Course Details
Implementing the CISCO Application Control Engine (ACE) Appliance 1.0
  • Course Length: 4 days
  • Course Price: $0
  • Code: ACEAP
  • Course Mode: ILT
Prerequisite
TCP / IP protocol, HTTP and SSL protocols, N-tier application architecture, Server load-balancing, ACESM - Implementing the Application Control Engine Service Module, AXGOC (1.0) - ACE XML Gateway Operations and Configuration
Audience
Cisco Channel Partner/Reseller and Cisco customers will benefit from this course.

ACEAP is a 4-day, instructor-led, lecture / lab course that teaches you how to design, deploy, and optimize intelligent network services using the Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) Appliance. This course covers all of the key features of the ACE 2.0 software, including resource virtualization and management, server load balancing (Layer 2-4 and Layer 7), SSL termination and offload, and security features like application-layer inspection and fixups.

  • Course Introduction
    • Overview
    • Course Goal and Objectives
    • Course Flow
    • Additional References
  • Lesson 1: Introducing the Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance
    • IP Protocol Stack Review
    • IP Application Review
    • Web Technology Overview
    • Introducing the Cisco ACE
  • Lesson 2: Deploying Cisco ACE
    • Connecting Cisco ACE to the Network
    • Cisco ACE Installation Procedure
    • Cisco ACE Appliance GUI
    • Network Topologies
    • Virtualization
    • Resource Management
    • Authorizing Management Users
    • Configuring Interfaces
  • Lesson 3: Modular Policy CLI
    • Class Maps
    • Policy Maps
    • Applying Policy Maps
  • Lesson 4: Managing the Cisco ACE Appliance
    • Permitting Management Traffic
    • SNMP Manageability
  • Lesson 5: Security Features
    • IP Access Control Lists
    • TCP/IP Fragmentation/Reassembly
    • TCP/IP Normalization
    • Network Address Translation
  • Lesson 6: Layer 4 Load Balancing
    • Load-Balancing Concepts
    • Load-Balancing Algorithms
    • Configuring Layer 4 Load Balancing
  • Lesson 7: Health Monitoring
    • Health Monitoring Overview
    • Active Health Probes
    • HTTP Error Code Monitoring
    • Using TCL Scripting
  • Lesson 8: Layer 7 Protocol Processing
    • Configuring HTTP Layer 7 Load Balancing
    • Persistent and Pipelined HTTP Extensions
    • Server Reuse
    • Session Persistence
    • Protocol Inspection
    • HTTP Inspection
    • FTP Protocol Processing
    • Other Inspected Protocols
  • Lesson 9: Processing Secure Connections
    • Digital Encryption Technologies
    • SSL Service Options
    • Configuring a Public Key Infrastructure
    • Configuring SSL Proxy Services
  • Lesson 10: Deploying Application Acceleration and Optimization
    • Web Application Acceleration Architecture
    • FlashForward
    • Delta Optimization
    • Smart Redirect
    • Fast Redirect
    • FlashConnect
    • Just-in-Time Object Acceleration
    • Adaptive Dynamic Cache
    • Compression Overview
  • Lesson 11: High Availability
    • Redundancy
    • Object Tracking
    • Failover
    • State Replication
    • Fault-Tolerance Configuration
    • Displaying Fault-Tolerance Information
  • Lesson 12: Integrating Multiple Features
    • Analyzing Network Requirements
    • Designing Cisco ACE Contexts
    • Designing Cisco ACE Features
    • Configuring Multiple Integrated Features

  • The methods used to manage the ACE appliance.
  • ACE features that provide IP application-based security.
  • The capabilities and configuration of the ACE features used to provide load balancing of IP-based applications.
  • The health monitoring capabilities of the ACE module.
  • Layer 7 processing options used to provide advanced application networking.
  • ACE support for SSL protocol processing.
  • Key application acceleration and optimization features and their benefits in the overall design.
  • The High Availability features of the ACE appliance which are used to provide reliable application networking services.
  • A methodology used to design and configure multiple ACE features.