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Implementing CiscoWorks for Enterprise LAN/WAN Management (CWENT) 2.5 Expert Encore

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number

Overview/Description
The CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution bundle contains the fundamental, and therefore critical, CiscoWorks applications for properly managing your Cisco equipment at a very high level of efficiency and effectiveness. While these applications are fundamental in nature, it can be very difficult to properly configure CiscoWorks Common Services and Resource Manager Essentials in order to manage your network. This course solves this problem head on. Students of this course are provided the step-by-step instructions and hands-on practice that is required to master this extremely complex set of products.

Target Audience
This course was designed for network administrators who are responsible for implementing and troubleshooting large-scale CiscoWorks deployments.

Prerequisites
The CWENT course focuses on the technology required for enabling WAN solutions. To fully benefit from this course, the student must be familiar with general networking concepts and have Cisco router operation and configuration experience.

Skills
This course covers the following hardware and software/operating system versions

All versions of the Cisco IOS
CiscoWorks LMS
Most major Cisco hardware platforms

Outline
Implementing CiscoWorks for Enterprise LAN/WAN Management (CWENT) 2.5

Module 1: Describing Network Management Fundamentals
- Defining Network Management
- Exploring the Network Management Process

Module 2: Introducing CiscoWorks
- Describing CiscoWorks Product Bundles
- Providing an Overview to CiscoWorks Applications

Module 3: Jump-Starting CiscoWorks
- Starting to Use CiscoWorks
- Common Services: Enabling CiscoWorks Security and Multi-Server Trust
- Managing the DCR
- Populating the CiscoWorks Databases
- Configuring User-Defined Groups

Module 4: Implementing Asset Management
- Introducing Asset Management
- Running Asset Reports
- Watching for Inventory Changes

Module 5: Managing Network Connectivity
- Managing Network Connectivity
- Managing Device Connectivity
- Managing Host, End User, and IP Phone Connectivity
- Diagnosing Connectivity Problems

Module 6: Managing Device Configurations
- Introduction to Device Configuration Management
- Managing Configuration Files
- Managing VLAN Configurations
- Managing Device Software Images

Module 7: Managing Network Performance
- Introducing Performance Management
- Monitoring using IPM
- Monitoring with CiscoView

Module 8: Managing Faults in the Network
- Introducing Fault Management
- Detecting and Analyzing Real-Time Faults
- Detecting Faults using Syslog Analysis<
- Troubleshooting with Device Center

Module 9: Performing CiscoWorks System Administration
- Deploying CiscoWorks
- Administration Tasks

Expected Duration (hours)
30.0

Lesson Objectives

Implementing CiscoWorks for Enterprise LAN/WAN Management (CWENT) 2.5 Expert Encore

Describe fundamental network management concepts

Describe the CiscoWorks applications in the LMS bundle

Prepare the various CiscoWorks databases

Maintain the asset inventory

Maintain network connections

Maintain device configurations

Monitor device performance

Manage device faults

Performa advanced CiscoWorks system administration

Course Number:
LLCS0014