configuration Management
- Describing Cisco ACI Monitoring
- Cisco ACI Best Practices
- LAB Outline :
- Safeguard ACI Operation Using Network Assurance Engine
- Explore Cisco Network Insights and Nexus Dashboard
- Configure SNMP and Perform Export/Import Operations
- Monitor Cisco ACI and Configure Syslog
- Configure ELAM Assistant
- Explore the Management Information Tree
- Configure SPAN
This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.
Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.