Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting (DCACIO)

 

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

Prices & Delivery methods

Online Training
Modality: U

Duration 3 days

Price (excl. tax)
  • Eastern Europe: US$ 3,500.—
Classroom Training
Modality: G

Duration 3 days

Price (excl. tax)
  • Eastern Europe: US$ 3,500.—
E-Learning
Modality: P

Duration 180 days

Price (excl. tax)
  • Eastern Europe: US$ 1,000.—
 

Schedule

English

Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST)

Online Training Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST)
Online Training Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST)

6 hours difference

Online Training Time zone: Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
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