Course
Name: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting
(DCACIO) v4.1

Duration:
3 Days

What you’ll learn in this course:

The Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and
Troubleshooting (DCACIO) v4.1 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 more. You
will 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.

How you’ll benefit:

• Quickly ramp up on Cisco ACI operational knowledge, skills, and
  best practices honed from real-world production deployments
• Gain hands-on troubleshooting techniques
• Optimize the benefits of using Cisco ACI, such as streamlined
  operations

Who should enroll:

• Data center engineers
• Field engineers
• Network engineers
• Systems engineers

Course
Objectives:

After
taking this course, you should be able to:

• Operationalize and troubleshoot the ACI fabric
• Understand Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller
  (APIC) and its monitoring, management, and troubleshooting capabilities
• Avoid common mistakes and recognize common symptoms

Course Prerequisites:

To
fully benefit from this course, you should have the following knowledge and
skills:

• Cisco ACI concepts and implementation
• Familiarity with data center infrastructure operations
• Familiarity with management of Cisco data center switches
• Understanding of basic network troubleshooting

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

• Configuring Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in ACI Mode (DCAC9K)

Course Outline:

• ACI Overview and Configuration Review
  • Review Cisco ACI Architecture and Cisco ACI Building Blocks
  • Review the Physical and Logical Policy Model
  • Configuration Review (Physical and Logical)
  • ACI Policy Objects Review
  • Fabric Access Policies
  • vPC Explicit Protection Groups
  • VMM Integration with vCenter
  • L2 EPG Extension / L2 BD Extension Workflows
  • L3 Route Distribution / BGP Route Reflection
  • L3 Out Configuration Workflows
  • Contract Deny (Taboo) Logging
• Cisco ACI Firmware, Configuration, and Management
  • Installation Checklist
  • HW Installation and Fabric Discovery
  • ACI Firmware Upgrades
  • Import / Export
  • Configuration Snapshots and Rollbacks
  • Configuration Zones
  • ACI Fabric Rebuild or Recovery
  • Cluster Management
  • Convert Cisco NX-OS mode to ACI mode
  • APIC Management Access Protocols
  • General Recommended Practices from the Technical Assistance Center
    TAC
• Monitoring
  • ACI Operation Tools
  • ACI Dashboards
  • Health Scores
  • Faults in ACI
  • Viewing Events and Logs
  • Monitoring Policies
  • Monitoring using CLI
  • Displaying Capacity Dashboard and Traffic Map
  • GitHub Tools
• Troubleshooting
  • Troubleshooting Checklist
  • Faults in ACI
  • Using Visore
  • CLI Troubleshooting Commands: moquery/iping/itraceroute/acidiag
  • Troubleshooting Endpoint Connectivity
  • Visibility and Troubleshooting Tool
  • Troubleshooting Access Ports
  • Troubleshooting the Fabric Discovery Process (Link Layer Discovery
    Protocol [LLDP])
  • Hardware Diagnostics and Replacement

Labs Outline:

• Tenant Configuration
• Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) Integration
• External L2 Configuration
• External L3 Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
• Configure Syslog
• Configure Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
• Visore
• Navigating the CLI
• iPing/iTraceroute
• Troubleshooting Challenge Labs