Infoblox Advanced Administration

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Infoblox Advanced Administration

Campus: Westborough, MA
Scheduled Dates: March 18-19, 2010, July 22-23, 2010, Nov 18-19, 2010 and by request

Campus: New York, NY
Scheduled Dates: April 15-16, 2010, Aug 19-20, 2010 and by request

Level: Advanced

Type: Instructor-led

Certificate: CICE

Topic: NIOS

Release: 4.3

For schedules and pricing, contact Gia Paquette at 800-818-8070 x4711 or email gpaquette@akibia.com.

Course Summary

The Infoblox Advanced Administration Class (AAC) is an intensive two-day hands-on technical course exploring some of the advanced architectural and deployment options of the NIOS appliances.

 Please note that only those who have achieved CICA status will be accepted into this course.

Course Details

This course is required for achieving Certified Infoblox Core Engineer (CICE) status.

Audience: System Administrators, Network Administrators

Course Outline

Day One Agenda
Module 1: Administration Authentication & Lab

  • Overview of External Authentication
  • Authentication via RADIUS
  • Authentication via Active Directory
  • Building Local User Accounts

Module 2: Advanced DHCP Options

  • Overview of Custom Options
  • Configuration of Custom Option Spaces
  • Configuration of Option Filters Using the Vendor Class Identifier (Option 60)

Module 3: Dynamic DNS

  • How DDNS Functions with DHCP
  • The use of DHCP (Option 81)

Module 4: DNSSEC

  • What is DNSSEC and What Does It Do
  • How Does DNSSEC Work
  • What Are the New DNS Changes With DNSSEC
  • What is the DNSSEC Concept of "Trust"

Module 5: DNS Anycast

  • Infoblox Implementation of Anycast
  • How to Configure an Appliance to Use Anycast
  • Configure an Anycast IP Address
  • Configure the Appliance to Use OSPF
  • Activate Anycast DNS Services

Day Two Agenda
Module 6: Staged Upgrades

  • The Staged Upgrade Process
  • How to Configure and Schedule Upgrade Groups

Module 7: HA and Grid Communication

  • Overview of High Availability (HA)
  • Infoblox’s Implementation of the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
  • HA Issues and Behavior Overview of the Grid
  • Grid Communication
  • Grid Disaster Recovery

Module 8: DHCP Failover

  • What is DHCP Failover
  • What are the Advantages of DHCP Failover
  • How DHCP Failover Works

Module 9: Best Practices

  • Grid Best Practices
  • Infoblox DNS Best Practices
  • Infoblox DHCP and DHCP Failover Best Practices