Course Overview
The Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting (DCACIO) v1.0 course shows you how to operate and troubleshoot Cisco® data center network infrastructure running Cisco ACI. Through expert instruction and hands-on practice, you will learn about operational tools, and 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.
Who should attend
IT professionals who support a Cisco ACI data center network, including:
- Data center engineers
- Field engineers
- Network engineers
- Systems engineers
Prerequisites
To fully benefit from this course, you should have the following knowledge and skills:
- Familiarity with data center infrastructure operations
- Familiarity with management of Cisco data center switches
- Understanding of basic network troubleshooting
The following courses will provide you with the required ACI skills:
- !Configuring Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in ACI Mode (DCAC9K)
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Course Objectives
This course will help you:
- Quickly ramp up on Cisco ACI operational knowledge, skills, and best practices honed from over 100 production deployments
- Gain hands-on troubleshooting techniques
- Achieve 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
Course Content
- ACI Overview and Configuration Review
- ACI Configuration Management
- Installing, Upgrading, Backing Up, and Restoring ACI Fabric
- Monitoring ACI
- Always-On and On-Demand Monitoring Tools
- Exercises: Visore, CLI Commands, Audit Logs, Traffic Map
- Troubleshooting ACI
- Methodologies, Tools, and Specific Examples
- Exercises: iPing, End Point Tracker, Troubleshooting Tool, Contract Drops, Contracts, Traceroute, Atomic Counters
Lab outline
- Create Baseline 3-Tier Application
- Import/Export
- Snapshot/Config Rollback
- Configuring Syslog
- Configuring Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- Troubleshooting Challenge Labs
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