ECS Extreme Management Center (XMC) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

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