Description
The Cisco WAN Automation Engine Implementation (WAEIMPL) v1.0 is a 4-day instructor-led course that introduces learners to the basic knowledge needed to plan, deploy, configure and maintain the Cisco WAE solution. Extensive hands-on labs provide learners with the opportunity to gain the necessary skills to install and maintain the Cisco WAE systems.
Objectives
Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:
- Learn the system architecture of Cisco WAE and WAE network abstraction
- Plan and deploy Cisco WAE Planning components, including Collector, WAE Design Archive and WAE Live
- Plan and deploy Cisco WAE Automation components including WAE Core and WAE OSC, as well as learn basics of WAE APIs
- Learn how to deploy changes to the network using Cisco WAE and OSC, as well as determine how to integrate WAE with Cisco NSO
- Learn how to use Cisco WAE Design application to solve problems and achieve business goals
Outline
The course contains these components:
- WAE Introduction and Architecture Overview
- Introduction to WAE
- WAE Architecture and Design
- WAE Server and Collector Implementation
- Planning the Deployment
- WAE Deployment
- Overview of the Collection Process
- Embedded Web Server
- Configuring WAE Collector
- Lab: Virtual Learning Lab – Getting Started
- Lab: WAE Collector Configuration
- Lab: Augmented Collection Configuration
- Configuring WAE Core Server
- Lab: Configuring WAE Core
- WAE Design for Network Engineers
- Getting Started With WAE Design
- Lab: Getting Started with WAE Design
- Working with Layouts
- Lab: Working with Layouts
- Describing Traffic with Demands
- Lab: Describing Traffic with Demands
- Failures and Simulation Analysis
- Lab: Failures and Simulation Analysis
- WAE Design Traffic Engineering (IGP)
- Engineering Traffic using Metrics
- Lab: Engineering Traffic using Metrics
- Engineering Traffic using RSVP-TE
- Lab: Modeling MPLS RSVP-TE LSPs
- WAE Live Deployment
- The Basic Components of WAE Live
- WAE Live Configuration
- Templates for Visual Elements Control
- Lab: Configuring WAE Live
- WAE Live Features
- WAE Live Map
- WAE Live Explore
- Lab: WAE Live Explore and Map
- WAE Live Analytics
- Lab: WAE Live Analytics
- WAE Live Inventory
- Lab: Configuring WAE Live Inventory
- WAE Live Administration
- WAE Maintenance and Troubleshooting
- WAE Maintenance
- Lab: WAE Backup
- WAE Troubleshooting
Prerequisite Knowledge
The knowledge and skills that a learner should possess before attending this course are as follows:
- Knowledge of general networking and routing concepts
- Basic knowledge of routing protocols (OSPF, IS-IS, BGP)
- Understanding of MPLS and TE technologies
- Basic knowledge of Linux server operation and Linux tools
- Knowledge of accessing, configuring and managing the network devices
- Basic understanding of network automation and SDN concepts