HP ProCurve switches for engineers

Description

A hands on course covering the product specifics of HP switches. Installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting are all covered in a practical oriented way. VLANs often take up a large part of the course. The course covers all interfaces but concentrates on using the command line interface. Delegates are, however, free to use the web based interface in all exercises.

What will you learn

HP ProCurve training course details

Anyone working with HP switches. Particularly aimed at engineers and technicians supporting HP switches.

None.

2 days

Traditional Ethernet, Hubs, Frames, MAC addresses.

Hands on Building a network with a hub

Switches versus hubs, the MAC address table, handling unknown addresses.

Hands on Building a network with HP switches.

How to configure a HP switch using: Console port access menus, CLI, telnet, web based access.

Hands on Console access, show commands, using the menus, IP address configuration, telnet.

Operator mode, Manager mode, configuration mode, passwords, online help, CLI commands, basic troubleshooting.

Hands on More show commands, basic troubleshooting, setting a password, displaying status and counters.

Web access, basic format, Getting started. SSL.

Hands on Web based configuration.

Common port configuration tasks, port security, port aggregation.

Hands on Configuring ports. Trunking and failover.

Broadcast storms. What is STP? RSTP. Configuring STP.

Hands on Enabling and disabling STP, investigation failover.

What are VLANS? 802.1Q, tagged/untagged, creating VLANS, applying VLANS. Addressing and VLANs, Layer 3 switches and VLANs.

Hands on Setting up VLANS, setting up tagged ports, Inter VLAN traffic.

TFTP, software upgrades, downloading configurations.

Hands on Software upgrade, downloading a configuration.

SNMP configuration, HP OpenView.

Hands on Using SNMP to manage a HP ProCurve switch.

Putting it all together. Layer 1 troubleshooting, Layer 2 troubleshooting.

CDP. Logging