Aruba OS-CX Switching Fundamentals (CXF)

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$4,000.00 USD

Duration
5 Days

Delivery Methods
Virtual Instructor Led
Private Group

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Course Overview

This course teaches you the fundamental skills necessary to configure and manage modern, open standards-based networking solutions using Aruba's OS-CX routing and switching technologies. This course consists of approximately 60% lecture and 40% hands-on lab exercises to help you learn how to implement and validate small to medium enterprise network solutions. This 5-day course prepares network professionals for the Aruba Certified Switching Associate exam.

In this course, participants learn about ArubaOS-CX switch technologies including: Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs), secure access using features like dynamic segmentation, redundancy technologies such as Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP), link aggregation techniques including Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP), and switch virtualization with Aruba’s Virtual Switching Framework (VSF). You also learn about IP Routing including static and dynamic IP routing with Open Shortest Path First (OSPF).

Course Objectives

Explain Networking Fundamentals
Describe and review the Aruba Switching portfolio with customers
Install and configure devices running the ArubaOS-CX Network Operating System
Describe and configure VLANs
Explain, describe and configure Spanning Tree Protocol
Understand when to use VRRP and how to configure it
Explain and configure Link Aggregation
Understand and configure IP Routing
Explain IP Subnetting
Understand and configure OSPFv2 – Single Area
Describe and configure Switch Stacking using VSF
Configuration of Aruba solutions using Secure Management and Maintenance methodologies
Manage, monitor, administer and operate Aruba solutions using Aruba's NetEdit tool

Who Should Attend?

Ideal candidates are IT Professionals who deploy small-to-medium scale enterprise network solutions based on Aruba products and technologies.

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Course Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Agenda

2 - TCP/IP Stack

Overview
Ethernet frames
IPv4 Header
TCP Header – Three-way Handshake
TCP Header – Sequence Numbers
TCP Header – Port Numbers
TCP Header
UPD Header

3 - Basic Networking with Aruba Solutions

Networking devices: Switches, Routers, Multilayer Switches, APs, Mobility Controllers, Firewalls, Servers (HTTP, DHCP, DNS, Telnet, FTP)
2-Tier vs 3-Tier hierarchy
Switching Portfolio (AOS switches & AOS-CX switches) is this introducing both portfolio on a couple of slide and few slides on AOS-CX hardware architecture, software architecture and intro to NAE high level.
Introduction to AOS-CX and feature set
Port numbering
Accessing Aruba OS-CX CLI
Prompt modes/levels and navigation
Context sensitive help
Show logs, configuration, interfaces, transceivers, flash, version
Hostname/interface name, enabling interfaces
Link Layer Discovery Protocol
ICMP and reachability testing tools: Ping and Traceroute
PoE (standards one slide and what we support and one or two slide on configuration and verifications.)