D-Link switches

Description

A hands on course covering the product specifics of D-Link switches. Installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting are all covered in a practical oriented way.

What will you learn

D-Link switches training course details

Anyone working with D-Link switches. Particularly aimed at engineers and technicians supporting D-Link switches.

None.

2 days

How Ethernet works with hubs, How Ethernet works with switches. Installing D-link switches.

Hands on Building a network with a hub, building a network with a D-Link switch.

The D-Link switch range, LEDs, cabling issues, factory resets, default settings.

Hands on Building a network with multiple D-link switches.

Managed vs. unmanaged switches, Console port access, telnet, web based access, SNMP, saving configurations, NVRAM, switch stacks.

Hands on Accessing the switch using the CLI, IP address configuration, telnet.

Users, privileges, the CLI, online help.

Hands on Basic commands, user accounts, displaying the switch configuration.

Getting started, basic format.

Hands on Configuring the switch using the web interface.

Common port configuration tasks, link aggregation.

Hands on Configuring ports.

What is STP? 802.1D vs. 802.1W (RSTP), configuring STP.

Hands on Enabling and disabling STP, changing STP versions, configuring STP.

What are VLANS? 802.1Q, tagged/untagged, creating VLANS, applying VLANS.

Hands on Setting up VLANS, setting up 802.1Q, Inter VLAN traffic.

TFTP, upload download, updating firmware, updating configuration files, BOOTP/DHCP for IP addresses.

Hands on Using TFTP to configure a D-Link switch.

Switch configuration, D-View, other NMS's.

Hands on Using SNMP to manage a D-link switch putting it all together: troubleshooting.