Cisco® Active Network Abstraction (CANA)

Length: 4-day Workshop

Cisco® Active Network Abstraction (Cisco ANA) is a highly scalable, fault-tolerant, customizable management system for large-scale, multiprotocol, and multivendor networks. The Cisco® Active Network Abstraction (CANA) course is a modular course that teaches students how to install, configure, customize, and effectively use the Cisco® ANA product suite. The student gains understanding of the primary components of the ANA architecture; guidelines for deployment; hardware and software requirements; and the concepts, processes, and tools that allow customization of an ANA management system to meet the specific needs of the customer’s unique network. The students’ understanding is deepened by hands-on labs that include installing ANA units, gateway, and client software and utilizing the ANA applications, NetworkVision and EventVision, for network and service discovery and fault detection. Students will use the ANA customization tools to create, manage, and troubleshoot ANA Soft Properties, custom commands, and workflows.

You will learn to:

• Describe the ANA architecture, consisting of Cisco® ANA gateways, ANA units, and clients
• Describe virtual network elements (VNEs), which are the software-based building blocks of the Cisco® ANA virtual network model, each one cloning the characteristics and properties of its real-world counterpart
• Create network maps and build a virtual network model consisting of VNEs
• Discover and view network inventory information
• Manage VPNs, view automatically discovered VPNs, and create or change VPN views
• Troubleshoot, manage, and correlate network events and faults
• Plan an ANA deployment and provide calculated recommendations for the hardware and software requirements based on the management plan
• Install the various ANA components
• Configure the VNEs
• Configure user accounts and ANA security features
• Maintain and troubleshoot the ANA system
• Plan for high availability
• Understand the ANA registry and its inheritance and the purpose of the ANA Golden Source
• Create, manage, and troubleshoot ANA Soft Properties
• Set soft properties thresholds and define threshold crossing alarms
• Utilize ANA Command Builder to create, manage, and troubleshoot custom commands
• Create and deploy ANA custom workflows using the Workflow Editor, templates, views, and user preferences
• Understand Inheritance and how to publish, export, and import ANA soft properties, commands, and workflows
• Use ANA Manage and ANA EventVision to view and manage the deployed workflows

After completing this four-day course, students will have gained extensive knowledge about the primary components of the ANA architecture and will have learned how to set up and use the ANA applications. Students will meet these objectives by applying the information learned in the lectures through hands-on lab exercises.

Recommended for:

This course is for network administrators and consultants who will be planning, installing, customizing, and using the Cisco® ANA applications for network, service, and fault management in multivendor networks. The following are the primary audience for this course:

• Network administrators, system administrators, and operators
• System integrators, professional services, and consultants

Prerequisites:

• Basic Microsoft Windows user-level knowledge
• Basic understanding of network management concepts (Simple Network Management Protocol [SNMP], MIBs, and so on)
• TCP/IP networking experience
• Oracle administration knowledge
• Solaris and UNIX system administration knowledge

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