EPNM100

The Configuring and Operating Cisco EPN Manager (EPNM100) v3.0 course shows you how to install, provision, monitor, and maintain a packet and optical multilayer network using Cisco® Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) Manager. This course also covers configuration and compliance management, device configuration, and service management. The Cisco EPN Manager is a simplified and cost-effective solution for device operation, administration, network provisioning, and network assurance management for today’s converging packet and optical multilayer networks. It enables end-to-end lifecycle management across core, edge, aggregation, and access networks.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Recognize the Cisco EPN Manager’s features
• Access Cisco EPN Manager and understand user accounts (roles, virtual domains)
• Navigate the Cisco EPN Manager’s user interface
• View the network inventory
• Monitor health and performance
• Manage alarms and events
• Generate reports
• Recognize the system requirements for Cisco EPN Manager, and procedures for new installations, upgrades, and high availability
• Manage licensing
• Configure the initial server settings and prepare the server for day-1 operations
• Establish initial device inventory and virtual domains
• Establish user accounts and their role-based access to EPN Manager’s features and devices
• Configure monitoring policies and alarm and event preferences
• Manage backup and restore, data retention and purging, and software updates
• Tune and monitor a server’s performance
• Archive, view, compare, and restore configuration files
• Update and manage software images
• Perform compliance audits
• Configure devices using templates
• Provision network services
• Archive and restore TL1 database files
• Update and manage optical devices’ software image
• Configure optical devices using the Detailed Device View
• Provision optical network services

Module 1: Introduction

• Lesson 1: Service Provider Market Trends
• Lesson 2: Cisco EPN Manager Overview

Module 2: Getting Started

• Lesson 1: Accessing Cisco EPN Manager
• Lesson 2: Lesson Summary for “Accessing Cisco EPN Manager”
• Lesson 3: Exploring the GUI
• Lesson 4: Populating the Inventory

Module 3: Network Views

• Lesson 1: Viewing Device Inventory and Device Details
• Lesson 2: Viewing the Topology

Module 4: Network Monitoring

• Lesson 1: Monitoring Dashboards
• Lesson 2: Monitoring Policies Overview
• Lesson 3: Exploring Alarms and Events
• Lesson 4: Taking Action on Alarms and Events
• Lesson 5: Exploring Reports
• Lesson 6: Managing Reports

Module 5: System Administration

• Lesson 1: Pre-Installation Activities
• Lesson 2: Installing Cisco EPN Manager
• Lesson 3: Installing High Availability
• Lesson 4: Post-Installation Activities
• Lesson 5: Performing Server Setup Tasks
• Lesson 6: Customizing Alarm and Event Preferences
• Lesson 7: Managing Groups and Virtual Domains
• Lesson 8: Managing User Accounts

Module 6: Maintenance

• Lesson 1: Backup and Restore
• Lesson 2: Software Updates
• Lesson 3: Data Retention and Purging
• Lesson 4: Monitor and Tune Cisco EPN Manager

Module 7: Configuration Management

• Lesson 1: Setting Up Configuration Management
• Lesson 2: Using Configuration Management

Module 8: Software Image Management

• Lesson 1: Software Image Management Basics
• Lesson 2: Deploying Software Images

Module 9: Device Configuration

• Lesson 1: Cisco EPN Manager Configuration Methods
• Lesson 2: Configuring Devices by Using Templates
• Lesson 3: Creating Custom Templates

Module 10: Compliance Management

• Lesson 1: Compliance Prerequisites
• Lesson 2: Compliance Policies
• Lesson 3: Compliance Audit and Fix Jobs

Module 11: Carrier Ethernet Service Management

• Lesson 1: Examining Provisioning Features
• Lesson 2: Creating Customers and Custom Profiles
• Lesson 3: Provisioning a Carrier Ethernet Service
• Lesson 4: Verifying Services
• Lesson 5: Monitoring and Troubleshooting Services

Module 12: Optical Devices, Circuits, and Services

• Lesson 1: Exploring Optical Provisioning Features
• Lesson 2: Setting Up Configuration Management
• Lesson 3: Using Configuration Management
• Lesson 4: Configuring Optical Devices with Details Device View
• Lesson 5: Creating Customers and Custom Profiles
• Lesson 6: Provisioning a Service
• Lesson 7: Assuring Services
• Lesson 8: Monitoring and Troubleshooting Services

You will receive the original course documentation from Cisco in English language as a Cisco E-Book.

Network operators

• Network administrators
• Network Engineers
• Optical network administrators
• System administrators
• System integrators and professional services
• Cisco Integrators and Partners

It is recommended that a learner has the following knowledge and skills before attending this course:

• Network management experience (polling, syslogs, IP addressing, ports, device access, credentials, Simple Network Management Protocol [SNMP], Secure Shell [SSH])
• Basic understanding of network and device performance statistics
• Basic understanding of network alarms and events
• Experience with manually configuring network devices and provisioning services using a device’s command-line interface (CLI)
• VMware experience with the installation of OVA files on virtual machines and/or ISO software on bare-metal machines
• Experience with configuring optical network devices and provisioning optical circuits using either TL1 (CLI) or the Cisco Transport Controller application