ACI Operations and Troubleshooting v3.1 (ACIOPS v3.1)

Module 1: Cisco ACI Component Review

?Lesson 1: Cisco ACI Architecture and Network Review

• ACI and APIC Review

• Tenant, Management Tenant and Context Review

• VLAN and VRF Review

• Bridge Domain Review

• Application Profile Review

• End Point Group Review

Lesson 2:  Cisco ACI Policy Review

• ACI Contract Review

• ACI Filter Review

• ACI Subject Review

Lesson 3:  Cisco ACI Unified Fabric Review

• Cisco ACI Server Connectivity Review

• Cisco ACI Network Connectivity Review

• Cisco ACI Switch Review

• Cisco ACI Routing Review

Lesson 4:  Cisco ACI External Connectivity Review

• Layer 2 External Switching Review

• Layer 3 External Routing Protocol Review

Lesson 5:  Customer Setup Review

• Scaling Cisco ACI

• Migration Paths to Cisco ACI

Module 2: Cisco ACI Operations

Lesson 1:  The Cisco ACI Control Plane and Packet Flow

• Determine ACI Packet Flow

• Single DB/Single EPG with Two Endpoints on the Same Leaf

• Single BD/Single EPG with Two Endpoints on Different Leafs

• Single BD/Two EPGs with One Endpoint in EPG on the Same Leaf

• Two BDs/Two EPGs with One Endpoint in Each EPG on the Same Leaf (Routed Packet)

Lesson 2:  Cisco ACI Router Baseline

• Route Profiles Overview

• Configurating a Route-Profile

• Applying a ‘Default’ Route-Profile

• Applying a Route-Profile at the Bridge Domain

• Applying a Route-Profile at the Bridge Domain Subnet

• Applying a Route-Profile at the External EPG and External EPG Subnet

• Applying a Route-Profile at the L3out as an Interleak Policy

Lesson 3:  Configure and Verify Changes in the Network

• Configure and Verify Interface Profiles

• Configure and Verify Static EPGs

• Verify Interfaces and Encapsulation

 Lesson 4: Cisco ACI Logging and DHCP Relay

• Logging data and data retention

• Activity and audit logs

• DHCP Relay service

• Infra/Tenant

• L3 Out

• L2 Out?

Module 3: Cisco ACI Troubleshooting

Lesson 1:  Cisco ACI Troubleshooting Tools

• Atomic Counters and Network Time Protocol

• Cisco ACI Endpoint Tracker Application

• End to End Testing

• Endpoint to Endpoint Testing

• Endpoint Group to Endpoint Group Testing

• Discovering Paths and Testing Connectivity with Traceroute

Lesson 2: On-Demand Diagnostics and Statistics

• Gathering On-Demand Collection and Statistics

• Cisco Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN)

• Access SPAN (or infrastructure SPAN)

• Fabric SPAN

• Tenant SPAN

• ACI Monitoring and Diagnostics

• Fabric Troubleshooting Diagnostics

Lesson 3: Cisco Nexus Data Broker Integration with ACI

• The Cisco Nexus Data Broker

• Test Access Points (TAPs)

• Configure SPAN Sessions

• Synchronize SPAN Sessions

• Data Broker Use Case

 Lesson 4:  Cisco ACI Troubleshooting Methodology and Scenarios

• Techsupport Files

• Atomic Counters

• Faults and Health Scores

• Troubleshooting Scenarios

• Troubleshoot Fabric Initialization

• Troubleshoot APIC High Availability and Clustering

• Troubleshoot Firmware and Image Management

• Troubleshoot Rest Interface

• Troubleshoot Management Tenant

• Troubleshoot Common Network Services

• Troubleshoot Unicast Data Plane Forwarding and Reachability

• Troubleshoot Policies and Contracts

• Troubleshoot Bridged Connectivity to External Networks

• Troubleshoot Routed Connectivity to External Networks

• Troubleshoot Virtual Machine Manager Insertion

  • Troubleshoot Layer 4 Through 7 Services Insertion

  • Troubleshoot ACI Fabric Node Process Crash Troubleshooting

  • Troubleshoot an APIC Process Crash

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Module 4: Cisco ACI Automation

Lesson 1:  The REST API

• The REST API Structure

• The Six Constraints of REST

• REST Client–Server Constraint

• REST Stateless Constraint

• REST Cacheable Constraint

• REST Layered Constraint

• REST Code-On-Demand Constraint

• REST Uniform Interface Constraint

Lesson 2: JSON and XML

• JSON API Characteristics

• XML API Characteristics

• JSON and XML Advantages, Similarities, and Differences

Lesson 3: Cisco ACI Data Model

• The Cisco ACI Programmable Network Infrastructure

• The APIC Data Model

• The APIC Policy Model

• The Cisco ACI Object-Oriented Data Model

Module 5: Cisco ACI Backups, Snapshots, Rollbacks and Upgrades

Lesson 1:  Cisco ACI Backups, Snapshots and Rollbacks

• Backing up Configurations

• Snapshots

• Rollbacks                          

Lesson 2: Cisco ACI Upgrades

• Firmware Repository

• Software Image

• Switch Image

• Catalog Image

Module 1 Lab Exercises

•  Lab 0 – Lab Topology and Access

•  Lab 1 - Reviewing the Cisco ACI Environment

•  Lab 2 – Tenant and Context

•  Lab 3 -  VLAN and VRFs

•  Lab 4 – Bridge Domains

•  Lab 5 – Application Profiles

•  Lab 6 -  End Point Groups

•  Lab 7 – External Bridged Networks

•  Lab 8 – External Routed Networks

•  Lab 9 – Physical and VMM Domains

Module 2 Lab Exercises

•  Lab 10 – ACI Packet Flows

•  Lab 11 - Verify Routing Information?

Module 3 Lab Exercises

•  Lab 12 – ACI Monitoring Tool

•  Lab 13 – Using Statistics

•  Lab 14 – Configure Syslog Monitoring

•  Lab 15 – Configure ERSPAN

•  Lab 16 – Create and Test an EPG-to-EPG Atomic Counter

•  Lab 17 – Using the Moquery Command

•  Lab 18 – Configure and Verify Contracts

•  Lab 19 – Examine and Enhance Fabric Access Policies

Module 4 Lab Exercise

•  Lab 20 – Configure the APIC Using the REST API

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Module 5 Lab Exercises

• Lab 21 - Backups and Snapshots

• Lab 22 - Create and Use Configuration Backups

• Lab 23 – Instructor Led Break / Fix Lab

Appendix (Optional Labs)

• Lab 24 – Explore Spanning Tree Protocol and Loop Prevention

• Lab 25 – APIC Cluster Operations and Troubleshooting

• Lab 26 – Nexus Spine and Leaf Switch Operations

• Lab 27 – Upgrade APIC and Switch Firmware