iMC Essentials for Network Administrators

• Network engineers and administrators
• Network architects and consultants

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Describe IMC’s software structure HL048S 5 Days ILT, VILT View now View now
• Describe the protocols IMC uses to monitor and manage devices
• Discover devices automatically and add devices manually
• View the managed devices in multiple ways
• Manage device configurations and firmware
• Automate device configuration changes
• Monitor the network’s performance
• Discover the new Desktop User Interface
• Discover the Quick Service Process
• Discover and isolate faults in your environment
• Make configuration changes to your computing environment
• Authenticate users with 802.1X and UAM
• Manage the performance of your environment
• Increase the security of your environment

Module 1: Compliance and Intelligent Policy Center

• Create a policy and have IMC check for a policy violation on managed devices
• Have IMC perform an additional action based on a generated alert.

Module 2: ACL Management

• ACL assistant feature
• Managing ACL templates
• Managing ACL resources
• Managing device ACL configurations
• Deploying ACLs using IMC’s ACL deployment wizard

Module 3: Virtualization Management

• An introduction to virtualization
• Adding virtual hosts to IMC
• Using Virtual Resource Manager (VRM)
• An introduction to managing virtual devices in VRM

Module 4: Performance Management

• Describe the types of performance metrics that a network administrator can monitor using IMC
• Analyze the performance characteristics being tracked by IMC
• View, interpret, and configure performance widgets in the IMC home window
• Describe the difference between global index settings and individual device monitoring settings
• Configure individual device monitoring settings • Use topology maps to access device performance metrics
• Configure topology maps to display specific performance metrics
• Describe the difference between global index data and real-time monitoring data
• Configure real-time performance data

Module 5: Network Traffic Analyzer (NTA)

• Understanding traffic monitoring and NTA’s capabilities
• Configuring networking devices for NTA
• Configuring NTA for traffic analysis and auditing
• Using host session monitoring
• Setting up and using interface monitoring
• Setting up NTA widgets on the home window
• Performing traffic log audits

Module 6: Zero Touch Provisioning

• Create configuration template for the device final configuration
• Create configuration template for the device ZTP initial configuration
• Create a Auto Deployment Plan and have IMC deploy Zero Touch Provision
• IMC will automatically add the new device.

Learners should have networking experience to get the most from this training course.