System Administration 4.1 (SA) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

  • Initial ACOS Configuration
    • Base system configuration through the CLI and GUI
    • Backup and restore
    • System upgrade
    • Configuration profiles
  • Centralized Configuration Management: aVCS
    • Clustering devices into a centralized chassis
    • aVCS topology: vMaster and vBlade devices
    • vMaster election and maintenance
    • Staggered aVCS upgrade
  • High Availability: VRRP-A
    • Active-Standby mode and failover
    • N+M deployments
    • Active device selection
  • Application Delivery Partitions (ADP)
    • Layer 3 Virtualization Partitions (L3V)
    • Shared and private partitions
    • Public and private objects
    • Recognize SmartConsole features, functions and tools.
  • Role-based Administration
    • Admin account creation through the CLI and GUI
    • Assigning privileges, passwords, and access rights
    • Roles: predefined and user-defined
    • Session management
  • Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting.
    • Using AAA servers to manage device and command access
    • Account and command tracking
  • Control Plane Logging
    • ACOS logging
    • External logging and emailing events
    • Events and thresholds
    • Understand how traffic inspection takes place in a unified Security Policy
  • SNMP
    • Monitoring ACOS devices remotely
    • A10 MIBs
    • ConfiguringTraps
    • OID discovery
  • aXAPI Overview
    • aXAPI architecture and session flow
    • API methods
    • Understand the Check Point policy layer concept