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Cisco ACE Boot Camp (ACEBC) v3.1 4 days Lecture/lab
Course outline

Module 1: Data Center Application Services Overview

Lesson 1: IP-Based Data Center Applications

  • IP Protocol Stack Review
  • IP Application Review
  • Web Technology Overview

Lesson 2: Introducing ACE Family Solutions

  • Multi-Tier Applications
  • Intra-Datacenter Redundancy
  • Application Delivery Products

Lesson 3: Deploying the ACE Appliance and Service Module

  • Connecting ACE to the Network
  • Network Topologies
  • ACE 4710 Installation Procedure
  • ACE Appliance GUI
  • Virtualization
  • Resource Management
  • Role Based Access Control
  • Configuring Interfaces
  • Configuring Management

Module 2: Implementing Server Load Balancing

Lesson 1: Modular Policy CLI

  • Class Maps
  • Policy Maps
  • Applying Policy Maps

Lesson 2: Managing the ACE Appliance

  • Permitting Management Traffic
  • SNMP Manageability
  • GUI Management

Lesson 3: Security Features

  • IP Access Control Lists
  • ACL Object Groups
  • TCP/IP Fragmentation/Reassembly
  • TCP/IP Normalization
  • SYN Cookies
  • Network Address Translation

Lesson 4: Layer 4 Load Balancing

  • Load-Balancing Concepts
  • Load-Balancing Algorithms
  • Configuring Layer 4 Load Balancing
  • Traffic Rate Limiting
  • Firewall Load-Balancing

Lesson 5: Health Monitoring

  • Health Monitoring Overview
  • Active Health Probes
  • HTTP Error Code Monitoring
  • Using TCL Scripting
  • Route Health Injection
  • Backup Servers/Server Farms
  • KAL-AP Integration

Lesson 6: Layer 7 Protocol Processing

  • HTTP Layer 7 Load Balancing
  • Persistent/Pipelined HTTP Extensions
  • Server Reuse
  • HTTP Modifications
  • Session Persistance
  • HTTP Inspection
  • FTP Protocol Processing
  • Other Inspected Protocols

Lesson 7: Processing Secure Connections

  • Digital Encryption Technologies
  • SSL Service Options
  • Configuring a Public-Key Infrastructure
  • Configuring SSL Proxy Services
  • SSL Session Reuse
  • SSL Queue Delay

Lesson 8: Web Application Acceleration Overview

  • Web Application Performance Factors
  • Web Application Acceleration Architecture
  • FlashForward
  • DeltaOptimization
  • Single-Request Optimizations
  • Compression Overview
  • Configuring Compression

Lesson 9: High Availability

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

Lesson 10: Integrating Multiple Features

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

Appendix A: ANM SLB Configuration

Appendix B: Troubleshooting Case Study 1

Appendix C: Troubleshooting Case Study 2

Course labs

Lab 1: Implementing Virtualization
Lab 2: Using NAT
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


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