Implementing the Cisco Application Control Engine Appliance

This course is designed for systems engineers and network architects who need to design or deploy server load-balancing solutions using the Cisco ACE appliance. The secondary audience for this course is as follows: This course is designed for network operators and server administrators who need to understand the server load-balancing solutions capabilities of the Cisco ACE appliance.

At the end of the course delegates will be able to;-

• Describe IP application delivery with the Cisco ACE appliance
• Describe the configuration tasks necessary to successfully deploy a Cisco ACE appliance
• Describe the structure and function of the Modular Policy CLI Statements
• Used to configure Cisco ACE features
• Describe the methods used to manage the Cisco ACE appliance
• Describe the Cisco ACE features that provide IP application-based security on the Cisco ACE appliance
• Describe the capabilities and configuration of the Cisco ACE features used to provide load balancing of IP-based applications
• Describe the health monitoring capabilities of the Cisco ACE appliance
• Identify the Layer 7 processing options used to provide advanced application networking
• Describe the Cisco ACE support for SSL protocol processing
• Describe the Cisco ACE web application acceleration, optimization, and compression features
• Describe the high-availability features of the Cisco ACE appliance, which are used to provide reliable application networking services
• Describe a methodology used to design and configure multiple Cisco ACE features
  

Course Introduction
Introducing the Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance

• IP Protocol Stack Review
• IP Application Review
• Web Technology Overview
• Introducing the Cisco ACE

Deploying Cisco ACE

• Connecting Cisco ACE to the Network
• Cisco ACE Installation Procedure
• Cisco ACE Appliance GUI
• Network Topologies
• Virtualization
• Resource Management
• Authorizing Management Users
• Configuring Interfaces

Modular Policy CLI

• Class Maps
• Policy Maps
• Applying Policy Maps

Managing the Cisco ACE Appliance

• Permitting Management Traffic
• SNMP Manageabilit

Security Features

• IP Access Control Lists
• TCP/IP Fragmentation/Reassembly
• TCP/IP Normalization
• Network Address Translation

Layer 4 Load Balancing

• Load-Balancing Concepts
• Load-Balancing Algorithms
• Configuring Layer 4 Load Balancing

Health Monitoring

• Health Monitoring Overview
• Active Health Probes
• HTTP Error Code Monitoring
  Using TCL Scripting

Layer 7 Protocol Processing

• Configuring HTTP Layer 7 Load Balancing
• Persistent and Pipelined HTTP Extensions
• Server Reuse
• Session Persistence
• Protocol Inspection
• HTTP Inspection
• FTP Protocol Processing
• Other Inspected Protocols

Processing Secure Connections

• Digital Encryption Technologies
• SSL Service Options
• Configuring a Public Key Infrastructure
• Configuring SSL Proxy Services

Deploying Application Acceleration and Optimization

• Web Application Acceleration Architecture
• FlashForward
• Delta Optimization
• Smart Redirect
• Fast Redirect
• FlashConnect
• Just-in-Time Object Acceleration
• Adaptive Dynamic Cache
• Compression Overview

High Availability

• Redundancy
• Object Tracking
• Failover
• State Replication
• Fault-Tolerance Configuration
  Displaying Fault-Tolerance Information

Integrating Multiple Features

• Analyzing Network Requirements
• Designing Cisco ACE Contexts
• Designing Cisco ACE Features
• Configuring Multiple Integrated Features