Managing Campus Networks with the Airwave Management Platform (MCNAA) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Introduction to AWMS
  • Airwave Platform
  • Features and Benefits of AMP RAPIDS and Visual RF
  • Airwave products
  • Basic operations using AWMS
Installing AWMS
  • Installing AMP
  • Hardware requirements
  • Cent OS and AWMS software
  • Basic configuration steps
  • Upgrade AWMS software
  • Licensing AWMS
  • AWMS documentation
Adding Device to AWMS
  • Folders and Groups
  • Adding devices general process
  • Manually adding devices
  • Device discovery and managing device discovery
  • Moving a device to a folder
  • Troubleshooting
IAP Organizaion and Groups
  • Overview of IAP
  • Airwave integration
  • Golden configuration
  • IAP Organization options
  • IAP Whitelist
Using Visual RF and Visual RF Plan
  • Navigation
  • Setup
  • Heat-maps and location information
  • Import floorplan graphics
  • Plan deployments
  • Provision APs
  • Manage Visual RF performance
Network Health
  • Diagnostics page indicators
  • Network performance tabs
  • Source of issues
  • Network issues
Troubleshooting Clients and Wireless Networks
  • Searching for users and Diagnostics tab
  • Client issues
  • Network issues
  • AP issues
  • Switch/Controller issues
  • General Issues
Rogue Detection and Using RAPIDS
  • Why use RAPIDS
  • Threat Detection Methods
  • Rules
  • Classifications
  • IDS Events Report
  • New Rogue Devices Report
  • Visualization
  • PCI Compliance
  • WMS Offload
Managing Administrative Access, Alerts, Triggers and Reporting
  • Configure role-based administrative use access to the AMP system
  • Triggers
  • Alerts
  • Define and generate reports
Scalability and Redundancy
  • VM Redundancy
  • Failover for Redundancy
  • Master Console for large deployments
  • Multiple AMP Server deployments
  • Large Deployment example
System Administration
  • AMP Maintenance
  • Device Maintenance
Wired Device Management
  • Monitoring wired devices in AWMS
  • Wired device port and interface information
  • Wired device bandwith statistics and counters
  • Managing and configuring wired devices via AWMS templates
AirWave Aruba Groups
  • How AWMS configures devices
  • Using groups to control policies
  • Creating and controlling groups
  • Basic Group Design
  • Configuration Audits
IAP Template Configuration
  • Fetching a Template
  • Template Variables
  • Templates Configuration
IAP GUI Configuration
  • Golden configuration
  • GUI mode
  • GUI configuration