Course Description
The Configuring and Operating Cisco EPN Manager (EPNM100) v3.0 course shows you how to install, provision, monitor, and maintain a packet and optical multilayer network using Cisco® Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) Manager. This course also covers configuration and compliance management, device configuration, and service management.
Course Information
Length: 5 day
Format: Lecture and Lab
Delivery Method: Virtual
Max. Capacity: 12
Learning Objectives
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Recognize the Cisco EPN Manager’s features
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Access Cisco EPN Manager and understand user accounts (roles, virtual domains)
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Navigate the Cisco EPN Manager’s user interface
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View the network inventory
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Monitor health and performance
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Manage alarms and events
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Generate reports
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Recognize the system requirements for Cisco EPN Manager, and procedures for new installations, upgrades, and high availability
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Manage licensing
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Configure the initial server settings and prepare the server for day-1 operations
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Establish initial device inventory and virtual domains
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Establish user accounts and their role-based access to EPN Manager’s features and devices
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Configure monitoring policies and alarm and event preferences
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Manage backup and restore, data retention and purging, and software updates
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Tune and monitor a server’s performance
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Archive, view, compare, and restore configuration files Update and manage software images
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Perform compliance audits
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Configure devices using templates
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Provision network services
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Archive and restore TL1 database files
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Update and manage optical devices’ software images
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Configure optical devices using the Detailed Device View
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Provision optical network services
Prerequisites
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Network management experience (polling, syslogs, IP addressing, ports, device access, credentials, Simple Network Management Protocol [SNMP], Secure Shell [SSH])
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Basic understanding of network and device performance statistics
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Basic understanding of network alarms and events
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Experience with manually configuring network devices and provisioning services using a device’s Command-Line Interface (CLI)
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VMware experience with the installation of OVA files on virtual machines and/or ISO software on bare-metal machines
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Experience with configuring optical network devices and provisioning optical circuits using either TL1 (CLI) or the Cisco Transport Controller application
Labs
- Access and Navigation
- Populating the Inventory
- Viewing the Network
- Monitoring Dashboards
- Monitoring Policies
- Alarms and Events
- Reports
- OVA Installation Video
- Server Setup
- Customizing Alarm Preferences
- Managing Groups and Virtual Domains
- User Accounts
- Maintenance
- Configuration Management
- Software Image Management
- Configuring Devices
- Manage Compliance Features
- CE Service Provisioning
- Lifecycle Use Case
- Optical Custom Profile
- Provision Optical Circuits
- Monitor Optical Services
Who Should Attend
Network operators, Network administrators, Optical network administrators, System administrators, System integrators and professional services, Cisco integrators and partners