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Implementing the Cisco ACE Appliance (ACEAP) v1.0 4 days Lecture/lab
Course outline

Lesson 1: Introducing ACE

  • IP Protocol Stack Review
  • IP Application Review
  • Introducing ACE

Lesson 2: Deploying ACE

  • Connecting ACE to the Network
  • 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 ACE appliance

  • Permitting Management Traffic
  • SNMP Manageability
  • GUI

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
  • HTTP Error Code Monitoring
  • Using TCL Scripting

Lesson 8: Layer 7 Protocol Processing

  • HTTP Layer 7 Load Balancing
  • Persistent/Pipelined HTTP Extensions
  • HTTP Modifications
  • Session Persistence
  • HTTP Inspection
  • FTP Protocol Processing
  • 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

  • FlashForward
  • DeltaOptimization
  • SmartRedirect
  • FastRedirect
  • FlashConnect
  • J-I-T Object Acceleration
  • Adaptive Dynamic Cache
  • AppXtender
  • AppScope
  • AppScreen

Lesson 11: High Availability

  • Redundancy
  • Object Tracking
  • Failover
  • State Replication
  • Displaying Fault Tolerance Information

Lesson 12: Integrating Multiple Features

  • Analyzing Network Requirements
  • Designing ACE Contexts
  • Designing ACE features
  • Configuring Multiple Integrated Features
Course labs

Lab 1: Implementing Virtualization
Lab 2: Using Network Address Translation
Lab 3: Configuring Server Load Balancing
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: Integrate Application Acceleration and Optimization Features Into the Load Balancing Design
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


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