DCACIO

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting

The Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting (DCACIO) v4.1 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 more. You will 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

Course Contents

ACI Overview and Configuration Review
- Review Cisco ACI Architecture and Cisco ACI Building Blocks
- Review the Physical and Logical Policy Model
- Configuration Review (Physical and Logical)
- ACI Policy Objects Review
- Fabric Access Policies
- vPC Explicit Protection Groups
- VMM Integration with vCenter
- L2 EPG Extension / L2 BD Extension Workflows
- L3 Route Distribution / BGP Route Reflection
- L3 Out Configuration Workflows
- Contract Deny (Taboo) Logging
Cisco ACI Firmware, Configuration, and Management
- Installation Checklist
- HW Installation and Fabric Discovery
- ACI Firmware Upgrades
- Cisco Smart Licensing
- Import / Export
- Configuration Snapshots and Rollbacks
- Configuration Zones
- ACI Fabric Rebuild or Recovery
- Convert Cisco NX-OS mode to ACI mode
- APIC Management Access Protocols and Customize GUI Alias
- General Recommended Practices from the Technical Assistance Center TAC
Monitoring
- ACI Operation Tools
- ACI Dashboards
- Health Scores
- Faults in ACI
- Viewing Events and Logs
- Monitoring Policies
- Monitoring using CLI
- Displaying Capacity Dashboard and Traffic Map
- GitHUb Tools
- Network Insights
Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting Checklist
- Troubleshooting APIC
- Faults in ACI
- Using Visore
- CLI Troubleshooting Commands: moquery/iping/itraceroute/acidiag
- Troubleshooting Endpoint Connectivity
- Endpoint Move Scenarios
- SPAN in ACI
- Visibility and Troubleshooting Tool
- Troubleshooting Access Ports
- Troubleshooting the Fabric Discovery Process (Link Layer Discovery Protocol [LLDP])
- Hardware Diagnostics and Replacement

Target Group

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

Data center engineers
Field engineers
Network engineers
Systems engineers

Knowledge Prerequisites

To fully benefit from this course, you should have the following knowledge and skills:

Cisco ACI concepts and implementation
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)

Classroom training: Do you prefer the classic training method? A course in one of our Training Centers, with a competent trainer and the direct exchange between all course participants? Then you should book one of our classroom training dates!
Hybrid training: Hybrid training means that online participants can additionally attend a classroom course. The dynamics of a real seminar are maintained, and the online participants are able to benefit from that. Online participants of a hybrid course use a collaboration platform, such as WebEx Training Center or Saba Meeting. To do this, a PC with browser and Internet access is required, as well as a headset and ideally a Web cam. In the seminar room, we use specially developed and customized audio- and video-technologies. This makes sure that the communication between all persons involved works in a convenient and fault-free way.
Online training: You wish to attend a course in online mode? We offer you online course dates for this course topic. To attend these seminars, you need to have a PC with Internet access (minimum data rate 1Mbps), a headset when working via VoIP and optionally a camera. For further information and technical recommendations, please refer to.
Cisco Digital Learning: This course is available in the Cisco Digital Learning Library. These recently developed, multi-modal training events include HD videos moderated by lecturers with stored searchable text and subtitles, as well as a exercises, labs, and explanatory text and graphics. We provide this offer to you via our myExperTeach learning portal. Effective of the activation of the account, access to the courses will be granted for a duration of 6 months. In the case of packet solutions (Cisco Digital Learning Subscriptions), this time period will amount to 12 months.
Tailor-made courses: You need a special course for your team? In addition to our standard offer, we will also support you in creating your customized courses, which precisely meet your individual demands. We will be glad to consult you and create an individual offer for you.
Request for customized courses

You can find the complete description of this course with dates and prices ready for download at as PDF.

