DCACIT - Troubleshooting Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

Course Description 

The Troubleshooting Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure (DCACIT) v5.2 course teaches you through a combination of lectures and labs the key components and procedures needed to troubleshoot Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode. This course is for advanced engineers who have installed and managed existing fabrics or for those who have completed the Implementing Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure-Advanced (DCACI) course.

How You'll Benefit

This course will help you:
Learn how to design policy-driven automation to streamline the deployment lifecycle
Integrate a comprehensive solution using any hypervisor, supporting any workload, for any location, and in any cloud
Expand your knowledge of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches

Who Should Enroll

This course is ideal for developers and engineers including:
Network engineers
Systems engineers
Data center engineers
Consulting systems engineers
Technical solutions architects
Cisco integrators/partners
Field engineers
Server administrators
Network managers

Course Objectives

After taking this course, you should be able to:
Apply troubleshooting methodology to Cisco ACI networks
Troubleshoot logical and physical constructs of the Cisco ACI policy
Understand Cisco APIC and its troubleshooting aspects
Troubleshoot endpoint learning in Cisco ACI
Troubleshoot Layer 2 traffic bridging and Layer 3 routing in the Cisco ACI network
Troubleshoot hypervisor integration in Cisco ACI
Troubleshoot Layer 4 to Layer 7 service insertion
Troubleshoot contracts and route leaking in Cisco ACI

Course Prerequisites

You should have the following knowledge and skills before attending this course:
Familiarity with data center infrastructure operations
Familiarity with management of Cisco data center switches
Basic programming
Basic network troubleshooting
System or network administration (Linux or Windows)
Data center operations
These are the recommended Cisco offerings that may help you meet these prerequisites:
Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA®) v1.0
Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations (DCFNDU) v1.0
Implementing Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure (DCACI) v1.0
Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure Operation and Troubleshooting (DCACIO) v5.2

Course Outline

Describing Cisco ACI Troubleshooting Methodology
Troubleshooting Logical and Physical Constructs
Troubleshooting Cisco APIC
Troubleshooting Endpoint Learning
Troubleshooting Layer 2
Troubleshooting Layer 3 Routing
Troubleshooting VMM Integration
Troubleshooting Layer 4-7 Service Insertion
Troubleshooting Contracts and Route Leaking

Lab Outline

Verify Endpoints
Examine VLANs
Troubleshoot ACI Policy
Troubleshoot CMM integrat