Implementing ArubaOS-CX Switching, Rev. 20.21

Course Objectives

After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to:

• Use NetEdit to manage switch configurations
• Use the Network Analytics Engine (NAE) to implement scripting solutions to provide for proactive network management and monitoring
• Compare and contrast VSX, VSF, and backplane stacking
• Explain how VSX handles a split-brain scenario
• Implement and manage a VSX fabric
• Define ACLs and identify the criteria by which ACLs select traffic
• Configure ACLs on AOS-CX switches to select given traffic
• Apply static ACLs to interfaces to meet the needs of a particular scenario
• Examine an ACL configuration and determine the action taken on specific packets
• Deploy AOS-Switches in single-area and multi-area OSPF systems
• Use area definitions and summaries to create efficient and scalable multiple area designs
• Advertise routes to external networks in a variety of OSPF environments
• Promote fast, effective convergence during a variety of failover situations
• Use virtual links as required to establish non-direct connections to the backbone
• Implement OSFP authentication
• Establish and monitor BGP sessions between your routers and ISP routers
• Advertise an IP block to multiple ISP routers
• Configure a BGP router to advertise a default route in OSPF
• Use Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) to optimize forwarding of multicast traffic within VLANs
• Describe the differences between IGMP and IGMP snooping
• Distinguish between PIM-DM and PIM-SM
• Implement PIM-DM and PIM-SM to route multicast traffic
• Implement Virtual Routing Forwarding (VRF) policies to contain and segregate routing information
• Create route maps to control routing policies
• Understand the use of user roles to control user access on AOS-CX switches
• Implement local user roles on AOS-CX switches and downloadable user roles using a ClearPass solution
• Implement 802.1X on AOS-CX switch ports
• Integrate AOS-CX switches with an Aruba ClearPass solution, which might apply dynamic role settings
• Implement RADIUS-based MAC Authentication (MAC-Auth) on AOS-CX switch ports
• Configure captive portal authentication on AOS-CX switches to integrate them with an Aruba ClearPass solution
• Combine multiple forms of authentication on a switch port that supports one or more simultaneous users
• Configure dynamic segmentation on AOS-CX switches
• Explain how technologies such as sFlow and traffic mirroring allow you to monitor network traffic
• Describe how AOS-CX switches prioritize traffic based on its queue
• Configure AOS-CX switches to honor the appropriate QoS marks applied by other devices
• Configure AOS-CX switches to select traffic, apply the appropriate QoS marks, and place the traffic in the proper priority queues
• Implement rate limiting
• Understand how the Virtual Output Queuing (VOQ) feature mitigates head-of-line (HOL) blocking
• Configure a voice VLAN and LLDP-MED