Implementing Aruba OS-CX Switching (ICX)

Detailed Course Outline

Introduction to Aruba Switching

• Switches overview
• Architectures

NetEdit

• Overview
• Centralized configuration
• Switch groups/templates
• AOS-CX mobile App

Network Analytics Engine (NAE)

• Overview
• Configuration
• Core NAE feature lab
• sflow, local mirror, remote mirror

VSX

• VSF vs. VSX: access and Agg/core design
• Stacking review
• VSF and uni/multi packet forwarding
• Stack fragments / split brain
• VSX Overview: roles, control, data, management planes
• VSX components (ISL, Keepalive, VSX LAG, Active Gateway, Active-Forwarding, Link Delay)
• Split Brain scenario
• Upstream Connectively Options (ROP single VRF, SVIs with multiple VRF, VSX Lag SVIs with multiple VRFs)
• Upstream/Downstream unicast traffic flow (South-North and North-South)
• VSX Configuration: VSX and Active Gateway
• VSX firmware updates

ACLs

• Overview: types, components
• MAC ACL, Standard ACL, Extended ACL,
• Classifier-based Policies
• Configuration: wildcard bits, logging, pacl, vacl, racl

Advanced OSPF

• Review basic OSPF
• Multi area: setup and aggregation
• Area-Types Stub, Totally Stub, NSSA, Totally NSSA
• External routes
• OSPF tuning: costs, bfd, gr, auth, vrrp, virt link

BGP

• Overview: i/e bgp, as numbers
• Best path selection
• Configuration: route announcement
• Route filtering to prevent transit as

IGMP

• Overview
• Querier
• Snooping
• Unknown multicasts

Multicast Routing: PIM

• Overview
• PIM DM

802.1X Authentication

• Overview: roles, requirements, coa, accounting
• Dynamic port configuration: avp, acl, qos, VLAN
• Port-based vs. user-based: examples
• Radius service tracking, critical VLAN

MAC Authentication

• Overview: Use cases
• Radius-based MAC Auth

Dynamic Segmentation

• Leverage dynamic segmentation features
• Configure tunneled-node on AOS-CX switches
• Describe when and how to configure PAPI enhanced security, high availability, and fallback switching for tunneled-node

Quality of Service

• Overview
• VoQ (Virtual Output Queue)
• QOS: queueing, QOS marks, dot1p, dscp
• Trust levels
• QOS configuration: port, VLAN, policies
• Interaction with user roles
• Queue configuration
• Rate limiters
• LLDP-MED

Additional Routing Technologies

• VRF - Management VRF
• PBR
• MDNS
• PIM SM

Capitve Portal Authentication

• Overview of guest solutions
• Built-in web auth
• ClearPass redirect with CPPM