Lecture and Lab, 2 days

This two day course provides a comprehensive introduction to the Nominum Vantio Base Server and the NXR SDM. It covers both concepts and operational aspects of the products and provides hands-on experience with them. It also covers administration of Vantio and the NXR SDM with EAC. This course is essential for administrators who are responsible for the configuration and operation of the Vantio Base Server.

Please see our training schedule for information on class dates.

Who should attend?

This course is designed for system administrators and network administrators responsible for managing DNS infrastructure.

Course Topics

• DNS Concepts
• DNS Name Space
• Name Server overview
• Caching vs Authoritative Name Servers
  
• Introduction to Vantio
  
• Basic Vantio Components and Concepts
• Terminology
• Nominum Nanny
• Nominum Command Channel
  
• Installing and Configuring Vantio and the NXR SDM
  • Overview of Vantio installation packages
  • Basic server setup with configuration files
  • Importing configuration from BIND
    
• General Operation
• Vantio statistics and using statistics to interpret query traffic
• Validating responses
• Performance tuning
  
• Extended Administration
• Using SNMP
• Battling cache poisoning using Detect and Defend
  
• Troubleshooting and Scripting
• Cache maintenance
  Delegation forensics
  Performance monitoring with statistics
  Using the Command Channel API to create useful Perl scripts
  
• Views and View Configuration
  
• Logging and Statistics
• Configuring logging
• Get/reset statistics


• Overview of EAC

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.