Cisco Certification

Introduction

In this course, you will learn how to design intelligent network services using the Catalyst 6500 Application Control Engine (ACE) Service Module and the Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance.

This course covers all of the key features of the Cisco ACE, including resource virtualization and management, server load balancing (Layer 2-4 and Layer 7), SSL termination and offload, application-layer protocol inspection and fix-ups, and web application optimization features.

Pre-Requisites

• TCP/IP protocol
• HTTP and SSL protocols
• N-Tier application architecture
• Server load-balancing

Who should attend?

• Cisco Channel Partners
• Resellers
• Employees
• Customers

Course Content

• Describe IP application delivery with the ACE module
• Describe the structure and function of the Modular Policy CLI statements used to configure ACE features
• Describe the capabilities the ACE module used to load balance IP-based applications
• Identify the layer-7 processing options used to provide advanced application networking
• Create new contexts and resource classes
• Create class maps and server farms
• Configure an ACE context load balance traffic flows
• Configure an ACE context to monitor real servers
• Implement fix ups and inspection
• •Describe the ACE features that provide IP application security
• •Implement SSL termination
• •Configure network address translations
• •Describe the high availability features of the ACE module
• •Configure an ACE context to perform a variety of functions in an integrated environment
• •Troubleshoot common SLB configuration errors