Course Details
Overview
This course provides detailed instruction on how to configure and monitor the Cisco® ASR 5000 to function as an enhanced wireless access gateway in a 3G Wi-Fi offload network environment.
Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should have a thorough understanding of the following aspects of the platform:
- Performing basic service configuration and monitoring of the eWAG
- Monitoring the system for proper subscriber session establishment
- Basic debugging of initial attachment failure
- At the completion of this course, all participants receive a certificate of completion.
Outline
- Day 1: Morning Session
- Discussion: Course Objectives and Schedule
- Lesson 1: Getting Started with 3G Wi-Fi Offload
- Client versus clientless devices
- Trusted versus untrusted devices
- eWAG and Wi-Fi infrastructure
- Role of wireless LAN controller (WLC)
- SSIDs and VLANs
- EAP-based WLAN authentication
- Portal-based WLAN authentication
- eWAG session setup
- Handoffs
- Lesson 2: Hardware Overview of the ASR 5000
- Viewing card status
- Viewing port status
- Basics of link aggregation
- LUNCH
- Day 1: Afternoon Session
- Lesson 3: Software Overview of the ASR 5000
- Software tasks on eWAG
- Session recovery basics
- Software licensing
- System file system management
- Lesson 3: Software Overview of the ASR 5000
- Lesson 4: Terminology
- Logical interfaces
- Bindings
- Services
- APNs
- AAA Server Groups
- Day 2: Morning Session
- Review of Day One, Question-and-Answer Session
- Lesson 5: Configuring the ASR 5000 as an Evolved Wireless Access Gateway
- GPRS tunnel (GTP) interface
- IP services gateway (IPSG) config
- GGSN service
- IP pools
- APN config
- Day 2: Afternoon Session
- Lab: Configuring an eWAG
- Tracing user sessions
- Day 3: Morning Session
- Review of Day Two, Question-and-Answer Session
- Lesson 6: Monitoring and Troubleshooting eWAG Operation
- Viewing subscriber sessions
- Tracing subscriber sessions
- Role of DNS
- Protocol monitor
- Obtaining IPSG information and statistics
- Examining the GTPC service
- Day 3: Afternoon Session
- Lesson 7: Logging on the ASR 5000
- Viewing system logs
- Configuring runtime logging
- Redirecting logging output
- Logging a subscriber session
- Configuring a syslog server
- Crash logging
- Lesson 8: Threshold Crossing Alarms (TCAs)
- Alert versus alarm model
- Displaying threshold crossing alarm settings
- Configuring threshold crossing alarms
- Viewing alarms that have fired
- Lesson 7: Logging on the ASR 5000
Target Audience
This course is designed for participants from any of the following disciplines who are responsible for the planning, configuration, and management of the ASR 5000:
- Network engineering
- Network consulting
- Customer support
- Field engineering
Pre-Requisites
Following are the prerequisites for this course:
- Participants must also have a thorough understanding of IP routing, networking protocols, and a basic working knowledge of applicable W-Fi network operation.
Participant Material Requirements
Participants are required to bring the following materials to this training course:
- Laptop or notebook computer with:
- Terminal emulation program (such as PuTTY, available at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) capable of Telnet or SSH
- 10/100BASE-T Ethernet interface