Lecture and Lab, 3 days

This two day course is essential for administrators who wish to learn about the features of ANS Premier, better understand how ANS Premier manages computing and network resources, and learn how to integrate ANS Premier with other systems. The course covers the basics of DNS, and provides a complete introduction to Nominum's ANS Premier. Topics include DNS security (DNSSEC and TSIG), split-DNS views, how to update ANS Premier zone data while the server is running, multimastering and Real Time Visibility.

Please see our training schedule for information on class dates.

Who should attend?

This course is designed for system administrators and new DNS administrators who have little or no previous knowledge of the Domain Name System or of DNS zone file format.

Course Topics

• DNS Concepts
  • DNS Name Space
  • Name Server overview
  • Authoritative vs Caching Name Servers
    
• Introduction to ANS Premier
  
• Basic ANS Premier Components and Concepts
  • Terminology
  • Nominum Nanny
  • Nominum Command Channel
  • ANS vs BIND configuration
  • The ANS database
  • ANS Premier Views
• Installing and Configuring ANS Premier
  • Overview of ANS Premier installation packages
  • Configuring ANS Premier over the Command Channel
• Understanding Master zones and Content
  • Publishing zones
  • Modifying views and zones
  • Updating zones through the Command Channel
  • Zone versions
• Using Zone Configuration and Slave zones
  • Creating slave zones
  • Slave zone configuration over the Command Channel
• Dynamic DNS (DDNS) updates
  • DDNS overview
  • Authenticating DDNS with Transaction Signatures (TSIG)
  • Configuring DDNS
• Real Time Visibility (RTV), Logging and Statistics
  • Configuring RTV
  • Configuring logging
  • Get/reset statistics
  • Enhanced Query Diagnostics
• Monitoring ANS Premier
  • Configuring Nominum Nanny
  • ANS Premier Events and SNMP
• Backup/Recovery, Customization
• Databases and off-line access
• Views and Alias zones
• Instance zones and Templates
• Multimastering with ANS Premier
  • Introduction to Nominum's multimastering protocol
  • Configuring a multimastering federation
  • Maintenance of multimastered zones
• DNSSEC with ANS Premier
  • DNSSEC overview
  • Secure zones with DNSSEC packs
  • Key Rollover
• Command Channel in depth
• Introducing the SDK with the CC API for Perl

Prerequisites

Attendees should have a basic understanding of the Internet and be comfortable with editing files and installing software on a UNIX operating system.

More Information

To register for this class or to find out more information, please send email to sales@nominum.com or call +1 877.249.1559 (toll free in US) or +1 650.381.6060.