ACEAP is a 4-day, instructor-led, lecture / lab course that teaches you how to design, deploy, and optimize intelligent network services using the Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) Appliance. This course covers all of the key features of the ACE Appliance 1.0, including resource virtualization and management, server load balancing (Layer 2-4 and Layer 7), SSL termination and offload, and security features like application-layer inspection and fixups
Prerequisites
To fully benefit from this course, it is recommended that you have the following prerequisite skills and knowledge:
- TCP / IP protocol
- HTTP and SSL protocols
- N-tier application architecture
- Server load-balancing
Associated Certifications
Who Should Attend
This course is intended for the following audience:
- Channel Partner / Reseller
- Customer
- Employee
Number of Days
4 Days instructor-led classroom training. (Approx. 7 hours each day.)
Course Objectives
After completing this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe IP application delivery with the ACE appliance.
- Describe the structure and function of the Appliance Policy CLI statements used to configure ACE features.
- Describe the capabilities the ACE appliance 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 serverfarms.
- Configure an ACE context load balance traffic flows.
- Configure an ACE context to monitor real servers.
- Implement fixups 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 appliance.
- Configure an ACE context to perform a variety functions in an integrated environment.
- Troubleshoot common SLB configuration errors.
Course Outline
- Module 1: Implementing the Cisco ACE application Control Engine Appliance
- Module 2: Introducing the Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance
- Module 3: Deploying Cisco ACE
- Module 4: Modular Policy CLI
- Module 5: Managing the Cisco ACE Appliance
- Module 6: Security Features
- Module 7: Load Balancing
- Module 8: Health Monitoring
- Module 9: Layer 7 Protocol Processing
- Module 10: Processing Secure Connections
- Module 11: Deploying Application Acceleration and Optimization
- Module 12: High Availability
- Module 13: Integrating Multiple Features
