Course Overview
Together with OpenText™ Network Node Manager, OpenText™Network Automation is the second core component of the OpenText™ Network Operations Management (NOM) solution.
This four-day course about OpenText™ Network Automation (NA) teaches you how to use the NA solution to maintain, automate, and enforce policies and compliance on their enterprise networks. While you have a good understanding of managing and administering network devices, the course builds on that knowledge and teaches how to use a complex tool, such as NA to gain visibility and control over changes and corporate policies as applied to the enterprise network. You will learn how to automate previously manual tasks using the tools provided by NA to decrease error rates and increase productivity. You will also learn how to customize the tool to serve their purposes.
The class provides an opportunity to develop hands-on experience in configuring the tool, discovering and managing network devices, capturing, storing, and deploying their configuration, creating change plans, automating tasks and checking and enforcing compliance with policies using NA.
Highlights:
- Overview of NA functionality and operation
- Discovering, adding and deleting devices
- Creating device group for management and security purposes
- The management console
- Running tasks against devices and groups of devices
- Creating, editing and using templates and change plans
- Creating, modifying and using policies for compliance
- Using NA to upgrade device operating systems
- Creating and using workflows for change control
- Monitoring NA health
- Troubleshooting NA-related problems
- Utilizing the resources provided by the OpenText Marketplace
Who should attend
This course is intended for:
- Network engineers
- Network operations center (NOC) operators
- Support staff
- Operation Managers
Prerequisites
To be successful in this course, you should have the following prerequisites or knowledge:
- Device management operations principles and practices
- TCP/IP and industry-standard networking protocols
- Familiarity with network devices such as routers, gateways, firewalls, switches
- Systems and network administration
- Familiarity with Linux command language and shell scripting
- Basic programming skills with shell scripting and Perl/Python programming
Course Objectives
On completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Describe basic components and functions of Micro Focus Network Automation (NA)
- Add and delete devices
- Create groups for device management
- Run tasks against devices and groups
- Create, edit, and use templates and change plans
- Create and use policies for compliance
- Create and use reports
- Use NA to upgrade device operating systems
- Create and use workflows for change control
- Monitor the NA server health
- Configure and manage the NA server operation
- Troubleshoot NA-related problems
- Utilize the resources provided by the OpenText Marketplace
Course Content
- Accessing the Lab Environment
- Network Automation Overview
- Device Management
- Device Access Methods, Device Groups, and Tasks
- Change Plans and Tasks
- Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- Deploying Software Images and Using the Command-Line Interface
- Managing Policies
- Managing Reports
- Task Troubleshooting
- Authorizing User Access
- Workflows
- Monitoring Server Health
- Administrative Settings
- Administrative Troubleshooting
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Important notes for the booking of Open Text trainings
Please note that prepayment is required for participation in an Open Text training course. Participation in a training course is possible for 12 months after booking the course. Cancellations are excluded. For further information, please refer to our General Terms and Conditions.