Course Description
This advanced 3-day Fast Lane exclusive course prepares you for the key components and procedures you need to know to design, install, configure, manage and troubleshoot the Cisco VXI environment. Additionally in the comprehensive hands-on lab exercises you will install and configure a Virtual Desktop environment on the VXI infrastructure.
Target Audience
This course is intended for:
- Systems Engineers
- Field Engineers
- Network Professionals responsible for deploying VXI/VDI
Upon Course Completion
Situation Briefing:
- Your instructor will give you an overview of the situation—a disaster has occurred, and the entire ISE Deployment needs to be rebuilt from scratch.
- As consultant, you will need to walk through everything from install and initial configuration to verification
Overview of Cisco ISE
- Brief Introduction to Cisco ISE
- Cisco ISE Concepts and Terminology
- ISE Communication Requirements
- Building Blocks of an ISE Configuration
- 802.1X Operational Summary
- Posture and Profiling Operational Summary
Deployment Review
- Review of Student Guide
- Review of Checklists and other resources
- Q & A
- Lab Familiarization
- Connectivity Checks
DAY TWO
- Begin of Day Lab Briefing
- ISE Install – CLI (install, NTP Verification, Repository setup)
- ISE Install – GUI (Certificates, NTP verification, Logging)
- Project Milestone: ISE Configuration Backup and Backup Scheduling
- Initial Switch configuration
- Initial WLC configuration
- Initial ASA Configuration
- NAD Configuration in ISE
- Local user Creation
- Initial Authentication Policy re-creation
- End of Day Q and A
DAY THREE
- Begin of Day Lab Briefing
- Project Milestone: Basic Authentication Policy Testing (Wired, Wireless, VPN)
- Active Directory Integration
- Creating Authentication Policies using Active Directory
- Configure NADs for Endpoint Authentication Access (802.1X and MAB)
- Configure MAB Authentication Policies
- Project Milestone: Authentication Access Testing and Reporting
- Configure Authorization Policies
- Project Milestone: Test Authorization Policies
- Configure NADs for Guest Access
- Configuring Guest Access and custom portals
- End of Day Q and A
DAY FOUR
- Begin of Day Lab Briefing
- Configure Guest Access Policies
- Testing Guest Access (Wired, Wireless)
- Project Milestone: Guest Access Reporting
- ISE Profiling Configuration (Probes and Policies)
- Project Milestone: Testing Profiling (Wired and Wireless)
- End of Day Q and A
DAY FIVE
- Begin of Day Lab Briefing
- ISE Posture Configuration
- Testing Posture
- Project Milestone: Posture Reporting and Troubleshooting
- Project Milestone: Generate Specific ISE Reports for Management
- End of Workshop Wrap-up
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Prerequisites
The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course are as follows:
- CCNA or equivalent level
- Implementing IOS Network Security V1.0 or V2.0 (CCNA-Security) or equivalent level
- Familiarity with Microsoft Windows Active Directory
- Familiarity with Cisco Wireless