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5 days
All levels
Duration
5 Days
30 CPD hours
This course is intended for
Ideal candidates are IT Professionals who deploy small-to-medium scale enterprise network solutions based on Aruba products and technologies.
Overview
After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to:
Explain Networking Fundamentals
Describe and review the Aruba Switching portfolio with customers
Install and configure devices running the ArubaOS-CX Network Operating System
Describe and configure VLANs
Explain, describe and configure Spanning Tree Protocol
Understand when to use VRRP and how to configure it
Explain and configure Link Aggregation
Understand and configure IP Routing
Explain IP Subnetting
Understand and configure OSPFv2 - Single Area
Describe and configure Switch Stacking using VSF
Configuration of Aruba solutions using Secure Management and Maintenance methodologies
Manage, monitor, administer and operate Aruba solutions using Aruba's NetEdit tool
This course teaches you the fundamental skills necessary to configure and manage modern, open standards-based networking solutions using Aruba's OS-CX routing and switching technologies. This course consists of approximately 60% lecture and 40% hands-on lab exercises to help you learn how to implement and validate small to medium enterprise network solutions. This 5-day course prepares candidates for the Aruba Certified Switching Associate exam.In this course, participants learn about ArubaOS-CX switch technologies including multi-layer switches. You will also learn about broadcast domains and Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs); secure management protocols such as AAA, SSH, HTTPS, and Dynamic Segmentation using Aruba's Role-Based Access Control (RBAC); availability technologies such as Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP); link aggregation techniques including Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) and switch virtualization with Aruba?s Virtual Switching Framework (VSF). Static and dynamic IP routing protocols such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) are also covered.
Network Fundamentals
What is a network?
What is a Protocol?
OSI Reference Model
Encapsulation, frames, packets, segments
Layer 2 to Layer 7 headers
Media, cabling, Ethernet/wifi headers
Binary/Hex/Decimal theory and conversion
TCP/IP Stack (IP addressing & Transport Protocols TCP/UDP)
Types of traffic: Unicast, Broadcast, Multicast
TCP/IP Stack
Overview
Ethernet frames
IPv4 Header
TCP Header ? Three-way Handshake
TCP Header ? Sequence Numbers
TCP Header ? Port Numbers
TCP Header
UPD Header
Basic Networking with Aruba Solutions
Networking devices: Switches, Routers, Multilayer Switches, APs, Mobility Controllers, Firewalls, Servers (HTTP, DHCP, DNS, Telnet, FTP)
2-Tier vs 3-Tier hierarchy
Switching Portfolio (AOS switches & AOS-CX switches) is this introducing both portfolio on a couple of slide and few slides on AOS-CX hardware architecture, software architecture and intro to NAE high level.
Introduction to AOS-CX and feature set
Port numbering
Accessing Aruba OS-CX CLI
Prompt modes/levels and navigation
Context sensitive help
Show logs, configuration, interfaces, transceivers, flash, version
Hostname/interface name, enabling interfaces
Link Layer Discovery Protocol
ICMP and reachability testing tools: Ping and Traceroute
PoE (standards one slide and what we support and one or two slide on configuration and verifications.)
VLANs
Broadcast/collision domains
VLAN benefits
VLAN creation
DHCP server configuration in switches (optional)
802.1Q tagging
Switchports vs. Routed ports
MAC address table
ARP table
Packet Delivery part 1
Spanning Tree Protocol
Redundant network
L2 loops
802.1D
Common Spanning Tree
802.1s
802.1w overview
802.1w load balancing
802.1w region configuration
Link Aggregation
Static Aggregation
LACP
Load Balancing
IP Routing - Part 1
Default Gateway
DHCP IP Helper Address
IP Routing Service
Inter-VLAN routing
Packet Delivery Part 2
Need for layer 3 redundancy
Introduction to VRF
VRRP
VRRP overview
VRRP basic operation
VRRP failover and preempt
VRRP and MSTP coordination
IP Routing - Part 2
Subnetting
CIDR
Static routes
Administrative Distance
Floating routes
Scalability issues
IP Routing - Part 3
IGP vs EGP
Distance Vector vs Link State
OSPF Router-ID and Hello Messages
Passive interfaces
States
DR and BDR
LSDB: LSA 1 and 2
Path selection and convergence
Using cost to manipulate routes
Stacking
Control Plane, Management Plane, and Data Plane
Introduction to Stacking technologies
Stacking Benefits
Centralized control and management plane
Distributed Data Plane and Distributed Link Aggregation
VSF
VSF requirements
VSF Link and member roles
VSF member IDs and port numbers
VSF Configuration
VSF Provisioning use cases
Tracing Layer 2 traffic: Unicast
Tracing Layer 2 traffic: Broadcast, Multicast, and Unknown Unicast
VSF Failover and OSFP Graceful-Restart
VSF Link failure without MAD
MAD
VSX Introduction
Secure Management and Maintenance
OOBM port
Management VRF
Secure Management Protocols: AAA, SSH, HTTPS, RBAC
Radius-based management auth (VSA)
SNMP
Web interface
Configuration file management (Backup, restore, checkpoint and roll back)
Operating System image management (backup and restore)
Factory default/password recovery
AOS-CX Management tools
Intro to NetEdit
NetEdit installation
Basic monitoring with NetEdit
AOS-CX Mobile App
Additional course details:
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