Engineering Cisco Meraki Solutions

This workshop is intended to provide technical guidance to learn basics for network programming and use the knowledge to design, and deveop Cisco SD-WAN network automation requirements. You will learn how to integrate programmability and automation in the Cisco-powered Enterprise, Campus, and Wide Area Networks
using SD-WAN.

It enables the participants to explore all the programmability options available with Cisco SD-WAN. You will learn the vManage REST APIs initially using Postman and then using Python code and Ansible. Next, you will learn configuring advanced policies on the vSmart controllers that govern how SD-WAN fabric forwards traffic.

Finally, you will explore how to perform a variety of important actions, such as collecting dashboard/control statistics, performing complex data queries, alarm management and administering the overall SD-WAN solution. The participants will be taken through the Cisco Cloud-Native WAN (CN-WAN) project as a case study to understand and appreciate how various concepts learnt earlier are applied. When you are finished with this course, you will have the foundational skills and knowledge of SD-WAN automation needed to deploy and manage carrier-grade SD-WAN deployments.

Learning Objectives:

  • Awareness about SDN and Cisco programmable networking options
  • Writing basic python scripts and verify
  • Writing basic ansible scripts and verify
  • Data formatting and modelling tools
  • Getting started with SD-WAN programming
  • Understanding Cisco SD-WAN solution components
  • Implement a python library that works with the Cisco SD-WAN APIs to perform configuration, inventory
    management, and monitoring tasks,
  • Implement reusable Ansible roles to automate provisioning new branch sites on an existing Cisco SD
    WAN infrastructure
  • Study of real-life network automation uses cases and CN-WAN as a case study

I. Workshop Training Modules

Day 1

i. Overview ii. Administration iii. Feature-sets iv. Configuration
  • SDWAN Fundamentals
  • Auto-VPN
  • Traffic shaping
  • Security – Firewall Filtering
i. Overview ii. Administration iii. Feature-sets iv. Configuration
  • Switch Settings
  • VLAN
  • QoS
  • Routing – Staic and Dynamic
  • Layer 2 & 3 Security in Meraki Networks

i. Overview
ii. Administration
iii. Feature-sets
iv. Implementation and Configuration

  • Bridge mode
  • SSIDs
  • Guest WiFI
  • Firewall and Traffic shaping

i. cloud-based solution benefits
ii. Out-of-band control plane
iii. organizational structure – Heirarchy
iv. Dashboard segmentation and permissions
v. Licensing
vi. Design and implement a basic Meraki network deployment workflow

i. visibility and monitoring tools and methods
ii. Firmware Upgrades
iii. Troubleshooting Networks
iv. Engaging Meraki Support
v. Best Practices

i. Dashboard access
ii. Shared – Access to devices

II. Pre-Requisites

  • Criterion Cisco SDWAN Foundations workshop completion or its equivalent
  • Basic knowledge of Programming such as Python, Postman, Ansible etc is desirable

III. Target Audience

Technical Leaders/Managers Software Engineers (Dev/Test) Network Support Engineers
Technical Marketing Engineers Network Administrators/Engineers Sales/Systems Engineers

IV. Information on Hands-on Labs

Some of the Cloud labs would be limited in quantity and available for shared use among participants.
Participants need to have the below requirements to be able to do hands-on exercises.

  • Modern Laptop computer (Windows or Mac or Linux)
  • Internet Access to Lab setup on Cloud
  • SSH connectivity to Lab VM
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