HP ProCurve switches for engineers

Description

HP ProCurve training course description

A hands on course covering the product specifics of HP 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 HP ProCurve switches.
• Use the command line interface and the web based interface to manage HP ProCurve switches.
• Configure and troubleshoot HP ProCurve switches.
• Perform software upgrades and maintain configurations using TFTP.

HP ProCurve training course details

HP ProCurve training course content

• Introduction

Traditional Ethernet, Hubs, Frames, MAC addresses.
Hands on Building a network with a hub

• What is a switch?

Switches versus hubs, the MAC address table, handling unknown addresses.
Hands on Building a network with HP switches.

• Configuration methods

How to configure a HP switch using: Console port access menus, CLI, telnet, web based access.
Hands on Console access, show commands, using the menus, IP address configuration, telnet.

• Command Line Interface

Operator mode, Manager mode, configuration mode, passwords, online help, CLI commands, basic troubleshooting.
Hands on More show commands, basic troubleshooting, setting a password, displaying status and counters.

• Web based interface

Web access, basic format, Getting started. SSL.
Hands on Web based configuration.

• Port configuration

Common port configuration tasks, port security, port aggregation.
Hands on Configuring ports. Trunking and failover.

• STP configuration

Broadcast storms. What is STP? RSTP. Configuring STP.
Hands on Enabling and disabling STP, investigation failover.

• VLAN configuration

What are VLANS? 802.1Q, tagged/untagged, creating VLANS, applying VLANS. Addressing and VLANs, Layer 3 switches and VLANs.
Hands on Setting up VLANS, setting up tagged ports, Inter VLAN traffic.

• Housekeeping

TFTP, software upgrades, downloading configurations.
Hands on Software upgrade, downloading a configuration.

• SNMP

SNMP configuration, HP OpenView.
Hands on Using SNMP to manage a HP ProCurve switch.

• Basic troubleshooting

Putting it all together. Layer 1 troubleshooting, Layer 2 troubleshooting.

• Miscellaneous exercises

CDP. Logging