- Section 1 - Course Introduction
- Instructor and Student Introductions
- Administrivia and other Miscellany
- Section 2 - Introduction to Cisco Network Registrar
- Identify the key features of CNR 6.2
- Identify the advanced features of CNR 6.2
- Understand and identify the components of the CNR
architecture and the supported hardware platforms
- Identify the user interfaces available in CNR 6.2
- Install, start and troubleshoot CNR 6.2
- Section 3 - DNS Protocol Review
- Identify the purpose and structure of the DNS
- Identify the function of a name server
- Define critical DNS terms
- Identify the difference between a zone and a domain
- Identify the difference between a forward zone and a reverse
zone
- Section 4 - DNS Configuration
- Define terms related to DNS configuration
- Use the CNR Web UI to configure the DNS server with new
primary forward and reverse zones
- Use the CNR Web UI to configure secondary zones forward
and reverse zones
- Configure CNR zones to accept Dynamic DNS Updates
- Section 5 - High Availability DNS
- Understand the limitations of DNS and the need for HA DNS
- Understand how to design a HA DNS server pair
- Configure HA DNS servers
- Understand how the HA DNS servers synchronize data
- Understand how HA DNS operates during a failure
- Section 6 - Troubleshooting CNR DNS
- Find DNS server status and statistics
- Use and search the DNS server log files to find potential
problems
- Configure debug settings on the DNS server
- Identify and understand the most common errors
- Use nslookup and dig to test DNS operations
- DAY 2
- Section 7 - DHCP Protocol Overview
- Explain the major advantages and limitations of the DHCP
protocol
- Identify the messages exchanged between the DHCP client
and server in the process of DHCP address leasing
- Explain the DHCP client states as it acquires and maintains
its lease
- Explain the factors to consider when determining DHCP
lease time
- Section 8 - Configuring DHCP
- Define: cluster, policy, scope.
- Configure DHCP policies.
- Configure DHCP scopes.
- Identify four limitations of the DHCP protocol
- Section 9 - Configuring Client-Class and Clients
- Explain the function and purpose of the
client class feature.
- Define clients, client-classes, scope-selection-tags, inclusionand
exclusion-criteria and the default client
- List the steps in the configuration of class-of-service.
- Identify the levels of the policy hierarchy.
- Explain the factors that affect scope, policy, and options
selection and how they relate to client-class
- Configure clients and client-classes
- Configure the DHCP server to use client-class to distinguish
between different client types
- Understand features using expressions and the relay agent
DHCP option 82
- Section 10 - DHCP Failover
- Identify the purpose, advantages and limitations of DHCP
Failover
- Identify and describe and configure the three types of failover
configurations
- Understand failover protocol operation and the various
transition states of partner servers
- Configure and synchronize failover server pairs
- Configure load-balancing
- Check the status of and troubleshoot failover configurations
- Detect and handle network failures.
- Section 11 - Troubleshooting CNR DHCP
- Find DHCP server status and statistics
- Identify the conditions that decrement the health status for
the DHCP server
- Use and search the DHCP server log files to find potential
problems
- Understand and configure debug settings on the DHCP
server
- Section 12 - Introduction to the Regional Cluster
- Understand the difference between Local and Regional
Cluster
- Identify functions performed by Regional Cluster
- Install and configure a Regional Cluster
- Configure local clusters and single-sign-on
- Section 13 - Address Space Management
- Define the key terms used in address space management
- Configure and manage address blocks
- Delegate address space to local clusters
- Configure and manage subnets
- Push subnets to local clusters and routers
- Configure and run subnet utilization reporting
- Section 14 - Centralized DNS Management
- Identify the DNS management tasks that can be performed
at the Regional Cluster
- Create new DNS zones and push them to the local clusters
- Understand the functions of zone distributions
- Configure and use a zone distribution
- Section 15 - Configuring Failover with the Regional Cluster
- Configure local clusters for failover from the regional cluster
UI
- Check the status of failover from the regional cluster UI
- Section 16 - Managing Administrators, Groups and Roles
- Identify administrative roles in CNR
- Describe access controls for the web UI and command line
interface (CLI)
- Section 17 - Server and Database Maintenance
- Identify and configure the mechanisms through which CNR
system status can be reported
- Identify and configure the methods through which CNR can
report problems with system operations
- Explain the purpose and use of the CNR TAC Tool
- Explain the process by which CNR’s databases can be
backed up and restored
- Section 18 - Configuring DHCPv6
- Identify and Understand key IPv6 terms
- Understand the concepts of IPv6 Addressing
- Understand the operation of the DHCPv6 Protocol
- Identify the changes CNR's Policy Hierarchy for DHCPv6
- Configure DHCPv6 operations in CNR
- Configure administrative users and assign roles
- Create constrained administrative roles
- Configure and run lease history reporting
- Identify and understand the most common errors
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