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This course teaches you the key components and procedures that you need to know to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot Cisco® Nexus® 9000 Series Switches in Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode, a solution to simplify, optimize, and accelerate infrastructure deployment and governance. This course is for advanced engineers who have installed and managed existing fabrics or for those who have completed the Implementing Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure-Advanced (DCACI) course.
This course will help you:
- Learn how to design policy-driven automation to streamline the deployment lifecycle
- Integrate a comprehensive solution using any hypervisor, supporting any workload, for any location, and in any cloud
After taking this course, you should be able to:
- Review and verify basic connectivity to Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
- Explain Cisco APIC and its monitoring, management, and troubleshooting aspects
- Describe Cisco Network Assurance and Cisco Network Insights and how to use them to improve operational efficiency
- Avoid common mistakes and recognize common symptoms
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Course Contents
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Day 1: Tools for Day 2 Operations of Cisco ACI
- L01: Lab Review and Fabric Discovery
- L02: ACI APIC and Internal Troubleshooting Tools
- L03: Day 2 Operations
- L04: Introducing Cisco NAE
- L05: Cisco Network Insights
Day 2: Troubleshooting Cisco ACI - L01: ACI Fabric Operations and Forwarding
- L02: Troubleshooting Methodology with Cisco ACI
- L03: Troubleshooting the Logical Model
- L04: Troubleshooting the Concrete Model
- L05: Troubleshooting VMWare Integration
Day 3: Troubleshooting Cisco ACI (cont) - L01: Troubleshooting L4-L7 Service Insertion
- L02: Troubleshooting Layer-2
- L03: Troubleshooting L3Outs
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Target Group
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This course is ideal for developers and engineers including:
- Network engineers
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Knowledge Prerequisites
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You should have the following knowledge and skills before attending this course:
- Completion of Cisco ACI Field Engineer Essentials course
- Familiarity with data center infrastructure operations
- Familiarity with management of Cisco data center switches
- Basic programming
- Basic network troubleshooting
- System or network administration (Linux or Windows)
- Data center operations
The following Cisco courses may help you meet these prerequisites:
- Implementing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure-Advanced (DCACI)
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting (DCACIO)
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Tailor-made courses
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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.-
This course teaches you the key components and procedures that you need to know to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot Cisco® Nexus® 9000 Series Switches in Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode, a solution to simplify, optimize, and accelerate infrastructure deployment and governance. This course is for advanced engineers who have installed and managed existing fabrics or for those who have completed the Implementing Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure-Advanced (DCACI) course.
This course will help you:
- Learn how to design policy-driven automation to streamline the deployment lifecycle
- Integrate a comprehensive solution using any hypervisor, supporting any workload, for any location, and in any cloud
After taking this course, you should be able to:
- Review and verify basic connectivity to Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
- Explain Cisco APIC and its monitoring, management, and troubleshooting aspects
- Describe Cisco Network Assurance and Cisco Network Insights and how to use them to improve operational efficiency
- Avoid common mistakes and recognize common symptoms
-
Course Contents
-
Day 1: Tools for Day 2 Operations of Cisco ACI
- L01: Lab Review and Fabric Discovery
- L02: ACI APIC and Internal Troubleshooting Tools
- L03: Day 2 Operations
- L04: Introducing Cisco NAE
- L05: Cisco Network Insights
Day 2: Troubleshooting Cisco ACI - L01: ACI Fabric Operations and Forwarding
- L02: Troubleshooting Methodology with Cisco ACI
- L03: Troubleshooting the Logical Model
- L04: Troubleshooting the Concrete Model
- L05: Troubleshooting VMWare Integration
Day 3: Troubleshooting Cisco ACI (cont) - L01: Troubleshooting L4-L7 Service Insertion
- L02: Troubleshooting Layer-2
- L03: Troubleshooting L3Outs
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Target Group
-
This course is ideal for developers and engineers including:
- Network engineers
-
Knowledge Prerequisites
-
You should have the following knowledge and skills before attending this course:
- Completion of Cisco ACI Field Engineer Essentials course
- Familiarity with data center infrastructure operations
- Familiarity with management of Cisco data center switches
- Basic programming
- Basic network troubleshooting
- System or network administration (Linux or Windows)
- Data center operations
The following Cisco courses may help you meet these prerequisites:
- Implementing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure-Advanced (DCACI)
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting (DCACIO)
-
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.
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