Cisco ASR 5000 ePDG System Administration

Day 1: Morning Session

• Discussion: Course Objectives and Schedule
• Lesson 1: Getting Started with 4G Wi-Fi Offload
  • Client versus clientless devices
  • Trusted versus untrusted devices
  • ePDG and Wi-Fi infrastructure
  • Role of wireless LAN controller (WLC)
  • SSIDs and VLANs
  • EAP-based WLAN authentication
  • Portal-based WLAN authentication
  • Obtaining IP address of ePDG
  • Initial attachment via ePDG
• Lesson 2: Hardware Overview of the ASR 5000
  • Viewing card status
  • Viewing port status
  • Basics of link aggregation
  • Lunch

Day 1: Afternoon Session

• Lesson 3: Software overview of the ASR 5000
  • Software tasks on ePDG
  • Session recovery basics
  • Software licensing
  • System file system management
• Lesson 4: Terminology
  • Logical interfaces
  • Bindings

Day 2: Morning Session

• Review of day one, question-and-answer session
• Lesson 5: Configuring the ASR 5000 as an ePDG
  • SWu interface
  • IPSec transforms and policies
  • DIAMETER AAA SWm interface

Day 2: Afternoon Session

• Lesson 5: Configuring the ASR 5000 as an ePDG (continued)
  • ePDG service configuration
  • MAG service configuration
  • Role of DNS
  • Lab: Configuring an ePDG

Day 3: Morning Session

• Review of day two, question-and-answer session
• Lesson 6: Monitoring and Troubleshooting ePDG Operation
  • Viewing subscriber sessions
  • Obtaining IPSec information and statistics
  • Examining the ePDG service
  • DIAMETER proxy operation on the ASR 5000
  • Viewing MAG service operation

Day 3: Afternoon Session

• Lesson 7: Logging on the ASR 5000
  • Viewing system logs
  • Configuring runtime logging
  • Redirecting logging output
  • Logging a subscriber session
  • Configuring a syslog server
  • Crash logging
• Lesson 8: Threshold Crossing Alarms (TCAs)
  • Alert versus alarm model
  • Displaying threshold crossing alarm settings
  • Configuring threshold crossing alarms
  • Viewing alarms that have fired

Following are the prerequisites for this course:

• Participants must also have a thorough understanding of IP routing, networking protocols, and a basic working knowledge of applicable W-Fi network operation.

Participants are required to bring the following materials to this training course:

• Laptop or notebook computer with:
  • Terminal emulation program (such as PuTTY, available at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) capable of Telnet or SSH
  • 10/100BASE-T Ethernet interface

Participants are responsible for all travel and expenses

Upon completion of this course, you should have a thorough understanding of the following aspects of the platform:

• Performing basic service configuration and monitoring of the ePDG
• Monitoring the system for proper subscriber session establishment
• Basic debugging of initial attachment failure

At the completion of this course, all participants receive a certificate of completion.