IronView Network Management (ETH 503)
Prerequisites
To fully benefit from this course you should have attended the Basic Switch/Router Configuration and Management (ETH 103) and the Introduction to Web Switching and Load Balancing (ETH 202). It is also recommended that you have previous exposure to general network management issues in a Brocade environment. A working knowledge of the Brocade CLI is a must.
We strongly recommend that students bring their own PC to act as the console during labs.
- Recommended personal hardware
- Laptop Personal Computer with W95 or higher
- Ethernet NIC card
- CD Drive
- Serial Interface (DB-9 Connector)
- Netscape 6.1 or better or Internet Explorer 5.5 or better
Course Content
The ETH 503 course is an in-depth study of network management Using IronView Network Manager as it relates to the Brocade products. The course focuses mainly on the IronView product. It covers the theory of operations, configuration, troubleshooting and network analysis using the Brocade products. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to install and configure IronView, configure Brocade devices, monitor a given network, and troubleshoot network problem using IronView as an analysis tool.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, the student will be able to:
- Discover Brocade network devices
- Retrieve and download device images
- Create, download, and apply access control lists
- Create VLANs
- Use sFlow to monitor and retrieve accounting statistics from Brocade devices
- Monitor changes to Brocade network devices
- Store and retrieve network events
- Setup Brocade device and ports for mass download of configurations
- Restore configurations
Course Outline
- IronView Fundamentals and Installation
- Describe the basic capabilities of IronView and the Subjects to be Covered in the Class
- Describe components of IronView - server, clients, managers
- List Installation Requirements
- List the Steps to Install IronView Network Management
- Describe use of the configuration. properties file.
- Edit the configuration. properties file
- Backup and Restore IronView Network Manager
- Backup and restore IronView database.db
- Connect Client to Server
- Managing Roles
- Describe what a role is
- Implement IronView Roles
- Create Roles
- Create User Accounts
- Discover
- Configure and Enable Discovery
- List Discovered Devices
- List what subnets and IP address have been discovered
- Reports
- View reports
- Use the reports to retrieve device information
- Use the reports for configuration
- Export reports to a spread sheet
- Managing Devices, Ports, Password, and the Tool Bar
- Describe Port Group Trees
- Update the IronView Network Manager Database to Reflect Modified Device Configurations
- Modify Device Passwords and Community Strings
- Create, Modify and Delete Device Groups
- Create, Modify and Delete Port Groups
- Configuration and Deployment
- Configure and Deploy Device Properties
- List Payload Definitions.
- Create and View Deployment Schedules
- Syslog and Traps
- Configure the Syslog and Trap ports using the appropriate file
- List Events log records for the IronView database.
- Delete Trap and Syslog Events
- E-mail alerts
- List E-mail Alerts
- Add New Alerts to Alert List
- Redefine how received e-mail Alerts look
- Software and Configuration Images
- List Software and Configuration Images in the IronView Database
- View, Retrieve and Restore Configuration Files
- List Deployment History
- VLAN Management
- List VLANs and all Members of a VLANCreate Port-Based VLANs
- Create Protocol-Based VLANs
- Discover Updates to VLANs
- Use VLAN list to determine VLAN availability
- Using the Address Finder
- Search for MAC and IP Addresses
- Find location of network device with found IP or MAC address
- ACL Manager
- Define the difference between the ACL Service Manager and the ACL Network Manager
- Learn the ACL Service Manager
- Learn the ACL Network Manaager
- Deploy ACLs
- Rearrange ACL Entries
- Create ACL Service and Service Groups
- Create ACL Netwroks and Network Groups
- Monitoring Traffic
- Configure sFlow on a Brocade device
- Enable IronView Data Collection
- Setup Accounting Reports format
- Retrieve Accounting Information from the Accounting Summary and list Accounting Details
- List Port Utilization and Top Resource Users
- Accounting
- Set ports for accounting
- Display accounting statistics for configured ports
- Export accounting statistics
- Control display of accounting statistics
Who should attend
The Target Audience for this course is as follows:
- Customers or Resellers who are experienced with Brocade Products
- Network technicians with installation. Configuration, and Troubleshooting experience with Brocade Products
- Network Administrators responsible for implementing and managing small to large business networks.
- Network support staff that will act as network device installers and first-line support for a local to global sized business environment.