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TRNG-0202 intro to web switching and load balancing

Description
TRNG-0202 is a comprehensive study of the layer 4 through 7 features of Foundry Networks ServerIron products. Students gain hands on experience in configuration of typical installations with the ServerIrons. Lecture topics are supported with real world labs involving: Source NAT, Direct Server Return, Active-Active Server Load Balancing, Firewall Load Balancing (FWLB), and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB).

Who will benefit?
Anyone working with ServerIron products.

Prerequisites

To fully benefit from this course you should have a working knowledge of the listed technologies:
Foundry Networks CLI, Foundry Router Interfaces addressing, DNS, the OSI reference model, TCP/UDP port numbers, structure of a URL address.

Objectives
By the end of the course delegates will be able to:

Identify where Foundry ServerIron products are used in typical networks.
Configure ServerIrons in Layer 4 through 7 applications.
Incorporate fault tolerance and high availability at different levels.
Redirect content to cache servers without configuring a browser proxy.
Configure FWLB.
Implement policy based switching keying on SSL ID, cookie, or URL.

Duration: 2 days

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Contents

Intro to ServerIron
Overview of ServerIron Products, describe Layer 4 Switching, describe Server Load Balancing, describe Layer 4 Security Issues.

Configuring Server Load Balancing (SLB)
Describe a Basic SLB Configuration, execute show server commands, perform basic SLB Lab, perform an Active Standby SLB Lab, describe Filters, perform Source NAT Lab.

Advanced Features of SLB
Describe Switch Back (DSR), perform a DSR Lab, describe Multiple Virtual IP addresses, perform Active-Active Lab, describe Remote Server Farms, sample designs of SLB.

Transparent Cache Switching (TCS)
Describe the benefits of TCS, describe Web caching, describe TCS applications, configuring (TCS), basic TCS layout, define output policies, define Cache Servers, define Cache Groups, define cache traffic distribution, filtering cache traffic.

Firewall Load Balancing (FWLB)
Describe the benefits of Firewall Load Balancing, describe types of Firewalls, review a basic FWLB example, describe show FW commands, perform a basic FWLB Lab, review sample FWLB designs. Describe Stateful FWLB.

Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)
Describe GSLB, describe GSLB benefits, describe GSLB Site Predictor Metric, describe a configuration example, perform a GSLB Lab (3 Sites).

Policy Based Switching
Describe Cookie Based Switching, describe Cookie Based Hashing, describe SSL Session ID Switching, describe URL Switching.