Course: Cisco Application Control Engine Appliance
Duration: 4 Day Hands-On Lab & Lecture Course
Price: $ 2,995.00
Learning Credits: 30
Hitachi HiPass: 4 Description:
Implementing the Cisco ACE Appliance is a four-day, instructor-led, lecture and lab course. You will learn how to deploy and configure the Cisco Catalyst 4710 Application Control Engine (ACE) Appliance.
This course covers all of the key features of the Cisco ACE appliance, including resource virtualization and management, server load balancing (Layer 2-4 and Layer 7), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) termination and offload, and security features like application-layer inspection and fixups.
To participate in the hands-on labs in this class, you need to bring a laptop computer with the following:
We recommend using at least a Pentium 4 or better and 1 GB of RAM or more. We recommend running Windows XP Professional SP3 or greater (Vista & Windows 7/8).
Mac & Linux machines are also supported.
All PCs require Internet Explorer 7 or greater, Mozilla FireFox, or Google Chrome. Note: When testing connectivity, Mozilla & Chrome may not be able to fully complete the tests as intended.
All students should have administrator rights to their PCs.
If you do not have administrator rights to your PC, you at least need permissions to download, install, and run Active-X controls in Internet Explorer or Cisco Any Connect Client.
If you are participating in a WebEx event, you should have internet access served by at least a 512K link, a full T1 Connection is recommended.
All PCs require the latest Java Runtime Environment, which can be downloaded from www.java.com.
Objective:
Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives: Describe IP application delivery with the Cisco ACE appliance
Describe the configuration tasks necessary to successfully deploy a Cisco ACE appliance
Describe the structure and function of the Modular Policy CLI statements used to configure Cisco ACE features
Describe the methods used to manage the Cisco ACE appliance
Describe the Cisco ACE features that provide IP application-based security on the Cisco ACE appliance
Describe the capabilities and configuration of the Cisco ACE features used to provide load balancing of IP-based applications
Describe the health monitoring capabilities of the Cisco ACE appliance
Identify the Layer 7 processing options used to provide advanced application networking
Describe the Cisco ACE support for SSL protocol processing
Describe the Cisco ACE web application acceleration, optimization, and compression features
Describe the high-availability features of the Cisco ACE appliance, which are used to provide reliable application networking services
Describe a methodology used to design and configure multiple Cisco ACE features
Prerequisites:
The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course are as follows:
TCP/IP protocol
Who Should Attend:
The primary audience for this course are systems engineers and network architects who need to design or deploy server load-balancing solutions using the Cisco ACE appliance.
Outline:
Course Introduction Overview
Course Goal and Objectives Course Flow
Additional References
Lesson 1: Introducing the Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance IP Protocol Stack Review
IP Application Review Web Technology Overview Introducing the Cisco ACE Lesson 2: Deploying Cisco ACE
Connecting Cisco ACE to the Network Cisco ACE Installation Procedure Cisco ACE Appliance GUI
Network Topologies Virtualization
Resource Management
Authorizing Management Users Configuring Interfaces
Lesson 3: Modular Policy CLI Class Maps
Policy Maps
Applying Policy Maps
Lesson 4: Managing the Cisco ACE Appliance Permitting Management Traffic
SNMP Manageability Lesson 5: Security Features
IP Access Control Lists
TCP/IP Fragmentation/Reassembly TCP/IP Normalization
Network Address Translation Lesson 6: Layer 4 Load Balancing
Load-Balancing Concepts Load-Balancing Algorithms
Configuring Layer 4 Load Balancing Lesson 7: Health Monitoring
Health Monitoring Overview Active Health Probes
Using TCL Scripting
Lesson 8: Layer 7 Protocol Processing
Configuring HTTP Layer 7 Load Balancing Persistent and Pipelined HTTP Extensions Server Reuse
Session Persistence Protocol Inspection HTTP Inspection
FTP Protocol Processing Other Inspected Protocols
Lesson 9: Processing Secure Connections Digital Encryption Technologies SSL Service Options
Configuring a Public Key Infrastructure Configuring SSL Proxy Services
Lesson 10: Deploying Application Acceleration and Optimization Web Application Acceleration Architecture
FlashForward Delta Optimization Smart Redirect Fast Redirect FlashConnect
Just-in-Time Object Acceleration Adaptive Dynamic Cache
Compression Overview Lesson 11: High Availability
Redundancy Object Tracking Failover
State Replication
Fault-Tolerance Configuration
Displaying Fault-Tolerance Information Lesson 12: Integrating Multiple Features
Analyzing Network Requirements Designing Cisco ACE Contexts Designing Cisco ACE Features
Configuring Multiple Integrated Features Lab Outline
Lab 1: Implementing Virtualization
Lab 4: Implementing Health Monitoring Lab 5: Configuring Layer 7 Load Balancing Lab 6: Enabling Sticky Connections
Lab 7: Enabling Protocol Inspection Lab 8: Configuring SSL Termination Lab 9: Enabling HTTP Optimizations Lab 10: Integrating Multiple Features
Lab 11: Troubleshooting Case Study 1: Common SLB Configuration Errors
Lab 12: Troubleshooting Case Study 2: Common Layer 7 SLB Configuration Errors