System Administration 4.1 Course
Instructs Network Operators and System Administrators for deploying A10 ACOS devices in data center environments in preparation for additional application-oriented implementation. Provides the necessary foundation for teams continuing onto ACOS application courses.
Objectives
From a set of three blank ACOS devices, students build a system deployment with these attributes:
- Layer 2 – 3 environment including VLANs, and IP routing
- Device cluster environment with a single management point
- High availability with multiple active devices
- Multi-tenant environment with limited-scope administration
- Remote authentication and authorization
Students also use device tools that monitor, diagnose, and restore the system configuration.
Prerequisites
- OSI reference model
- Network topology and administration
- An industry standard switching and routing CLI
Audience
- Network Operations
- Development Operations
- Network Security
- Students preparing for Application Courses
Course Outline
- Initial ACOS Configuration
- Base system configuration through the CLI and GUI
- Backup and restore
- System upgrade
- Configuration profiles
- Centralized Configuration Management: aVCS
- Clustering devices into a centralized chassis
- aVCS topology: vMaster and vBlade devices
- vMaster election and maintenance
- Staggered aVCS upgrade
- High Availability: VRRP-A
- Active-Standby mode and failover
- N+M deployments
- Active device selection
- Application Delivery Partitions (ADP)
- Layer 3 Virtualization Partitions (L3V)
- Shared and private partitions
- Public and private objects
- Role-based Administration
- Admin account creation through the CLI and GUI
- Assigning privileges, passwords, and access rights
- Roles: predefined and user-defined
- Session management
- Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
- Using AAA servers to manage device and command access
- Account and command tracking
- Control Plane Logging
- ACOS logging
- External logging and emailing events
- Events and thresholds
- SNMP
- Monitoring ACOS devices remotely
- A10 MIBs
- Configuring Traps
- OID discovery
- aXAPI Overview
- aXAPI architecture and session flow
- API methods
Class Structure
- Classroom Discussion: 40%
- Lab Exercises: 60%
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