Concise Cisco switching

Description

Concise Cisco switches course description

A hands on course covering the product specifics of Cisco switches. Installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting are all covered in a practical oriented way. VLANs often take up a large part of the course. The course covers all interfaces but concentrates on using the command line interface. Delegates are, however, free to use the web based interface in all exercises.

What will you learn

• Install Cisco switches.
• Use the command line interface and the web based interface to manage Cisco switches.
• Configure and troubleshoot Cisco switches.
• Perform software upgrades and maintain configurations using TFTP.

Concise Cisco switches course details

Concise Cisco switches course content

• Ethernet review

Single segment Ethernet, CSMA/CD, Broadcast domains, collision domains. Hubs, Extending the LAN.
Hands on Hub based Ethernet.

• Cisco switches

What are switches, frame forwarding and filtering, the forwarding database.
Hands on Switched based Ethernet.

• Configuring Cisco switches

Accessing the switch, installing the switch, The CLI, connecting PCs using the switch.
Hands on Configuring Cisco switches.

• The command line interface

User and privilege modes, online help, show, basic troubleshooting. The configuration editor, Global, major and sub commands, enable, secret and other passwords.
Hands on Simple troubleshooting using the CLI.

• Port configuration

Speed, duplex, security, trunking.
Hands on Port trunking.

• Spanning Tree Protocol

Spanning Tree, Loops, effect, root bridges, bridge port states, STP reconfiguration. RSTP and variants.
Hands on STP.

• VLANS

What are VLANs, configuring VLANs, access ports and trunks, 802.1Q, inter VLAN routing.
Hands on Access ports, trunks, layer 3 switching.

• Housekeeping

Configuration management, software management, password recovery.
Hands on TFTP.

• Managing interconnection devices

SNMP, RMON, RMON II.

• Troubleshooting

LEDs, CDP, logging, Layer 1, layer 2, layer 3.
Hands on Fixing things.