Course Contents

ACI Overview and Configuration Review
- Review Cisco ACI Architecture and Cisco ACI Building Blocks
- Review the Physical and Logical Policy Model
- Configuration Review (Physical and Logical)
- ACI Policy Objects Review
- Fabric Access Policies
- vPC Explicit Protection Groups
- VMM Integration with vCenter
- L2 EPG Extension / L2 BD Extension Workflows
- L3 Route Distribution / BGP Route Reflection
- L3 Out Configuration Workflows
- Contract Deny (Taboo) Logging
Cisco ACI Firmware, Configuration, and Management
- Installation Checklist
- HW Installation and Fabric Discovery
- ACI Firmware Upgrades
- Cisco Smart Licensing
- Import / Export
- Configuration Snapshots and Rollbacks
- Configuration Zones
- ACI Fabric Rebuild or Recovery
- Convert Cisco NX-OS mode to ACI mode
- APIC Management Access Protocols and Customize GUI Alias
- General Recommended Practices from the Technical Assistance Center TAC
Monitoring
- ACI Operation Tools
- ACI Dashboards
- Health Scores
- Faults in ACI
- Viewing Events and Logs
- Monitoring Policies
- Monitoring using CLI
- Displaying Capacity Dashboard and Traffic Map
- GitHUb Tools
- Network Insights
Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting Checklist
- Troubleshooting APIC
- Faults in ACI
- Using Visore
- CLI Troubleshooting Commands: moquery/iping/itraceroute/acidiag
- Troubleshooting Endpoint Connectivity
- Endpoint Move Scenarios
- SPAN in ACI
- Visibility and Troubleshooting Tool
- Troubleshooting Access Ports
- Troubleshooting the Fabric Discovery Process (Link Layer Discovery Protocol [LLDP])
- Hardware Diagnostics and Replacement

Target Group

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

Data center engineers
Field engineers
Network engineers
Systems engineers

Knowledge Prerequisites

To fully benefit from this course, you should have the following knowledge and skills:

Cisco ACI concepts and implementation
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)

Classroom training: Do you prefer the classic training method? A course in one of our Training Centers, with a competent trainer and the direct exchange between all course participants? Then you should book one of our classroom training dates!
Hybrid training: Hybrid training means that online participants can additionally attend a classroom course. The dynamics of a real seminar are maintained, and the online participants are able to benefit from that. Online participants of a hybrid course use a collaboration platform, such as WebEx Training Center or Saba Meeting. To do this, a PC with browser and Internet access is required, as well as a headset and ideally a Web cam. In the seminar room, we use specially developed and customized audio- and video-technologies. This makes sure that the communication between all persons involved works in a convenient and fault-free way.
Online training: You wish to attend a course in online mode? We offer you online course dates for this course topic. To attend these seminars, you need to have a PC with Internet access (minimum data rate 1Mbps), a headset when working via VoIP and optionally a camera. For further information and technical recommendations, please refer to.
Cisco Digital Learning: This course is available in the Cisco Digital Learning Library. These recently developed, multi-modal training events include HD videos moderated by lecturers with stored searchable text and subtitles, as well as a exercises, labs, and explanatory text and graphics. We provide this offer to you via our myExperTeach learning portal. Effective of the activation of the account, access to the courses will be granted for a duration of 6 months. In the case of packet solutions (Cisco Digital Learning Subscriptions), this time period will amount to 12 months.
Tailor-made courses: You need a special course for your team? In addition to our standard offer, we will also support you in creating your customized courses, which precisely meet your individual demands. We will be glad to consult you and create an individual offer for you.
Request for customized courses

You can find the complete description of this course with dates and prices ready for download at as PDF.

Cisco Digital Learning

Processing Time: approx. 18 Hours

€ 1,000 excl. V.A.T.

Duration & Prices

Prices excl. V.A.T.

Classes in Germany

3 days

€ 3,995

Online training

3 days

€ 3,995

ExperTeach Identifier

DCIO

			Date	City
20240520	2	2	05/20/-05/22/24	Live Online Los Angeles (-9h)
20240610	2	2	06/10/-06/12/24	Live Online Brisbane (+8h)
20240617	2	2	06/17/-06/19/24	Live Online Chicago (-7h)
20240715	2	2	07/15/-07/17/24	Live Online Edmonton (-8h)
20240729	2	2	07/29/-07/31/24	Live Online Kolkata (+3h)
20241007	2	3	10/07/-10/09/24	Frankfurt
20241007	2	3	10/07/-10/09/24	Live Online