The Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting (DCACIO) v5.2 course shows you how to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot Cisco® Nexus® 9000 Series Switches in Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode. Through expert instruction and hands-on practice, you will learn about operational tools, best practices, caveats, and practice troubleshooting common issues on a live fabric. Based on lessons learned in wide range of production deployments, this course gives you the real-world knowledge and skills to boost operational efficiencies in your own deployment.

This course will help you:

• Quickly ramp up on Cisco ACI® operational knowledge, skills, and best practices honed from real-world production deployments
• Gain hands-on troubleshooting techniques
• Optimize the benefits of using Cisco ACI, such as streamlined operations

After taking this course, you should be able to:

• Describe the Cisco ACI built0in tools for operating and monitoring the fabric.
• Describe the complex challenges related to monitoring and Cisco tools that address them: Cisco Nexus Dashboard and Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights.
• Describe fabric installation upgrade, backup, restore, and best practices for Cisco NX-OS-to-ACI migration and Cisco ACI management access.
• Describe the tools and best practices for monitoring ACI fabric.
• Describe best practices for Cisco ACI naming conventions, Day-0 configuration, VMM integration, and Cisco ACI migrations.

• Describing Cisco ACI Day-0 to Day-2 Operations
• Describing Day-2 Operational Tools
• Describing Cisco ACI Configuration Management
• Describing Cisco ACI Monitoring
• Cisco ACI Best Practices

Lab outline

• Safeguard ACI Operation Using Network Assurance Engine
• Explore Cisco Network Insights and Nexus Dashboard
• Configure SNMP and Perform Export/Import Operations
• Monitor Cisco ACI and Configure Syslog
• Configure ELAM Assistant
• Explore the Management Information Tree
• Configure SPAN

• Data center engineers
• Field engineers
• Network engineers
• Systems engineers
• Cisco integrators/partners
• Consulting systems engineer
• Technical solutions architect
• Service administrator
• Network manager

To fully benefit from this course, you should have the following knowledge and skills:

• Understanding of ACI architecture and concepts need to get an ACI fabric into production
• Familiarity with data center infrastructure operations
• Familiarity with management of Cisco data center switches
• Data center operations

The following course will provide you with the required ACI skills:

• Implementing Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure (DCACI)
• Implementing and Administering Cisco Solution (CCNA)
• Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations (DCFNDU)