The Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting (DCACIO) v5.2 is a 3-day course which 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.
Who Should Enroll
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- Data center engineers
- Field engineers
- Network engineers
- Systems engineers
- Cisco integrators/partners
- Consulting systems engineer
- Technical solutions architect
- Service administrator
How you’ll benefit
- 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
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:
- Describe the Cisco ACI built-in 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.
Learning Path Prerequisites
The knowledge and skills the learner should have before attending this course are as follows:
- Basic knowledge of router installation and some experience with installation tools
- Routing protocol configuration experience with Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Intermediate System-to- Intermediate System (IS-IS), and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
- Knowledge of Layer 2 IEEE switching and related protocols
- Strong knowledge of MPLS configuration experience
- Experience troubleshooting Cisco routers in a large network environment
COURSE OUTLINE
This course will cover the following topics:
- 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