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Installation and configuration of management tools

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Installation and configuration of management tools

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On the CCSP exam, they'll expect you to have some knowledge and possibly experience with data center tools. The most popular data center deployment is going to be a Cisco deployment. In fact, they're going to be using their own version of software-defined networking known as ACI, Application Centric Infrastructure, and the way to manage that is through controllers or APICs. So I want to suggest to you, if you have some time preparing for the exam, go take a look at this page at Cisco that says Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller or APIC at a glance. What you'll see here is a prototype example of some of the controller features in a modern For example, it lists some of the attributes here on this website. The ability to build and enforce application-centric network policies. Remember, ACI is just Cisco's version of software-defined networking, right? Application, software. Defined, centric, networking infrastructure. So build and enforce policies. policies, an open framework through northbound and southbound APIs that is built on a traditional open source, open flow technology, in fact. Integration of third-party layer 4 through 7 services, virtualization and management, intelligent telemetry and visibility for applications and the multiple tenants, as well as the ability to provide security for those multi-tenant environments in a a scalable fashion and a common policy platform for physical, virtual, and cloud networking. So be familiar with Cisco APIC. You won't get specific questions on the exam, but realize this is the dominant hardware in on-premise data centers and, of course, in cloud data centers like Amazon Web Services. Another thing to look at is the Cisco APIC Getting Started Guide. Now, there's no configuration on this exam. But if you go to this site and you look at this Getting Started guide, you'll see an example of the graphical user interface that is used as a management tool for this ACI environment. So as you scroll down, you can see it's going to break it up into different APIC regions. You can see areas of the GUI interface, built-in tenant support, fabric support, and other administrative and visibility and troubleshooting tools. So again, on this exam, no specific questions about the Cisco ACI. But realize that to have some familiarity with this environment, that's going to be probably the number one dominant hardware in the data center. And it certainly wouldn't hurt to have some working knowledge of these solutions.

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