Course Description

The Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting course shows you how to operate and troubleshoot a Cisco data center network infrastructure running Cisco ACI. Through expert instruction and hands-on practice, you will learn about operational tools, best practices and caveats for configuration management, performance tracking, and more. You will practice troubleshooting common issues on a live fabric. Based on lessons learned in over 100 production deployments, this course gives you the real-world knowledge and skills to boost operational efficiencies in your own deployment.

Objectives

The Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting (DCACIO) v4.2 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.

This course will help you:

• Quickly ramp up on Cisco ACI® operational knowledge, skills, and best practices honed from real-world production deployments
• Gain hands-on troubleshooting techniques
• Optimize the benefits of using Cisco ACI, such as streamlined operations

After taking this course, you should be able to:

• Operationalize and troubleshoot the ACI fabric
• Understand Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) and its monitoring, management, and troubleshooting capabilities
• Avoid common mistakes and recognize common symptoms

Audience

IT professionals who support a Cisco ACI data center network, including:

• Data center engineers
• Field engineers
• Network engineers
• Systems engineers

Prerequisites

Each candidate should possess the following prerequisite knowledge and skills to fully benefit from this course:

• Understand ACI architecture and concepts needed to get an ACI fabric into production
• Experience configuring a 3-tier application with Layer2 and Layer3 connectivity and vCenter integration
• Completion of Cisco Implementing Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure (DCACI) course
• Familiarity with data center infrastructure operations
• Familiarity with management of Cisco data center switches
• Understanding of basic network troubleshooting and basic programming
• Data center operations

The following courses will provide you with the required ACI skills:

• Implementing Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure (DCACI)

Content

Classroom Live Outline

• Cisco ACI Overview
• Cisco ACI Topology and Hardware
• Cisco ACI Fabric Discovery and Initialization
• Cisco ACI Access Policies
• Cisco ACI Configuration Review
• Creating a Base Configuration
• Cisco ACI Configuration Management
• Installation Checklist
• Cisco Hardware Installation and Fabric Discovery
• Cisco ACI Firmware Upgrades
• Cisco Smart Licensing
• Import / Export
• Configuration Snapshots and Rollbacks
• Configuration Zones
• Cisco ACI Fabric Rebuild or Recovery
• Converting Cisco NX-OS mode to ACI mode
• Cisco APIC Management Access Protocols
• General Recommended Practices from the Technical Assistance Center TAC
• Cisco ACI-OT Monitoring
• Cisco ACI Operation Tools
• Cisco ACI Syslog Configuration
• Viewing Events and Logs
• Troubleshooting Cisco ACI
• Health Scores
• Troubleshooting Cisco APIC
• Faults and Audit Logs in ACI

Classroom Live Labs

• Connect to Remote Lab Environment
• Create a Tenant
• Configure vCenter Integration
• Configure Layer 2 Physical Domain
• Connect Layer 3 Outside Using Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
• Configure Syslog
• Configure Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
• Configure ELAM Assistant
• Employ Cisco Network Insights
• Configure Contract Deny Logs and Tenant Atomic Counters
• Use Visore to Explore Tenant
• Troubleshoot Using CLI
• Configure Tenant SPAN
• Troubleshooting Challenge