Course Overview
The Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting (DCACIO) v4.0 course shows you how to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot Cisco® Nexus® 9000 Series Switches in Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode. Through expert instruction and hands-on practice, you will learn about operational tools, best practices, caveats, and more. You will practice troubleshooting common issues on a live fabric. Based on lessons learned in wide range of production deployments, this course gives you the real-world knowledge and skills to boost operational efficiencies in your own deployment.
Who should attend
IT professionals who support a Cisco ACI data center network, including:
- Data center engineers
- Field engineers
- Network engineers
- Systems engineers
Prerequisites
To fully benefit from this course, you should have the following knowledge and skills:
- Cisco ACI concepts and implementation
- 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:
Course Objectives
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
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
Outline: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting (DCACIO)
ACI Overview and Configuration Review
- Review Cisco ACI Architecture and Cisco ACI Building Blocks
- Review the Physical and Logical Policy Model
- Configuration Review (Physical and Logical)
- ACI Policy Objects Review
- Fabric Access Policies
- vPC Explicit Protection Groups
- VMM Integration with vCenter
- L2 EPG Extension / L2 BD Extension Workflows
- L3 Route Distribution / BGP Route Reflection
- L3 Out Configuration Workflows
- Contract Deny (Taboo) Logging
Cisco ACI Firmware, Configuration, and Management
- Installation Checklist
- HW Installation and Fabric Discovery
- ACI Firmware Upgrades
- Import / Export
- Configuration Snapshots and Rollbacks
- Configuration Zones
- ACI Fabric Rebuild or Recovery
- Cluster Management
- Convert Cisco NX-OS mode to ACI mode
- APIC Management Access Protocols
- General Recommended Practices from the Technical Assistance Center TAC
Monitoring
- ACI Operation Tools
- ACI Dashboards
- Health Scores
- Faults in ACI
- Viewing Events and Logs
- Monitoring Policies
- Monitoring using CLI
- Displaying Capacity Dashboard and Traffic Map
- GitHub Tools
Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting Checklist
- Faults in ACI
- Using Visore
- CLI Troubleshooting Commands: moquery/iping/itraceroute/acidiag
- Troubleshooting Endpoint Connectivity
- Visibility and Troubleshooting Tool
- Troubleshooting Access Ports
- Troubleshooting the Fabric Discovery Process (Link Layer Discovery Protocol [LLDP])
- Hardware Diagnostics and Replacement
Lab outline
- Tenant Configuration
- Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) Integration
- External L2 Configuration
- External L3 Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
- Configure Syslog
- Configure Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- Visore
- Navigating the CLI
- iPing/iTraceroute
- Troubleshooting Challenge Labs