Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will have gained the working knowledge to:

• Successfully configure and manage the Extreme Management Center network management tool
• Take the Extreme Management Center Specialist certification exam

Outline

Introduction

• Extreme Management Center (XMC) Server requirements and licensing
• XMC Client-Server architecture
• Accessing and navigating XMC including help and search tools
• Application categorisation within XMC

Administration

• Managing user’s authorization within XMC using groups
• Administrative options to customize and define XMCs operational environment
• Administration tools for basic tasks including performing backups, determining XMC system resource utilization, and diagnostics
• XMC licensing management

Configuration Management

• Mechanisms and protocols used by XMC
• Automatic discovery of devices and using site templates and scripts
• Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) to automate configuration
• Manually add devices and change polling parameters
• Utilizing device group categories and port/element groups

Management Tools

• MIBs to manage devices
• Pre-configured FlexViews to customize and create your own FlexViews
• Use scripts to deploy immediately or via scheduling

Maps

• Wired and wireless network maps
• Network details identifying MLAG, EAPS etc. configuration
• Wireless network maps to determine:
  • Signal strength using Heat maps
  • 2.4 or 5 Gig coverage
  • Client Data Rates

Inventory Management

• Upload a device firmware and upgrade devices
• Backup and upload network device configurations
• Compare Device Configurations
• Manage device inventory within XMC using asset tracking, inventory events and reports

Accounting Management

• Device and interface statistics collection
• Network interrogation to see:
  • Number of flows for each application
  • Are they a threat to your network
• Application Analytics and application response time and network response time
• Reports for network and performance

Application Analytics

• Extreme Application Analytics Deployment model and configuration
• Interface deployment modes for collecting data
• Best Practices for Port Mirroring, GRE tunnels and Traffic Domains.
• Integration of XMC, Analytics, Extreme Control and Wireless features to provide network utilization and client details

Fault Management

• Maps to locate devices, clients, threats
• Compass as a search tool
• PortView
• FlexViews
• Device and system alarms

Performance Management

• Alarms and thresholds for system and network devices
• Response times of Applications
  • For the application or for individual clients
• Different flows

Reporting

• Customizing your Dashboard
• Pre-defined reports and creating custom reports
• Report Designer for report scheduling
• Scheduler to run reports and scripts
• Applications and Flows to control traffic

Security Management

• Policy Enabled Networks
• What Policy is
• Role-based networks
• Policy and QoS configuration using XMC
• Domains
• Save and import Policy domains
• Traffic mirroring with Policy
• Wireshark with Policy
• Deploying policy via single or multiple domains
• Network monitoring for rule hits using XMC

End-System Visibility

• Managing end-user network access with Extreme Access Control
• Authentication types supported
• Managing and tracking end users on the network
• Managing devices through Policy or RFC3580
• Refine network access using rules and profiles

Target Audience

This course is intended for Network Managers, Architects, and Systems Integrators responsible for network management.