Detailed Course Outline
Module 1: Course Overview
- Participant introductions
- Administration and housekeeping
- Facilities
- Participants’ responsibilities
- Course objectives
- Course outline
- Exercises
- Survey
Module 2: Application Failover
- Summarize the NNMi application failover functionality
- Configure application failover
- Use cluster administration commands
Module 3: NNMi Global Network Management
- Explain the functions and features of Global Network Management (GNM)
- Define the two main components of GNM
- Analyze use scenarios for GNM
- Outline different deployment scenarios for GNM
- List prerequisites for GNM deployment
- Explain GNM-iSPI relations
- Identify high-level GNM architecture
- Explain how to plan and configure GNM for NNMi
Module 4: Integrating NNMi, LDAP, and NA
- Describe how to integrate NNMi with Lightweight Directory Protocol (LDAP) and Microsoft Active Directory (AD)
- Integrate NNMi with Network Automation (NA)
Module 5: Custom Attributes
- Add custom attributes to nodes
- Add custom attributes to interfaces
- Populate custom attributes from the CLI
Module 6: Advanced Protocols IPv6 and SNMPv3
- Specify the types of IPv6 addresses
- Identify the notation used in writing IPv6 addresses
- Describe how NNMi supports IPv6
- Explain how to locate and manage IPv6 and IPv4 devices
- List the prerequisites for deploying IPv6
- List the components and architecture of SNMPv3
- Explain how SNMPv3 security works
- Describe how to configure NNMi to manage SNMPv3-enabled devices
- List the general steps for configuring a network device for SNMPv3
- Describe the main design goals for SNMPv3
Module 7: User Interface Customization
- Create a menu
- Create a menu item
- Create a launch action
- Create a line graph action
Module 8: Advanced Incident Configuration
- Define a node and interface group specific to trap handling
- Use the following event correlation features:
- Dampening
- Payload filtering
- Pairwise
- Rate
- Deduplication
- Custom correlation
- Causal rules
Module 9: Custom Poller
- Define a MIB expression
- Configure a collection policy
- Define a collection threshold
- Export collected data to a CSV file
- Define MIB expressions and collections using the CLI
Module 10: Managing Virtualization
- Identify the hypervisor (ESXi Server) hosting a virtual machine (VM)
- Use a loom map to identify the hosting hypervisor's Network Interface Card (NIC) that the VM is connected to
- Use a wheel map to identify the hosting hypervisor's NIC that the VM is connected to
Module 11: NNM iSPI for QA and NNM iSPI for MPLS
- Identify the functionality of NNM iSPI Performance for Quality Assurance Software (NNM iSPI for QA)
- Configure and use NNM iSPI for QA
- Identify the functionality of NNM iSPI for MPLS
- Configure and use NNM iSPI for MPLS
- Identify the functionality of NNM iSPI for Traffic
Module 12: Introduction to NOM on OMT
- Describe OPTIC Management Toolkit (OMT)
- Describe Network Operations Management (NOM)
- Describe NOM deployment modes