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Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting (DCACIO)

The Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting (DCACIO) training 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 a wide range of production deployments, this training gives you the real-world knowledge and skills to boost operational efficiencies in your own deployment.

What you need to know

Continuing Education

Earn 24 CE credits towards recertification

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    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

    • Network engineers
    • Systems engineers
    • Data center engineers
    • Consulting systems engineers
    • Technical solutions architects
    • Cisco integrators/partners
    • Field engineers
    • Server administrators
    • Network managers

    Technology areas

    • Data Center

    Objectives

    • 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

    Prerequisites

    There are no prerequisites for this training. However, the knowledge and skills you are recommended to have before attending this training are:

    • 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

    These skills can be found in the following Cisco Learning Offerings:

    Outline

    • 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