Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting

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.

This course will help you:
• 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.

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.

IT professionals who operate and support a Cisco ACI data center network, including:
• Data center engineers
• Field engineers
• Network engineers
• Systems engineers
• Cisco integrators/partners
• Consulting systems engineer
• Technical solutions architect
• Service administrator
• Network manage

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

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
Configure SNMP and Perform Export/Import Operations
Monitor Cisco ACI and Configure Syslog
Explore the Management Information Tree
Configure SPAN