Advanced Services - Cisco Active Network Abstraction (CANA)

This course is for network administrators and consultants who will be planning, installing, customizing, and using the Cisco ANA applications for network, service, and fault management in multivendor networks. The following are the primary audiences for this course:

• Network administrators, system administrators, and operators
• System integrators, professional services, and consultants

• Basic Microsoft Windows Knowledge
• Basic network management concepts (SNMP, MIBs, etc.)
• TCP/IP networking experience
• Solaris/Unix system administration knowledge
• Oracle administration knowledge

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

• Describe the ANA architecture, consisting of Cisco ANA gateways, ANA units, and clients
• Describe virtual network elements (VNEs), which are the software-based building blocks of the Cisco ANA virtual network model, each one cloning the characteristics and properties of its real-world counterpart
• Create network maps and build a virtual network modeul of VNEs
• Discover and view netowrk inventory information
• Manage VPNs, view automatically discovered VPNs, and create or change VPN views
• Troubleshoot, manage, and correlate network events and faults
• Plan an ANA deployment and provide calculated recommendations for the hardware and software requirements based on the management plan
• Install the various ANA components
• Configure the VNEs
• Configure user accounts and ANA security features
• Maintain and troubleshoot the ANA system
• Plan for high availability
• Understand the ANA registry and its inheritance and the purpose of the ANA Golden Source
• Create, manage, and troubleshoot ANA Soft Properties
• Set soft properties threshholds and define threshold crossing alarms
• Utilize ANA Command Builder to create, manage, and troubleshoot custom commands
• Create and deploy ANA custom workflows using the Workflow Editor, templates, views, and user preferences
• Understand Inheritance and how to publish, export, and import ANA soft properties, commands, and workflows
• Use ANA Manage and ANA EventVision to view and manage the deployed workflows

After completing this 4-day course, students will have gained extensive knowledge about the primary components of the ANA architecture and will have learned how to set up and use the ANA applications. Students will meet these objectives by applying the information learned in the lectures through hands-on lab exercise.

Cisco Active Network Abstraction (Cisco ANA) is a highly scalable, fault-tolerant,customizable management system for large-scale, multiprotocol, and multivendornetworks. The Cisco Active Network Abstraction (CANA) v3 course is a modular coursethat teaches students how to install, configure, customize, and effectively use the CiscoANA product suite. The student gains understanding of the primary components of theANA architecture; guidelines for deployment; hardware and software requirements; andthe concepts, processes, and tools that allow customization of an ANA managementsystem to meet the specific needs of the customer’s unique network. The students’understanding is deepened by hands-on labs that include installing ANA units, gateway,and client software and utilizing the ANA applications, NetworkVision and EventVision,for network and service discovery and fault detection. Students will use the ANAcustomization tools to create, manage, and troubleshoot ANA Soft Properties, customcommands, and workflows.