Duration: 2 Days
In this course, you will gain the knowledge and skills needed to configure HP A-Series products in the contemporary enterprise network. Through hands-on labs, you will work with A-Series switches and routers.
What You Will Learn
- A-Series networking products and technologies
- Configure basic setup parameters
- Update software for A-Series switches and routers
- Save and back up configuration files for A-Series switches and routers
- Configure and verify VLANs
- Configure ports for trunk, access, or hybrid mode to support various
VLAN configurations
- Configure device-access security features such as passwords, privilege
levels, and SSH
- Configure and verify link aggregation
- Configure Spanning Tree
- Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF)
- Configure IP static routes
- Configure RIP routing
Audience
Prerequistes
- Getting Started with HP Wireless Networks
Course Outline
1. Product Overview
- HP A-Series portfolio
- A-Series campus switch portfolio
- A-Series router portfolio
2. Basic Configuration of A-Series
Devices
- Management interfaces
- Console cable
- Using the console port
- Authentication modes
- CLI command privilege levels
- Configure console access
- Configure Telnet access
- Configure SSH access
- Views (contexts) structure
- Views in the CLI
- A-Series CTRL
- Saving and deleting working configurations
- Common upgrade methods
- A-MSR router upgrade in FTP mode
- Boot menu: File control
- Initial system configuration
- Useful command reference
3. Configuring VLANs and Link
Aggregation
- Configuring switch ports
- Display port status
- VLANs
- Switch VLAN port types
- VLAN configuration-Sample setup
- Creating VLANs
- List VLANs
- Defining access ports
- Defining multiple access ports
- Creating hybrid ports for IP phones
- List hybrid ports
- Defining uplinks as trunk ports
- VLAN configuration on distribution switch
- Define IP addresses on distribution switch
- Link aggregation
- Static link aggregation
- An aggregated link is a virtual port
- Dynamic link aggregation
- Outbound load sharing mode
- Display status of link aggregation
4. Configuring Spanning Tree
- STP support
- STP vs. RSTP/MSTP port roles
- MSTP/RSTP port roles and states
- Typical configuration with MSTP
- What happens if MSTP region configuration is wrong?
- MSTP configuration steps
- Steps 1 and 2: Enable MSTP and configure MSTP region
- Verify MSTP region configuration
- Step 3: Define root and secondary root of MSTP instances
- Verify MSTP instance configuration
- Status of STP ports in all instances
- Step 4: Define edge and non-edge ports
- Step 5: Enhance STP
- STP between MSTP regions
5. Implementing IRF
- Advantages of IRF
- IRF specifications
- Basic IRF concepts
- High availability
- IRF application scenario
- Increasing port density
- Expanding system processing capabilities
- Expanding bandwidth
- How IRF simplifies networks
- Advantages of this topology
- IRF master election
- Member IDs
- Configuration files
- Configuration steps
- IRF display commands
6. Routing Basics and RIP
- IP routes sources preferences
- Static routes
- RIP
- Split horizon
- RIP configuration
Course Labs
Lab 1: Initial Router and Switch Configuration
Lab 2: VLANs and Link Aggregation
Lab 3: Spanning Tree
Lab 4: Configuring IRF (Optional)
Lab 5: RIP
