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Troubleshooting Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (DCACIT)

The Troubleshooting Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (DCACIT) training teaches you the key components and procedures needed to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot Cisco® Nexus® 9000 Series Switches in Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode, a solution to simplify, optimize, and accelerate infrastructure deployment and governance. This training is for advanced engineers who have installed and managed existing fabrics or for those who have completed the Implementing Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure-Advanced (DCACI) training.

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    How you'll benefit

    This training will help you:

    • Learn how to design policy-driven automation to streamline the deployment lifecycle
    • Integrate a comprehensive solution using any hypervisor, supporting any workload, for any location, and in any cloud
    • Expand your knowledge of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches

    Who should enroll

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

    Technology areas

    • Data center

    Objectives

    After taking this course, you should be able to:

    • Apply troubleshooting methodology to Cisco ACI networks
    • Troubleshooting logical and physical constructs of the Cisco ACI policy
    • Understand Cisco APIC and its troubleshooting aspects
    • Troubleshoot endpoint learning in Cisco ACI
    • Troubleshoot Layer 2 traffic bridging and Layer 3 routing in Cisco ACI network
    • Troubleshoot hypervisor integration in Cisco ACI
    • Troubleshoot Layer 4 to Layer 7 service insertion
    • Troubleshoot contracts and route leaking in Cisco ACI

    Prerequisites

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

    • Familiarity with data center infrastructure operations
    • Familiarity with management of Cisco data center switches
    • Basic programming
    • Basic network troubleshooting
    • System or network administration (Linux or Windows)
    • Data center operations

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

    Outline

    • Describing Cisco ACI Troubleshooting Methodology
    • Troubleshooting Logical and Physical Constructs
    • Troubleshooting Cisco APIC
    • Troubleshooting Endpoint Learning
    • Troubleshooting Layer 2
    • Troubleshooting Layer 3 Routing
    • Troubleshooting VMM Integration
    • Troubleshooting Layer 4-7 Service Insertion
    • Troubleshooting Contracts and Route Leaking

    Lab outline

    • Verify Endpoints
    • Examine VLANs
    • Troubleshoot ACI Policy
    • Troubleshoot VMM Integration and External Connectivity
    • Troubleshoot Contracts