Course Overview
Participants in this training learn the skills required to implement, use, and maintain the Network Automation application. This training is useful for persons responsible for supporting and administering the implementations of Network Automation. This training is useful for persons wishing to integrate NA with third-party applications and those wanting to create custom device drivers.
Who should attend
- Network Management Tools Support
- Application Developers
- Network Automation Consultants
Prerequisites
To be successful in this course, you should have the following prerequisites or knowledge.
Java/Perl programming Skills Basic SQL experience NA skills equivalent to the Network Automation 10.x Essentials (NA120) class
The following are desirable but not essential:
- NNM Administration experience
- Unix/Linux Administration experience
- OO experience
Course Objectives
- Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Implement multi-server Network Automation (NA) configuration to achieve resilience and scalability
- Use the API/Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) interfaces to achieve rich integrations with third party or in house software
- Implement integration to Network Node Manager i (NNMi) and Operations Orchestration
- Use Lightweight Directory Access Protocol and Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACCS) as NA external authentication
- Create reports extracting information from the NA database directly or using the APIs
- Build custom device drivers
- Maximize the performance of an NA server and perform in-depth diagnostics and troubleshooting
Course Content
- Introduction and Overview
- Distributed NA Implementation
- NA API
- External Authentication
- Custom Reporting
- NNMi and OO Integration
- Troubleshooting
- Driver Development