Implementing the Application Control Engine Service Module

This course is intended for a technical engineers and network architects who need to design or deploy server load-balancing solutions using the Cisco ACE module.

• Describe IP application delivery within the ACE module
• Describe the configuration tasks necessary to successfully deploy an ACE module
• Describe the structure and function of the Modular Policy CLI statements used to configure ACE features.
• Describe the methods used to manage the Cisco ACE Module
• Describe the capabilities the Cisco ACE Module used to load balance IP-based applications.
• Create new contexts and resource classes
• Implement fix-ups and inspection
• Troubleshoot common SLB configuration errors.
• Create class maps and server farms
• Configure a Cisco ACE context to load-balance traffic flows
• Configure a Cisco ACE context to monitor real servers
• Describe the ACE features that provide IP application-based security
• Implement SSL termination
• Configure network address translations
• Describe the high availability features of the Cisco ACE Module
• Identify the layer 7 processing options used to provide advanced application networking.
• Configure a Cisco ACE context to perform a variety of functions in an integrated environment

Introducing Cisco ACE Module

• IP Protocol Stack Review
• IP Application Review
• Introducing the Cisco ACE Module

Deploying Cisco ACE Module

• Connecting ACE to the Network
• Network Topologies
• Virtualisation
• Resource Management
• Authorizing Management Users
• Configuring Interfaces

Configuring Modular Policy CLI

• Class Maps
• Policy Maps
• Applying Policy Maps

Managing the Cisco ACE Module

• Permitting Management Traffic
• SNMP Manageability

Understanding Security Features

• IP Access Control Lists
• ACL Object Groups
• SYN Cookies
• TCP/IP Fragmentation/Reassembly
• TCP/IP Normalisation
• Network Address Translation and Port Address Translation

Configuring Layer 4 Load Balancing

• Load Balancing Concepts
• Load Balancing Algorithms
• Configuring Layer 4 Load Balancing
• Traffic Rate Limiting

Configuring Layer 7 Protocol Processing

• HTTP Layer 7 Load Balancing
• Persistent and Pipelined HTTP Extensions
• HTTP Modifications
• Session Persistence
• HTTP Inspection
• FTP Processing
• RDP Processing
• Radius Processing
• SIP Processing
• Generic Protocol Parsing
• Inspected Protocols

Processing Secure Connections

• Digital Encryption Technologies
• SSL Service Options
• Configuring a Public-Key Infrastructure
• Configuring SSL Proxy Services

Understanding High Availability

• Redundancy
• Object Tracking
• Failover
• State Replication
• Displaying Fault Tolerance Information
• Configuring Multiple Integrated Features.

Integrating Multiple Features

• Analysing Network Requirements
• Designing ACE Contexts
• Designing ACE features
• Configuring Multiple Integrated Features

The following courses are recommended for further study:

• DCIFE - Data Center Networking Infrastructure Support