• Course overview
  • Course details
  • Prerequisites

Course overview

About this course

This two-day course provides insight into the core functionality of the Pulse Secure Virtual Application Delivery (vADC) solution. Students will gain detailed functional knowledge of the Virtual Traffic Manager (vTM), Web Application Firewall and Services Director. Key areas include traffic management concepts, protocol support, high availability, SSL offload and scripting. Students will build their own demonstration system to show the principal functions of the product in action.

Audience profile

• Network Engineers
• Enterprise System Architects
• Technical Support Specialists
• Implementation Consultants
• System Administrators
• DevOps Specialists
• Sales Engineers

At course completion

you will be able to:

• Managing Application Traffic
• Traffic Manager deployment options
• Clustering
• Hosting Multiple Services
• Layer 7 Protocol Support
• Managing Nodes and Failover
• TrafficScript fundamentals
• Web Content Compression and Caching
• Session Persistence and SSL Features
• Bandwidth Management and Service Features
• Traffic Generation and Performance Improvements
• Traffic Manager Troubleshooting
• Services Director
• Web Application Firewall

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Course details

Day 1

Module 1: Course Introduction
Demo 0 – Confirm completion of pre-requisite

Module 2: Managing Application Traffic

Module 3: Traffic Manager deployment options
Demo 1 – Launching the Demo System and Navigating the Traffic Manager UI

Module 4: Clustering

Module 5: Hosting Multiple Services

Module 6: Layer 7 Protocol Support

Module 7: Managing Nodes and Failover

Day 2

Module 8: TrafficScript fundamentals
Demo 2 – Applying a TrafficScript Rule

Module 9: Web Content Compression and Caching
Demo 3 – Benefits of Caching

Module 10: Session Persistence and SSL Features
Demo 4 – SSL Offload

Chapter 11: Bandwidth Management and Service Features
Demo 5 – Traffic Generation and Performance Improvements

Chapter 12: Traffic Manager Troubleshooting
Demo 6 – Problem Solving with TrafficScript

Chapter 13: Services Director

Chapter 14: Web Application Firewall

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Prerequisites

  • Must have experience with the TCP/IP protocol suite.
  • Must have familiarity with the Linux operating system.
  • Students should understand load balancing principles.
  • Students should understand common application protocols such as HTTP and SMTP.
  • Students must bring a laptop computer.
  • Students must have access to a Linux instance of their choosing, either running locally on their laptops or remotely accessible over the Internet.
  • The Linux system must be preconfigured with bind, Docker, Terraform and the vADC Demo files. The Demo files and configuration instructions can be downloaded from: https://pulsesecure.net/vadc-demo-download
  • At the beginning of the first day of training all class attendees will be required to start their configured Linux systems and show the configured components to the Instructor.

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