NSP Infrastructure Configuration Management Operations

After completing the course, students should be able to:

• Describe the NSP Infrastructure Configuration Management (ICM) solution and process.
• Describe the role of intent types and views in NSP ICM.
• List the ICM product artifacts.
• Describe the differences between physical and logical configuration templates.
• Describe the role of configuration templates.
• Explain the configuration template lifecycle states.
• Explain the difference between global and local configuration.
• Describe the use of targets in configuration templates.
• Describe and perform physical and logical configuration deployments.
• Perform how to drill down into a template to view all associated configuration deployments.
• Perform how to create a deployment based on a node configuration (Brownfield discovery).
• Perform how to migrate objects between configuration templates.
• Explain and perform the audit and align functionalities.

Module 1 - Introduction to ICM operations

• ICM operations overview
• Intent-based networking overview
• NSP ICM tools, roles, and process
• NSP ICM operations functionalities

Module 2 - Infrastructure configuration intent types

• Product infrastructure intent types
   

Module 3 - Infrastructure configuration: Creating and deploying

• Configuration intent type
• Role of configuration templates
• Configuration template life cycle state
• Configuration deployment life cycle state
• Creating a new configuration template
• Deploying templates (physical and logical)
• Deleting configuration
• Cloning templates
• Brownfield discovery
• Migrating objects between configuration templates
• Editing multiple deployments

Module 4 - Infrastructure configuration: Auditing and aligning

• Audit and aligning overview
• Performing audit and align
• Audit and align for bulk deployment
• Audit or align configurations for an NE