Cisco NSO Administration and DevOps (NSO303)

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Configure Cisco NSO and access control to Cisco NSO
• Implement Cisco NSO high availability
• Describe and implement Layered Service Architecture
• Use DevOps practices for Cisco NSO development and operations
• Describe the purpose of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
• Implement and manage services and their associated device configurations
• Use Cisco NSO for service monitoring and compliance reporting

•  Cisco NSO Administration
  • Introducing Network and IT Convergence
  • Introducing Cisco NSO Architecture
  • IntroducingLinux
  • ExplainingSetup
  • Explaining Access Control
  • Describing Integration Options
• Scalability
  • Introducing Scalability and High Availability
  • Describing Scalable System Management
• DevOps Fundamentals
  • Describing Software Development Methodologies
  • Explaining Version Control System
  • Describing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

• Cisco NSO Operations
  • Introducing Service Maintenance
  • Performing Network Element Driver (NED) Upgrades
  • Introducing Configuration Management
  • Describing Change Management
  • Explaining Service Problem Management
  • Explaining Service Monitoring and Compliance Reporting
  • Cisco NSO and DevOps
  • Introducing Inventory Management
  • Describing Cisco NSO Use Cases

• Connecting to the Lab
• Learning to Use a Command-Line Text Editor
• Installing the Cisco NSO Software
• Role-Based Access and Cisco Physical Access Manager (Cisco PAM)
• Using Cisco NSO APIs
• High Availability
• Deploying the LSA l3vpn Service
• Network Connectivity Tool (NCT)
• Using Git
• Service Backup and Restore
• Perform a NED Upgrade
• Replacing a Device
• Creating a Compliance Report
• Migrating a Monolithic Service to LSA

Before you take this course, we recommend that you have the knowledge and skills obtainable by attending the Cisco Network Services Orchestrator Foundation (NSO201) class, including:

• Basic knowledge of the command line of UNIX-like operating systems
• Basic knowledge of Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)
• Basic knowledge of Yet Another Next Generation (YANG) data modelling
• Basic knowledge of Python software development

• System installers
• System integrators
• System administrators
• Network administrators
• Solutions designers