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Overview:

Cisco recently released a major update to the CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS) v2.5. Global Knowledge's CWENT course now teaches to v2.5 of this release. The individual applications included in the CWENT training experience are:

  • Common Services 3.0
  • Campus Manager 4.0
  • Resource Manager Essentials 4.0
  • Device Fault Manager 2.0
  • Internetwork Performance Monitor 2.6
  • CiscoView 6.1

Why Take CWENT from Global Knowledge?

We've enhanced our labs beyond what you'll find in a standard Authorized Cisco CWENT course. The most expensive component of a CiscoWorks training infrastructure is the CiscoWorks server. CiscoWorks LMS v2.5 requires a minimum of 2 GB of RAM. In most training course labs, all of the students must share centralized CiscoWorks servers. We have made the investment to provide an optimal learning environment. Each pod, shared by two students, has its own CiscoWorks LMS server with 3 GB of RAM. This ensures that the students experience all of the LMS setup and configuration. Instead of finding the devices pre-populated in the LMS databases, the students will configure and execute device discoveries. Instead of finding the configuration retrieval settings pre-configured, the students will enable and schedule configuration retrievals. Administrative tasks that can only be executed from one location at a time are performed in our labs, but not in many other training course labs in which shared CiscoWorks servers are used.

In addition to our labs' ideal LMS server environment, each pod shared by two students has a router and three switches dedicated to it for management. Students will have read-only privileges on other pods' devices as well as to a shared infrastructure. All in all, there are over 75 network devices to manage, including a mixture of IOS and Catalyst OS switches, internal and external routers, and LAN and WAN links.

Description:

1. Describing Network Management Fundamentals


  • Defining Network Management
  • Exploring the Network Management Process

2. Introducing CiscoWorks


  • Describing CiscoWorks Solution Sets
  • Providing an Overview to CiscoWorks Applications

3. Jump-Starting CiscoWorks


  • Starting to Use CiscoWorks
  • Common Services: Enabling CiscoWorks Security and Multi-Server Trust
  • Managing the Device and Credential Repository
  • Populating the CiscoWorks Databases
  • Configuring User-Defined Groups

4. Implementing Asset Management


  • Introducing Asset Management
  • Running Asset Reports
  • Watching for Inventory Changes

5. Managing Network Connectivity


  • Managing Device Connectivity Introduction
  • Managing Host, End User, and IP Phone Connectivity
  • Diagnosing Device Connectivity Problems

6. Managing Device Configurations


  • Introducing Device Configuration Management
  • Managing Configuration Files
  • Managing VLAN Configurations
  • Managing Device Software Images

7. Managing Network Performance


  • Introducing Performance Management
  • Monitoring Response Time Using IPM
  • Monitoring Device Performance Using CiscoView

8. Managing Faults in the Network


  • Monitoring Device Performance Using CiscoView
  • Introducing Fault Management
  • Detecting and Analyzing Real-Time Faults
  • Detecting Faults via Syslog Messages
  • Troubleshooting with Device Center

9. Performing CiscoWorks System Administration


  • Deploying CiscoWorks
  • Administration Tasks

Agenda:

Lab 1: The Global Knowledge CWENT Lab Environment

Familiarize yourself with the lab environment. Modify device management configurations and privileged credentials.

Lab 2: Getting Started with Common Services

Logging in to CiscoWorks LMS for the first time. Configuring user IDs. Configure and initiate a discovery of the lab network devices.

Lab 3: Populating the Application Databases

Using the credentials stored in the Common Services DCR, populate the databases of the Campus Manager and the Resource Manager Essentials applications.

Lab 4: Asset Management

Retrieve detailed inventory information for the devices in the lab network. Schedule inventory updates to track future changes.

Lab 5: Campus Manager Topology Services

Visualize the lab network topology. View switch to switch, router to switch, and router to router topologies. View which VLANs are configured on which switches, and view the spanning trees of those VLANs.

Lab 6: User Tracking

When properly configured, Campus Manager discovers which hosts are connected to which switch ports. You can then query this User Tracking database by many different criteria. Examples include MAC address, IP address, or hostname.

Lab 7: Path Analysis

View the switches and routers that must be traversed for one host to communicate with another host.

Lab 8: The Configuration Archive

Configure RME to maintain a historical archive of device configurations. Retrieve configurations from the archive. View configurations side by side, with the differences highlighted by color coding.

Lab 9: Config Editor and CiscoView

Config Editor and CiscoView both allow an administrator to modify the configuration of network devices, one device at a time. Config Editor is similar to editing a devices configuration with a text editor. CiscoView provides a GUI interface for device configuration.

Lab 10: NetConfig

NetConfig facilitates the application of templates to update the configurations of many devices at one time. This is very useful for monotonous tasks that should be repeated regularly, such as password changes or SNMP community string changes. It is also very useful for ensuring that a large group of devices is configured in a consistent fashion.

Lab 11: VLAN Management

Use Topology Services to define new VLANs, delete legacy VLANs, and perform VLAN port assignment.

Lab 12: Software Image Management

Build a library of all of the operating systems on a network, which is one step toward disaster recovery preparation. Run reports on the installed operating systems. Update the operating system running on Cisco devices.

Lab 13: Internetwork Performance Monitor

Use a Cisco device as a data collector for performance analysis. Collect application performance data from the same location as the users of that application. Test and track network latency and jitter.

Lab 14: CiscoView Performance Monitoring

Use the CiscoView application to monitor real-time interface and backplane utilization on Cisco devices.

Lab 15: Device Fault Manager

Use Device Fault Manager to detect faults on Cisco devices. Configure DFM's notification options.

Lab 16: Syslog Analysis and Change Audit Services

Run reports to retrieve valuable data from the syslog message databases. Set up automatic email notification for pertinent syslog messages. View reports on the inventory, configuration, and software changes that have occurred during the week with Change Audit Services.

Lab 17: System Maintenance

Back up the CiscoWorks LMS databases. Trim the CiscoWorks LMS log files. Run diagnostic reports on the CiscoWorks LMS server.

Audience:

Network managers and other networking professionals (administrators and technicians) responsible for the management and maintenance of Cisco networks.

Objectives:

  • Better manage your network
  • Diagram the Cisco device to Cisco device topology of your network, including the layer 2 spanning trees in your campus networks
  • Collect and track accurate inventory data from Cisco devices
  • Automatically maintain a historical archive of all the configurations deployed on your Cisco devices
  • Update the configurations on your Cisco devices, including updating many devices at one time
  • Update the operating systems running on your Cisco devices
  • Analyze network performance with latency and jitter tests
  • Detect potentially complex fault situations on your Cisco devices
  • How to maintain your CiscoWorks LMS server

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