Overview

This is a scheduled self-paced lab course because the lab requires the student to attend a scheduled lab session. This course has hands-on lab sessions delivered on specific dates. When you enroll in this course, we will contact you to discuss available dates and times for the hands-on lab session.

Before taking thee ZN777 course students should attend the free DL10032G course.

https://learn.ibm.com/course/view.php?id=10185 course.

Information on the schedule for the ZN777 course is here:

https://ibm-learning-skills-dev.github.io/ICP4NetworkAutomationCourse.html

Enrollment information:      

IBM Clients and Business Partners interested in enrolling in ZN777 should contact an IBM Global Training Provider (GTP) to schedule their enrollment and arrange payment. The list of Global Training Providers can be found at the bottom of this page: 

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IBM employees interested in enrolling in this course, please email: camedct@us.ibm.com

Course Information

This self-paced course is intended to teach the skills that are needed to successfully install, configure, and use Cloud Pak for Network Automation (CP4NA) 2.1. This course is the second part of instructor-led or self-paced training in Cloud Pak for Network Automation and focuses on hands-on lab exercises to describe, deploy, and manage VOIP and telco components. The first portion of the course is the free course:

DL10032G: https://learn.ibm.com/course/view.php?id=10185

that focuses on the fundamental principles, architecture, and terminology of CP4NA.

Audience

This course is intended for systems engineers, technical support professionals, system administrators, administrators, and deployers of CP4NA 2.1.

Prerequisites

• Completion of basic training on IBM Cloud Paks
• Completion of IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation Foundations course or its online equivalent.
• Proficiency in deployment of Red Hat OpenShift containers
• Understanding of telecommunications concepts
• Proficiency in command-line tools such as the vi editor in Linux and Red Hat OpenShift commands
• Ability to use VPN, ssh, and GitHub repository
• Ability to edit Red Hat OpenShift configuration files

Objective

• Understand the installation process for CP4NA
• Edit assembly and resource descriptors
• Use the Lifecycle Manager to push project descriptors to the CP4NA server
• Instruct the CP4NA server to deploy assemblies and resources in a virtual environment such as Red Hat Openstack or Red Hat OpenShift
• Remove assemblies and resources from deployment
• Automate scaling of resources to meet traffic loads
• Automate testing to validate deployed resources

Exercises

• Exercise 1. Verify your desktop tools
• Exercise 2. Create an assembly project and descriptor
• Exercise 3. Deploy assemblies and resources
• Exercise 4. Add a jumphost server
• Exercise 5. Configure server behaviors
• Exercise 6. Simulate traffic to test scaling
• Exercise 7. Automate behavior tests

Course Outline

• Course introduction
• Unit 1. Installing Cloud Pak for Network Automation 2.1
• Unit 2. Introduction to course lab exercises
• Unit 3. Verify desktop tools
• Exercise 1. Verify your desktop tools
• Unit 4. Create an assembly project and descriptor
• Exercise 2. Create an assembly project and descriptor
• Unit 5. Deploy assemblies and resources
• Exercise 3. Deploy assemblies and resources
• Unit 6. Add a jumphost server
• Exercise 4. Add a jumphost server
• Unit 7. Configure server behaviors
• Exercise 5. Configure server behaviors
• Unit 8. Simulate traffic to test scaling
• Exercise 6. Simulate traffic to test scaling
• Unit 9. Automate behavior tests
• Exercise 7. Automate behavior tests
• Unit 10. Demonstration Use CP4NA with CI/CD tool
• Unit 11. Demonstration Use the CP4NA API
• Course summary