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Course Topics
Introduction
- Extreme Management Center (XMC) Server requirements and licensing
- XMC Client Server architecture
- Accessing and navigating XMC including help and search tools
- Application categorisation within XMC
Administration
- Managing user’s authorization within XMC using groups
- Administrative options to customize and define XMCs operational environment
- Administration tools for basic tasks including performing backups, determining
- XMC system resource utilization, and diagnostics
- XMC licensing management
Configuration Management
- Mechanisms and protocols used by XMC
- Automatic discovery of devices and using site templates and scripts
- Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) to automate configuration
- Manually add devices and change polling parameters
- Utilizing device group categories and port/element groups
Management Tools
- MIBs to manage devices
- Pre-configured FlexViews to customize and create your own FlexViews
- Use scripts to deploy immediately or via scheduling
Maps
- Wired and wireless network maps
- Network details identifying MLAG, EAPS etc. configuration
- Wireless network maps to determine:
- Signal strength using Heat maps
- 2.4 or 5 Gig coverage
- Client Data Rates
Inventory Management
- Upload device firmware and upgrade devices
- Backup and upload network device configurations
- Compare Device Configurations
- Manage device inventory within XMC using asset tracking,
- inventory events and report
Accounting Management
- Device and interface statistics collection
- Network interrogation to see:
- Number of flows for each application
- Are they a threat to your network
- Application Analytics and application response time and network response time
- Reports for network and performance
- Application Analytics
- Extreme Application Analytics Deployment modeland configuration
- Interface deployment modes for collecting data
- Best Practices for Port Mirroring, GRE tunnels and Traffic Domains.
- Integration of XMC, Analytics, Extreme Control and Wireless features to provide network utilization and client details
Fault Management
- Maps to locate devices, clients, threats
- Compass as a search tool
- PortView
- FlexViews
- Device and system alarms
Performance Management
- Alarms and thresholds for system and network devices
- Response times of Applications
- For the application or for individual clients
- Different flows
Reporting
- Customizing your Dashboard
- Pre-defined reports and creating custom reports
- Report Designer for report scheduling
- Scheduler to run reports and scripts
- Applications and Flows to control traffic
Security Management
- Policy Enabled Networks
- What Policy is
- Role based networks
- Policy and QoS configuration using XMC
Domains
- Save and import Policy domains
- Traffic mirroring with Policy
- Wireshark with Policy
- Deploying policy via single or multiple domains
- Network monitoring for rule hits using XMC
- End-System Visibility
- Managing end user network access with Extreme
Access Control
- Authentication types supported
- Managing and tracking end users on the network
- Managing devices through Policy or RFC3580
- Refine network access using rules and profiles
- Related Courses
- Recommended Next Course(s) : Extreme Policy, Extreme Access Control