Course Overview

Course Duration

4 days (Classroom or Virtual)

Target Audience

Network Professionals that are looking to further advance their expertise and manage networks based on HPE ArubaOS-CX technologies.

Course Prerequisites

Highly recommended prerequisites are the Aruba Certified Switching Professional (ACSP) certification or professional level networking experience in routing and switching and campus design.

Course Contents

• ​Introduction to ArubaOS-CX Hardware/Software Architecture
• Device management interfaces and configuration checkpoints
• Layer 2 Switching and Features
• Layer 3 Routing and Features
• Aggr/Core Virtualization (VSX)
• Layer 3 Advance Routing OSPF
• Layer 3 Advance Routing BGP
• Multicast Routing
• ACL & Classifier Policy
• QoS
• Rest API
• Network Analytic Engine (NAE)
• NetEdit Tool
• Appendix A – REST API
• Appendix B – Python Overview
• Appendix C – NAE Scripting
• Appendix D – Ansible and Automation

Course Objectives

After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to:

• Describe the ArubaOS-CX switches' hardware architecture
• Describe the ArubaOS-CX software architecture and explain key distinguishing points
• List device management interfaces and configuration checkpoints
• Understand System Management and benefits of using Event logs and Accounting log
• Understand configuration file management and benefits of Checkpoint creation and rollback
• Be familiar with configuration of Layer 2 switching technologies & features
• Be familiar with VLAN management, Layer 2 switching ports, Link-Aggregation (LAG/LACP)
• Understand Spanning Tree Protocols (RPVST and MSTP)
• Be familiar with the different types of L3 interfaces (ROP/SVI/Routed LAG/Loopback/GRE Tunnel)
• Understand and configure VRF-Lite
• Understand how Aruba’s VSX technology helps you simplify your network architecture, operations, and management while providing resiliency and scalability
• Understand how VSX meets high Availability needs of the customers
• Configure OSFP in single and multi-area designs, optimize, and tune OSPF
• Control route redistribution and LSA filtering based on the needs of the scenario
• Configure internal and external BGP
• Influence BGP route selection using route maps
• Explain how IGMP can be used to discover multicast groups
• Describe how IGMP snooping can be used to filter multicast traffic at Layer 2
• Explain how to implement PIM-SM (RP and BSR) to route multicast traffic
• Configure ACLs to filter Ethernet and IP traffic, based on the scenario needs
• Configure classifier-based policies to implement class-based traffic mirroring, rate limiting, and traffic policing
• Determine how an ArubaOS-CX switch will prioritize traffic based on incoming priority value and QoS trust settings
• Use classifier-based policies to assign traffic a new priority based on customer requirements
• Customize CoS maps, DSCP maps, and queue profiles
• Understand how scheduling mechanisms differ and select an appropriate scheduling profile
• Send REST requests to ArubaOS-CX REST API
• Use the ArubaOS-CX API Reference Interface to explore the API
• Use Ansible to automate switch configuration, using the REST API
• Use Python scripts to issue requests to the ArubaOS-CX REST API and to handle the responses
• Explain how the ArubaOS-CX NAE helps you to monitor and troubleshoot
• Analyze NAE data in the Web UI
• Install scripts from ASE and create agents based on the scripts
• Understand how to use Aruba NetEdit to orchestrate multiple switch configurations with intelligent capabilities including search, edit, validation (including conformance checking), deployment and audit.