Course

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 Backup and restore System upgrade Configuration profiles	X	3.00
Centralized Configuration Management: aVCS Clustering devices into a centralized chassis aVCS topology: vMaster and vBlade devices vMaster election and maintenance	X	1.50
High Availability: VRRP-A Active-Standby mode and failover N+M deployments Active device selection	X	1.50
Application Delivery Partitions (ADP) Layer 3 Virtualization Partitions (L3V) Shared and private partitions Public and private objects	X	1.50
Role-based Administration Admin account creation through the CLI and GUI Assigning privileges, passwords, and access rights Roles: predefined and user-defined Session management	X	1.00
Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting Using AAA servers to manage device and command access Account and command tracking	X	1.00
Control Plane Logging ACOS logging External logging and emailing events Events and thresholds	X	1.00
SNMP Monitoring ACOS devices remotely A10 MIBs Configuring Traps OID discovery	X	1.00
aXAPI Overview aXAPI architecture and session flow API methods	X	1.00

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