Detailed Course Outline
Intro to AOS-CX Switching
- AOS-CX switch overview
- Legacy management systems
- Modern management approach
- The REST API and URIs
- NAE and the Time-series database
- Dynamic Segmentation
- Always on POE
Virtual Output Queuing
- Virtual Switching eXtension
- Virtual switching technologies
- VSX components
- VSX synchronization
- Split brain scenarios
Layer 2 Optimization
- UDLD
- Private VLAN
- Basics of Spanning Tree Protocol
- RPVST+
Advanced OSPF
- OSPF overview
- Multi-area OSPF
- Route redistribution using ASBRs
- OSPF area types
- OSPF redundancy
- Additional OSPF features
Border Gateway Protocol
- BGP overview
- BGP neighbor connections
- BGP route advertisements
- BPG route selection metrics and tuning
- Controlling eBGP routes
Additional Layer 3 Features
- Virtual routing and forwarding (VRF)
- Policy-based routing
- ARP protection
- DHCP snooping
- IPsec and NAT
IGMP
- Multicast introduction
- IGMP overview
Multicast Routing
- PIM introduction
- PIM-DM
- PIM-SM
- PIM-SM build-up process
- BSR mechanism
- VSX and PIM
Access Control Lists
- ACL introduction and creation
- ACL application scenarios
- Applying ACLs
- Object groups
- Classification policies
- Restrictions and resource utilization
802.1X Authentication
- Authentication overview
- 802.1X authentication overview
- Configuring 802.1X on switch ports
- RADIUS attributes for the dynamic settings
- User roles overview
- Device fingerprinting overview
MAC Authentication
- MAC authentication overview
- MAC-auth with multiple clients
- MACsec overview
Dynamic Segmentation
- Dynamic Segmentation overview
- User-based tunneling
- Configuring UBT
- UBT with MC cluster
- Troubleshooting
REST API
- REST API introduction
- REST basic concepts
- Enabling the REST interface on an AOS-CX switch
- Sending requests to the REST API
- Accessing the REST API reference interface
- Use cases and resources
Quality of Service
- QoS overview
- Classifying traffic and applying policies
- LLDP-MED and device profiles
Network Analytics Engine (NAE)
- NAE overview
- NAE agents
- Agent actions
Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting overview
- Troubleshooting principles
- Components of effective troubleshooting
- Need for a methodical approach
- Problem-solving methodology
- Network troubleshooting tools