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Policy Enabled Networking

Understand the Enterasys Secure Networks™ Policy Enabled architecture to design secure, reliable and intelligent network infrastructures with Enterasys Policy Enabled products

Associated Certifications:

Enterasys Certified Internetworking Engineer (ECIE)

Duration:

4 Days
Training Method: ILT: Instructor Led Training
Enterasys Facility (NA, UK): 1 Enterasys Service Unit (PS-ESU-1)

On-site Deliveries:

Please contact your local Enterasys representative for special pricing

Course Overview:

Within this course, students will learn methods to properly plan, deploy, configure, secure, and manage their Policy Enabled network infrastructure.  Students will gain experience by performing real world tasks in designing QoS and Security policies for real world infrastructure applications within the classroom environment.  Upon conclusion of lecture component, students will work together to design and present their respective QoS and Security design to the class for review.  NOTE: This is not a configuration course for Policy Manager.  To understand how to configure the Policy Manager application, please attend the Enterprise Management course.
Who Should Attend: Network & Security Managers, Architects, and Systems Integrators

Course Prerequisites:

Students should possess an understanding of network fundamentals, traffic classifications, and general network management concepts, as well as network security concepts and technologies.  Enterasys recommends the following courses prior to enrolling in the Policy Enabled Networking course: Enterprise Switching & Enterprise Management
Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course, students will have gained the knowledge to best utilize all the existing capabilities within the Enterasys Secure Networks Policy Enabled products to both effectively and efficiently secure their enterprise network.

Course Agenda:

Area of focus within the class involves:

  • Policy Enabled Networking Overview – An overview of Policy Enabled Networking concepts, as well as discussions regarding the Enterasys Secure Networks enabled architectures and product families.
  • Traffic Classifications and Marking with Policy – Overview and discussions of Traffic Management challenges general assumptions, Traffic Classifications overview, NetSight Policy Manager implementations, Policy Configurations guidelines, hardware considerations for effective Traffic Classification and Traffic Marking.
  • Authentication mechanisms with Policy – Authentication methods in regards to Enterasys Policy, including RADIUS client configurations, authentication method configuration, authentication services including RADIUS server configuration and 802.1x supplicant configuration and interactions are discussed.
  • Traffic forwarding treatment – Introduction and overview of different traffic forwarding treatment styles, in regards to the DiffServ functionality. This includes the concepts of Queuing, Rate Limiting, Rate Shaping, and Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED).
  • Policy Deployment methods – Introduction to Policy Deployment, including Policy configuration approaches, deploying static policy for trusted and un-trusted (guest) users and the deployment of dynamic policy for trusted users.  NetSight Policy Manager configurations, enforcement, deployment methods and additional considerations for overall approaches are also covered.  

Recommended Next Courses:

None

Certification Training:

All courses listed are offered by Enterasys and our Enterasys Certified Instructor (ECI) partner network
Course Schedule: Classroom Training Schedule

For Managers:

Policy Enabled Networking is targeted for those users that have acquired a solid understanding of Enterasys Infrastructure and Security solutions and now require design methodology skills in order to effectively perform their respective functions.  Ideal candidates for the Policy Enabled Networking course are Network Security Administrators / Architects or Systems Integration Specialists who are tasked with the responsibility of planning and designing an infrastructure security policy for their network domains.  Upon completion of this course, your employees will have gained the ability to provide insight through real world lab exercises regarding the planning and design of a security policy utilizing the Enterasys policy enabled infrastructure family of products.