Detailed Course Outline
Introduction to Session Smart Routing
- Describe SD-WAN and the Juniper Session Smart Router
- Review Smart Packet Walkthrough
Interfaces for Managing your Session Smart Routers
- Describe and navigate the Session Smart PCLI
- Describe and navigate the Session Smart GUI
- Describe and navigate Session Smart APIs
Lab 1: Interfaces for Managing Your Session Smart Routers
Global and Local Data on the Session Smart Router
- Describe elements of the Session Smart Data Model
- Describe the difference between Global and Local Data
- Describe the elements of Global Data in the Session Smart Data Model
- Describe the elements of Local Data in the Session Smart Data Model
Lab 2: Configuring Global Data Elements
Interacting with the Platform
- Describe the Session Smart Conductor
- Describe the Mist-redirect ZTP installation process
- Describe the Session Smart ISO
- Describe the OTP installation process
- Describe configuration and backups on the Session Smart Router
- Describe upgrading the Session Smart Conductor and the Session Smart Router
Lab 3: Interacting with the Platform
Session Smart Peering
- Describe the Configuration Template
- Describe Peers, BFD, Adjacencies, and Neighborhoods
- Review the Session Smart Data Model
Lab 4: Deploy a Branch Router and Configure Peering
Session Smart Routing
- Describe forwarding information base, routing information base, and services information base
- Describe Service Routes
- Describe Ethernet over SVR
Lab 5: Routing
Security Policies
- Describe Security Policies
- Configure Security Policies
- Apply Security Policies
- Describe IDP Policies
Lab 6: Security Policies
Multiple Paths Between Session Smart Routers
- Explain and configure service policies
- Explain and configure load balancing
- Explain and configure vectors
Lab 7: Configuring Multiple Paths Between Session Smart Routers
Redundancy and High Availability on the Session Smart Router
- Explain and configure VRRP
- Explain and configure dual-node high availability
- Explain and configure dual-router high availability
- Explain and configure link aggregation and LACP
- Describe conductor high availability
Lab 8: High Availability
Traditional Routing on the Session Smart Router
- Describe routing instances, VRFs, and static routes
- Explain and configure peering with a BGP neighbor
- Explain and configure BGP over Secure Vector Routing
Lab 9: Traditional Routing
Troubleshooting in the Session Smart GUI
- Describe notification interfaces
- Describe investigative interfaces
Lab 10: Troubleshooting Using the GUI
Troubleshooting Packet Captures
- Explain and implement packet captures on the Session Smart Router
- Explain and implement session captures on the Session Smart Router
Lab 11: Packet Capture
Troubleshooting Session Smart Logs
- Describe general log information
- Describe troubleshooting using conductor logs
- Describe troubleshooting using router logs
Lab 12: Logs
Troubleshooting Peer Paths
- Review elements of the Session Smart Data Model
- Describe BFD and configure BFD settings
- Describe troubleshooting BFD
Lab 13: Troubleshooting Peer Paths
Troubleshooting Salt Connectivity
- Describe troubleshooting Salt connectivity in specific scenarios
- Describe troubleshooting Salt connectivity over in-band management
Lab 14: Troubleshooting Salt Connectivity
Application Troubleshooting
- Describe troubleshooting steps, commands, and tables
- Identify the tenant and the service
- Utilize routing tables
- Utilize ping tools, capture tools, and logs
- Describe end-user testing and continued troubleshooting
Network Address Translation
- Describe and configure Network Address Translation on the Session Smart Router
WAN Assurance
- Describe the advantages of Mist AI
- Describe WAN Assurance
- Describe the Mist and Session Smart Router Data Models
- Describe Service Level Expectations
Session Smart Router for Classified Networks
- Describe the key concepts and how SSRfC works
- Describe how to perform installation and upgrades
- Describe the Local Config Override mode
Processes on the Session Smart Router
- Describe the processes on the Session Smart Router