DCACIO: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting (DCACIO)

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About this Course

Course Overview
The Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting (DCACIO) v5.2 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.

Audience Profile

Course Target Audience
The primary audience for this course is as follows:

Data center engineers
Field engineers
Network engineers
Systems engineers
Cisco integrators/partners
Consulting systems engineer
Technical solutions architect
Service administrator
Network manager

At Course Completion

Course Objectives
After taking this course, you should be able to:

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.

Outline

Course Outline
Course Outline:

This course will cover the following topics:
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
Explore Cisco Network Insights and Nexus Dashboard
Configure SNMP and Perform Export/Import Operations
Monitor Cisco ACI and Configure Syslog
Configure ELAM Assistant
Explore the Management Information Tree
Configure SPAN

Prerequisites

Course Prerequisites
The knowledge and skills that the learner should have before attending this course are as follows:

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
The following courses will provide you with the required ACI skills:

Implementing Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure (DCACI)
Implementing and Administering Cisco Solution (CCNA)
Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations (DCFNDU)