We strongly recommend that students bring their own PC to act as the console during labs. Recommended Personal hardware:

• Laptop Personal Computer with W95 or higher
• Ethernet NIC card
• CD Drive
• Serial Interface (DB-9 Connector)
• Netscape 6.1 or better or Internet Explorer 5.5 or better

Course Content

The TRNG-0503 course is an in-depth study of network management Using IronView Network Manager as it relates to the Foundry Networks products. The course focuses mainly on the IronView product. It covers the theory of operations, configuration, troubleshooting and network analysis using Foundry's products. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to install and configure IronView, configure Foundry devices, monitor a given network, and troubleshoot network problem using IronView as an analysis tool.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

• Discover Foundry network devices
• Retrieve and download device images
• Create, download, and apply access control lists
• Create VLANs
• Use sFlow to monitor and retrieve accounting statistics from Foundry devices
• Monitor changes to Foundry network devices
• Store and retrieve network events
• Setup Foundry device and ports for mass download of configurations.
• Restore configurations

Course Outline
IronView Fundamentals and Installation

• Describe the basic capabilities of IronView and the Subjects to be Covered in the Class
• Describe components of IronView - server, clients, managers
• List Installation Requirements
• List the Steps to Install IronView Network Management
• Describe use of the configuration. properties file.
• Edit the configuration. properties file
• Backup and Restore IronView Network Manager
• Backup and restore IronView database.db
• Connect Client to Server

   Managing Roles

• Describe what a role is
• Implement IronView Roles
• Create Roles
• Create User Accounts

   Discover

• Configure and Enable Discovery
• List Discovered Devices
• List what subnets and IP address have been discovered

   Reports

• View reports
• Use the reports to retrieve device information
• Use the reports for configuration
• Export reports to a spread sheet

   Managing Devices, Ports, Password, and the Tool Bar

• Describe Port Group Trees
• Update the IronView Network Manager Database to Reflect Modified Device Configurations
• Modify Device Passwords and Community Strings
• Create, Modify and Delete Device Groups
• Create, Modify and Delete Port Groups

   Configuration and Deployment

• Configure and Deploy Device Properties
• List Payload Definitions.
• Create and View Deployment Schedules

   Syslog and Traps

• Configure the Syslog and Trap ports using the appropriate file
• List Events log records for the IronView database.
• Delete Trap and Syslog Events

   E-mail alerts

• List E-mail Alerts
• Add New Alerts to Alert List
• Redefine how received e-mail Alerts look

   Software and Configuration Images

• List Software and Configuration Images in the IronView Database
• View, Retrieve and Restore Configuration Files
• List Deployment History

   VLAN Management

• List VLANs and all Members of a VLANCreate Port-Based VLANs
• Create Protocol-Based VLANs
• Discover Updates to VLANs
• Use VLAN list to determine VLAN availability

   Using the Address Finder

• Search for MAC and IP Addresses
• Find location of network device with found IP or MAC address

   ACL Manager

• Define the difference between the ACL Service Manager and the ACL Network Manager
• Learn the ACL Service Manager
• Learn the ACL Network Manaager
• Deploy ACLs
• Rearrange ACL Entries
• Create ACL Service and Service Groups
• Create ACL Netwroks and Network Groups

   Monitoring Traffic

• Configure sFlow on a Foundry device
• Enable IronView Data Collection
• Setup Accounting Reports format
• Retrieve Accounting Information from the Accounting Summary and list Accounting Details
• List Port Utilization and Top Resource Users

   Accounting

• Set ports for accounting
• Display accounting statistics for configured ports
• Export accounting statistics
• Control display of accounting statistics

Who should attend
The Target Audience for this course is as follows:

• Customers or Resellers who are experienced with Foundry Networks Products
• Network technicians with installation. Configuration, and Troubleshooting experience with Foundry Products
• Network Administrators responsible for implementing and managing small to large business networks.
• Network support staff that will act as network device installers and first-line support for a local to global sized business environment.