IronView Network Management

Course Overview

The course is an in-depth study of network management using IronView Network Manager as it relates to the Foundry Networks products i.e. course focuses mainly on the IronView product and covers the theory of operations, configuration, troubleshooting and network analysis using Foundry's products. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to install and configure IronView, configure Foundry devices, monitor a given network, and troubleshoot network problem using IronView as an analysis tool.

Audience

The Target Audience for this course is as follows:

• Network technicians with installation, configuration, and troubleshooting experience with Foundry Products
• Network Administrators responsible for implementing and managing small to large business networks
• Network support staff that will act as network device installers and first-line support for a local to global sized business environment.

Skills Gained

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

• Discover Foundry network devices
• Retrieve and download device images
• Create, download, and apply access control lists
• Create VLANs
• Use sFlow to monitor and retrieve accounting statistics from Foundry devices
• Monitor changes to Foundry network devices
• Store and retrieve network events
• Set-up Foundry device and ports for mass download of configurations.
• Restore configurations

Prerequisites

To fully benefit from this course you should have attended the Introduction to Foundry Configuration course (FOU0001). We recommend that you have previous exposure to general network management issues in a Foundry Networks environment. A working knowledge of Foundry Networks' CLI is a must.

Course Outline

IronView Fundamentals and Installation

• Describe the basic capabilities of IronView and the Subjects to be Covered in the Class
• Describe components of IronView - server, clients, managers
• List Installation Requirements
• List the Steps to Install IronView Network Management
• Describe use of the configuration. properties file.
• Edit the configuration. properties file
• Backup and Restore IronView Network Manager
• Backup and restore IronView database.db
• Connect Client to Server
• Managing Roles
• Describe what a role is
• Implement IronView Roles
• Create Roles
• Create User Accounts
• Discover
• Configure and Enable Discovery
• List Discovered Devices
• List what subnets and IP address have been discovered
• Reports
• View reports
• Use the reports to retrieve device information
• Use the reports for configuration
• Export reports to a spread sheet
• Managing Devices, Ports, Password, and the Tool Bar
• Describe Port Group Trees
• Update the IronView Network Manager Database to Reflect Modified Device Configurations
• Modify Device Passwords and Community Strings
• Create, Modify and Delete Device Groups
• Configuration and Deployment
• Configure and Deploy Device Properties
• List Payload Definitions.
• Create and View Deployment Schedules
• Syslog and Traps
• Configure the Syslog and Trap ports using the appropriate file
• List Events log records for the IronView database.
• Delete Trap and Syslog Events