CSSOC (Content Services Switch Operation and Configuration) Training Class

1. Cisco Content Switching Product Overview

• How Web Switching Works


• Content Switching Portfolio Overview


• Content Services Switch Details


• Content Switching Module Details


• SSL Portfolio Overview

2. CLI and Initial Configuration

• Log into the CSS11500


• Describe the Command Line Interface (CLI) and identify the different types of
  CLI connections


• Identify the CLI modes of operation


• Describe an interface, VLAN, and Circuit


• Use the CLI to perform the following operations:
  
  
  
  • Create a username with User permission
  
  
  • Configure and display interfaces
  
  
  • Configure, display, and remove circuits
  
  
  
  


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  Use the CLI to perform the following operations:
  
  
  
  • Configure, and remove RIP
  
  
  • Configure and remove DNS
  
  
  • Configure, display, and remove a static route
  
  
  • Display, save, archive, and restore a configuration
  
  
  • Configure, display, and remove an FTP record
  
  
  
  


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  Describe and configure an alias


• 
  Describe CSS logging features

3. Services

• Describe and Configure Services


• Describe Keepalives


• Configure Service and Global Keepalives


• Describe and Configure Scripted Keepalives


• Explain and Configure Redirect Services


• Explain and Configure Service Load


• Describe and Configure DFP


• Display and Clear Service Statistics


• Remove Service

4. Owners and Content Rules

• Owners and Content Rules


• Describe a Source Group and how they are used


• Explain how Sorry Servers are implemented as a backup method


• Explain the implementation of a Redirect Service as a backup method


• Describe Content Rule Persistence and Persistence Reset and Remap


• PIC Version 9.4 FY04, Q1 4 of 6


• Use the CLI to perform the following operations:
  
  
  
  • Configure and display Services
  
  
  • Configure and display Owners
  
  
  • Configure and display Content Rules
  
  
  • Configure Source Groups
  
  
  • Configure Content Persistence
  
  
  • Configure Domain Name Qualifier Lists (DQLs)
  
  
  
  

5. Load Balancing

• Describe and configure various all-purpose load balancing methods


• Describe and configure advanced load balancing methods


• Describe and configure HTTP Header load balancing methods


• Describe and configure an ARPT Cookie

6. Domain Name Services and Global Server Load Balancing

• Describe the DNS resolution process


• Describe the DNS resolution process when a CSS is an authoritative DNS name
  server


• Explain Cisco's Content Application Peering Protocol (CAPP)


• Describe the binding process of a virtual IP address and a domain name


• Configure Content Smart Domain Name Services


• Describe the functionality of the CSS Content Router Agent


• Describe the functionality of the CSS as a Client Side Accelerator

7. VIP and Interface Redundancy

• Overview VIP and IP Interface Redundancy


• Define a Virtual Router


• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol


• Virtual Router Configuration


• Virtual Router VIP & IP Interface Failover


• Describe and Configure Critical Services


• Describe and Configure Interface Redundancy


• Shared VIP Redundancy


• Fate Sharing

8. Adaptive Session Redundancy

• Problem Description


• Problem Resolution


• ASR Overview


• ASR Configuration


• ASR Mechanics


• ASR Display Commands

9. SSL Basics

• SSL Associations


• SSL Proxy List


• SSL Module Service


• Content Rule HTTPS

10. SSL Advanced: Backend SSL and URL Rewrite

• PIC Version 9.4 FY04, Q1 5 of 6


• Backend SSL Flow Explanation


• SSL-Proxy-List


• Backend Service


• Content Rule


• URL Rewrite

11. CSM CLI, Basic Functions and Configuration

• Images, Releases, CLI


• Terminology


• Flow Processing


• Basic Configurations


• Health Monitoring


• Virtual Servers and L7 policies

12. CSM Network Design

• Interaction with MSFC


• Router / Bridge Mode


• Flow Rewrite


• One-arm designs


• Redundancy


• FWLB

This course is intended for technical professionals involved in the
installation, configuration,