Course Details
Overview
The Configuring and Operating Cisco EPN Manager (EPNM100) v3.0 course shows you how to install, provision, monitor, and maintain a packet and optical multilayer network using Cisco® Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) Manager. This course also covers configuration and compliance management, device configuration, and service management.
The Cisco EPN Manager is a simplified and cost-effective solution for device operation, administration, network provisioning, and network assurance management for today’s converging packet and optical multilayer networks. It enables end-to-end lifecycle management across core, edge, aggregation, and access networks.
Objectives
After taking this course, you should be able to:
- Recognize the Cisco EPN Manager’s features
- Access Cisco EPN Manager and understand user accounts (roles, virtual domains)
- Navigate the Cisco EPN Manager’s user interface
- View the network inventory
- Monitor health and performance
- Manage alarms and events
- Generate reports
- Recognize the system requirements for Cisco EPN Manager, and procedures for new installations, upgrades, and high availability
- Manage to license
- Configure the initial server settings and prepare the server for day-1 operations
- Establish initial device inventory and virtual domains
- Establish user accounts and their role-based access to EPN Manager’s features and devices
- Configure monitoring policies and alarm and event preferences
- Manage backup and restore data retention and purging, and software updates
- Tune and monitor a server’s performance
- Archive, view, compare and restore configuration files
- Update and manage software images
- Perform compliance audits
- Configure devices using templates
- Provision network services
- Archive and restore TL1 database files
- Update and manage optical devices’ software images
- Configure optical devices using the Detailed Device View
- Provision optical network services
Outline
- Introduction
- Service Provider Market Trends
- Cisco EPN Manager Overview
- Getting Started
- Accessing Cisco EPN Manager
- Lesson Summary for “Accessing Cisco EPN Manager”
- Exploring the GUI
- Populating the Inventory
- Network Views
- Viewing Device Inventory and Device Details
- Viewing the Topology
- Network Monitoring
- Monitoring Dashboards
- Monitoring Policies Overview
- Exploring Alarms and Events
- Taking Action on Alarms and Events
- Exploring Reports
- Managing Reports
- System Administration
- Pre-Installation Activities
- Installing Cisco EPN Manager
- Installing High Availability
- Post-Installation Activities
- Performing Server Setup Tasks
- Customizing Alarm and Event Preferences
- Managing Groups and Virtual Domains
- Managing User Accounts
- Maintenance
- Backup and Restore
- Software Updates
- Data Retention and Purging
- Monitor and Tune Cisco EPN Manager
- Configuration Management
- Setting Up Configuration Management
- Using Configuration Management
- Software Image Management
- Software Image Management Basics
- Deploying Software Images
- Device Configuration
- Cisco EPN Manager Configuration Methods
- Configuring Devices by Using Templates
- Creating Custom Templates
- Compliance Management
- Compliance Prerequisites
- Compliance Policies
- Compliance Audit and Fix Jobs
- Carrier Ethernet Service Management
- Examining Provisioning Features
- Creating Customers and Custom Profiles
- Provisioning a Carrier Ethernet Service
- Verifying Services
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting Services
- Optical Devices, Circuits, and Services
- Exploring Optical Provisioning Features
- Setting Up Configuration Management
- Using Configuration Management
- Configuring Optical Devices with Detailed Device View
- Creating Customers and Custom Profiles
- Provisioning a Service
- Assuring Services
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting Services
Target Audience
- Network operators
- Network administrators
- Optical network administrators
- System administrators
- System integrators and professional services
- Cisco integrators and partners
Pre-Requisites
To benefit fully from this course, you should have the following knowledge and skills:
- Network management experience (polling, syslogs, IP addressing, ports, device access, credentials, Simple Network Management Protocol [SNMP], Secure Shell [SSH])
- Basic understanding of network and device performance statistics
- Basic understanding of network alarms and events
- Experience with manually configuring network devices and provisioning services using a device’s Command-Line Interface (CLI)
- VMware experience with the installation of OVA files on virtual machines and/or ISO software on bare-metal machines
- Experience with configuring optical network devices and provisioning optical circuits using either TL1 (CLI) or the Cisco Transport Controller application