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NSP System Administration

Course number: OS00121-V
Course duration: 3 days
Price: €2,400

Course overview

This hands-on instructor-led course enables the learner to develop a solid theoretical and practical understanding of NSP systems management, security and maintenance tools and procedures .  Begin by learning the key relationships within the NSP system architecture, including Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, RHEL, NSP cluster and NSP system components.  Understand how to secure Kubernetes and the internal NSP subsystems and services through TLS certificate management.  Discover how the “Kubectl” command line tool simplifies management of the Kubernetes cluster.  Learn important NSP component-specific admin procedures such as start/stop, status retrieval, and enabling logs.  Understand the different NSP system databases and how to perform backup/restore procedures.  Verify and monitor overall NSP system health and performance using tools such as Kibana, Grafana and log files.  And finally, view how to manage NSP user access control by creating/modifying users, user groups, roles and resource groups. This course is based on NSP version 24.8.

Course objectives

After completing the course, students should be able to:

 

  • Explain the NSP architecture and deployment architecture
  • Describe the NSP Kubernetes platform architecture
  • Describe the integration between NSP and the NFM-P
  • Explain and demonstrate TLS certificate management
  • Demonstrate how to manage Kubernetes
  • Explain NSP component-specific administration
  • Define the different NSP databases and how they interwork
  • Define how to perform database backup and restore tasks
  • Explain how to use third-party tools that support the NSP such as Kibana and Grafana
  • Describe how to view and collect the log files associated with NSP
  • Describe global alarm settings for the NSP
  • Identify the basic steps associated with troubleshooting an NSP deployment
  • Describe the various user roles associated with the NSP RHEL and application environments
  • Identify how to create restricted access user accounts for NSP applications

Course modules

Module 1 - System architecture

  • NSP system architecture
  • NSP Kubernetes platform architecture
  • NSP communication
  • NSP + NFM-P integration
  • NSP configuration file


Module 2 - Security management

  • TLS certificate management


Module 3 - Kubernetes and NSP component administration

  • Kubernetes administration
  • NSP cluster and component-specific administration


Module 4 - NSP database administration

  • NSP database overview
  • Database backup
  • Database restore


Module 5 - System health | Performance Management | Troubleshooting

  • Supporting administrative interfaces
  • Log files
  • Alarm management
  • Troubleshooting process


Module 6 - OS and NSP user management

  • NSP user types
  • Role-based access control for users of the NSP web applications
  • NSP user accounts
  • User session management