System Administration 5
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Course Description
The System Administration course is the recommended pre-requisite for all courses. Focusing on the control plane, it provides the necessary foundation for teams continuing onto ACOS application courses.
Objectives
From a set of three blank ACOS devices, students build a system deployment with these attributes:
- Layer 2 – 3 environment including VLANs, and IP routing
- Device cluster environment with a single management point
- High availability with multiple active devices
- Multi-tenant environment with limited-scope administration
- Remote authentication and authorization
Students also use device tools that monitor, diagnose, and restore the system configuration.
Class Structure
- Classroom Discussion 40%
- Lab Exercises 60%
Prerequisites
- OSI reference model
- Network topology and administration
- An industry standard switching and routing CLI
Audience
- Network Operations
- Development Operations
- Network Security
- Students preparing for Application Courses
Outline
| TOPIC | LAB | TIME (Hours) |
Initial ACOS Configuration Base system configuration through the CLI and GUI | X | 3.00 |
Centralized Configuration Management: aVCS Clustering devices into a centralized chassis | X | 1.50 |
High Availability: VRRP-A Active-Standby mode and failover | X | 1.50 |
Application Delivery Partitions (ADP) Layer 3 Virtualization Partitions (L3V) | X | 1.50 |
Role-based Administration Admin account creation through the CLI and GUI | X | 1.00 |
Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting Using AAA servers to manage device and command access | X | 1.00 |
Control Plane Logging ACOS logging | X | 1.00 |
SNMP Monitoring ACOS devices remotely | X | 1.00 |
aXAPI Overview aXAPI architecture and session flow | X | 1.00 |
