Detailed Course Outline
Introduction to Aruba Switching
- Switches overview
- Architectures
NetEdit
- Overview
- Centralized configuration
- Switch groups/templates
- AOS-CX mobile App
Network Analytics Engine (NAE)
- Overview
- Configuration
- Core NAE feature lab
- sflow, local mirror, remote mirror
VSX
- VSF vs. VSX: access and Agg/core design
- Stacking review
- VSF and uni/multi packet forwarding
- Stack fragments / split brain
- VSX Overview: roles, control, data, management planes
- VSX components (ISL, Keepalive, VSX LAG, Active Gateway, Active-Forwarding, Link Delay)
- Split Brain scenario
- Upstream Connectively Options (ROP single VRF, SVIs with multiple VRF, VSX Lag SVIs with multiple VRFs)
- Upstream/Downstream unicast traffic flow (South-North and North-South)
- VSX Configuration: VSX and Active Gateway
- VSX firmware updates
ACLs
- Overview: types, components
- MAC ACL, Standard ACL, Extended ACL,
- Classifier-based Policies
- Configuration: wildcard bits, logging, pacl, vacl, racl
Advanced OSPF
- Review basic OSPF
- Multi area: setup and aggregation
- Area-Types Stub, Totally Stub, NSSA, Totally NSSA
- External routes
- OSPF tuning: costs, bfd, gr, auth, vrrp, virt link
BGP
- Overview: i/e bgp, as numbers
- Best path selection
- Configuration: route announcement
- Route filtering to prevent transit as
IGMP
- Overview
- Querier
- Snooping
- Unknown multicasts
Multicast Routing: PIM
- Overview
- PIM DM
802.1X Authentication
- Overview: roles, requirements, coa, accounting
- Dynamic port configuration: avp, acl, qos, VLAN
- Port-based vs. user-based: examples
- Radius service tracking, critical VLAN
MAC Authentication
- Overview: Use cases
- Radius-based MAC Auth
Dynamic Segmentation
- Leverage dynamic segmentation features
- Configure tunneled-node on AOS-CX switches
- Describe when and how to configure PAPI enhanced security, high availability, and fallback switching for tunneled-node
Quality of Service
- Overview
- VoQ (Virtual Output Queue)
- QOS: queueing, QOS marks, dot1p, dscp
- Trust levels
- QOS configuration: port, VLAN, policies
- Interaction with user roles
- Queue configuration
- Rate limiters
- LLDP-MED
Additional Routing Technologies
- VRF - Management VRF
- PBR
- MDNS
- PIM SM
Capitve Portal Authentication
- Overview of guest solutions
- Built-in web auth
- ClearPass redirect with CPPM