The Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting (DCACIO) v4.2 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 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.
This course will help you:
Objectives
• Describe the Cisco ACI built0in tools for operating and monitoring the fabric
• Describe the complex challenges related to monitoring and Cisco tools that address them: Cisco Nexus Dashboard and Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights
• Describe fabric installation upgrade, backup, restore, and best practices for Cisco NX-OS-to-ACI migration and Cisco ACI management access
• Describe the tools and best practices for monitoring ACI fabric
• Describe best practices for Cisco ACI naming conventions, Day-0 configuration, VMM integration, and Cisco ACI migrations
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this training. However, the knowledge and skills you are recommended to have before attending this training are:
• Understanding of ACI architecture and concepts need to get an ACI fabric into production
• Familiarity with data center infrastructure operations
• Familiarity with management of Cisco data center switches
• Data center operations
These skills can be found in the following Cisco Learning Offerings:
• Implementing Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure (DCACI)
• Implementing and Administering Cisco Solution (CCNA)
• Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations (DCFNDU)
Who should enroll
Outline
• Describing Cisco ACI Day-0 to Day-2 Operations
• Describing Day-2 Operational Tools
• Describing Cisco ACI Configuration Management
• Describing Cisco ACI Monitoring
• Cisco ACI Best Practices
Lab Outline
• Safeguard ACI Operation Using Network Assurance Engine
• Configure SNMP and Perform Export/Import Operations
• Monitor Cisco ACI and Configure Syslog
• Explore the Management Information Tree
• Configure SPAN