3.1 – Processes and Procedures
Network Documentation
There’s never enough documentation. In this video, you’ll learn about network maps, asset management, site surveys, and more.
Life Cycle Management
Each component on the network has a limited life span. In this video, you’ll learn about bug fixes, change control, decommissioning, and more.
Configuration Management
The configuration of a device can be the most important part of the system. In this video, you’ll learn about production configurations, backup configurations, and baseline configs.
3.2 – Network Monitoring
SNMP
The Simple Network Management Protocol is widely used for monitoring and configurations. In this video, you’ll learn about SNMP versions, SNMP traps, and the authentication process used by SNMP.
Logs and Monitoring
The network never sleeps. In this video, you’ll learn how to monitor the network using flow data, protocol analysis, Syslog, SEIMs, and more.
Network Solutions
There are many different methods for managing the network. In this video, you’ll learn about network discovery, traffic analysis, availability monitoring, and more.
3.3 – Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery
It’s important to plan for any contingency. In this video, you’ll learn how to measure outages, options for site resiliency, and how to prepare and test for a disaster scenario.
Network Redundancy
Keeping systems running is an important part of any network design. In this video, you’ll learn about active-active configurations and active-passive configurations.
3.4 – IP Services
DHCP
We rely on the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol to automatically assign addresses to our network devices. In this video, you’ll learn about the DHCP process and how DHCP relay can be used to design a more efficient DHCP process.
Configuring DHCP
Configuring a DHCP server requires a number of different settings. In this video, you’ll learn about DHCP pool, address reservations, DHCP options, the lease process, and more.
IPv6 and SLAAC
Automatic addressing is part of the IPv6 standard. In this video, you’ll learn about SLAAC, Network Discovery Protocol (NDP), and automatic addressing of IPv6 devices.
An Overview of DNS
Domain Name Services are a critical part of any network. In this video, you’ll learn about DNS, local name resolution, forward and reverse lookups, recursive queries, and securing DNS.
DNS Records
DNS configurations require a number of different record types. In this video, you’ll learn about DNS records for addresses, canonical names, mail services, and more.
Time Protocols
Time is an important metric for most networks. In this video, you’ll learn about the Network Time Protocol (NTP), Network Time Security (NTS), and Precision Time Protocol (PTP).
3.5 – Network Access
VPNs
Virtual Private Networks allow us to communicate securely over public networks. In this video, you’ll learn about client-to-site VPNs, clientless VPNs, and compare full VPN tunnels and split tunnels.
Remote Access
Many network administrators are configuring switches and routers from a remote location. In this video, you’ll learn about SSH, API integration, consoles, jump boxes, and in-band and out-of-band management.