Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting (DCACIO)

Course details

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

How you’ll benefit

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

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)
• Configuring ACI in the Cisco Nexus Data Center (CACND)

Outline

• 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