Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting (DCACIO) v5.2

The Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting course shows you how to operate and troubleshoot a Cisco data center network infrastructure running Cisco ACI. Through expert instruction and hands-on practice, you will learn about operational tools, best practices and caveats for configuration management, performance tracking, and more. You will practice troubleshooting common issues on a live fabric. Based on lessons learned in over 100 production deployments, this course gives you the real-world knowledge and skills to boost operational efficiencies in your own deployment.

• Cisco ACI Overview
• Cisco ACI Topology and Hardware
• Cisco ACI Fabric Discovery and Initialization
• Cisco ACI Access Policies
• Cisco ACI Configuration Review
• Creating a Base Configuration
• Cisco ACI Configuration Management
• Installation Checklist
• Cisco Hardware Installation and Fabric Discovery
• Cisco ACI Firmware Upgrades
• Cisco Smart Licensing
• Import / Export
• Configuration Snapshots and Rollbacks
• Configuration Zones
• Cisco ACI Fabric Rebuild or Recovery
• Converting Cisco NX-OS mode to ACI mode
• Cisco APIC Management Access Protocols
• General Recommended Practices from the Technical Assistance Center TAC
• Cisco ACI-OT Monitoring
• Cisco ACI Operation Tools
• Cisco ACI Syslog Configuration
• Viewing Events and Logs
• Troubleshooting Cisco ACI
• Health Scores
• Troubleshooting Cisco APIC
• Faults and Audit Logs in ACI

Each candidate should possess the following prerequisite knowledge and skills to fully benefit from this course:

• Understand ACI architecture and concepts needed to get an ACI fabric into production
• Experience configuring a 3-tier application with Layer2 and Layer3 connectivity and vCenter integration
• Completion of Cisco Implementing Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure (DCACI) course
• Familiarity with data center infrastructure operations
• Familiarity with management of Cisco data center switches
• Understanding of basic network troubleshooting and basic programming
• Data center operations

The following courses will provide you with the required ACI skills:

• Implementing Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure (DCACI)

IT professionals who support a Cisco ACI data center network, including:

• Data center engineers
• Field engineers
• Network engineers
• Systems engineers