Infoblox Courses and Materials

Essentials Courses

Course

Level

Release

DNS/DHCP Fundamentals Workshop

Essential

1.0

The Infoblox DNS/DHCP Fundamentals Workshop is an intensive one-day hands-on technical course required to understanding the DNS and DHCP protocols and best practices for configuring NIOS(formerly DNSone) appliances.

DNS 1: DNS Basics & Record Types (20 min)

Essential

4.0

A technical overview of how DNS works including table format, queries, domains zones, name servers, with a review of the major record types.

DNS 2: DNS Name Resolution, Master, Slaves, Times, & Transfers (20 min)

Essential

4.0

A technical overview of DNS messages and headers, queries, timers, and zone transfers.

DNS 3: Reverse Lookup & DNS Security (20 min)

Essential

4.0

A technical overview of reverse IP address lookups, security including BIND, Views, Poisoning and Bogus responses, and the wise use of Delegated and Resolving name servers.

DNS 4: DNS Best Practices & Troubleshooting (20 min)

Essential

4.0

A technical overview of best practices for Enterprise DNS, Common configuration errors, detection, debugging, and resolution.

DHCP 1: DHCP Basics, Pool Management, & DDNS (10 min)

Essential

4.0

A technical overview of how DHCP works, DHCP messages, leases of IP addresses to clients, and Dynamic DNS.

DHCP 2: Troubleshooting DHCP Conversations and Options (15 min)

Essential

4.0

A technical introduction to DHCP troubleshooting including common debugging tools and issues regarding subnetting, reliability and DHCP options.

NIOS Installation Tutorial

Essential

4.0

The Infoblox NIOS Installation Tutorial is an instructional tutorial designed for an Infoblox SE to train Channel Partner SEs to perform a simple installation including build a small Grid, import of DNS, DHCP & IPAM, and TFTP data, and perform a basic setup of all services including DNS, DHCP & IPAM, TFTP, RADIUS Proxy, and NTP.

Advanced Courses

Course

Level

Release

NIOS Configuration Workshop

Advanced

4.2

The Infoblox NIOS Configuration Workshop is a comprehensive two-day instructor-led course that builds a working knowledge of how to configure and manage Infoblox network appliances running NIOS. Forward and reverse mapping zones, network and zone creation, DNS Anycast, DHCP ranges, fixed addresses, grid management, system & protocol level monitoring, and system level management will all be covered.

NIOS Operations Workshop

Advanced

4.2

The Infoblox NIOS Operations Workshop is a one-day instructor-led course for Network Operators that builds a working knowledge how to operate Infoblox network appliances running NIOS previously configured by a Network Administrator. Forward and reverse mapping zones, network and zone creation, DHCP ranges, fixed addresses will all be covered.

WinConnect Configuration Workshop

Advanced

1.0

The Infoblox WinConnect Configuration Workshop is a one-day instructor-led course that builds a working knowledge of how to operate Infoblox IPAM WinConnect for Microsoft Environments

NIOS 4.2r4 Release Update (9min)

Advanced

This web-based tutorial contains an overview of the new features contained in NIOS 4.2r4 releases.

NIOS 4.2r3 Release Update (6min)

Advanced

4.2

This web-based tutorial contains an overview of the new features contained in NIOS 4.2r3 releases.

RADIUS Protocol (20 Minutes)

Advanced

1.0

This web-based tutorial presents an introduction to RADIUS Protocol necessary to understand before configuring NIOS.

RADIUS Configuration Basics (7 Minutes)

Advanced

4.0

This web-based tutorial demonstrates how to configure NIOS for use with a RADIUS Network Address Server (NAS).

DHCP Failover - Basics (11 min)

Advanced

4.0

What is DHCP Failover, why use it, and how does it work? You'll learn how to configure DHCP Failover under NIOS 4.0 and some common DHCP Failover issues that you may see.

NIOS 4.2r1 & r2 Release Update (11 min)

Advanced

4.2

This web-based tutorial contains an overview of the new features contained in NIOS 4.2r1 & r2 releases.

Expert Courses

Course

Level

Release

NIOS Expert Workshop for Support Engineers

Expert

4.1

The Infoblox NIOS Expert Workshop for Support Engineers builds on the NIOS Configuration Workshop intended for those seeking to become Certified Infoblox Support Engineers (CISE). It will provide support engineers sufficient time with the product to gain in-depth working and troubleshooting skills with NIOS, DNS and DHCP architecture, and implementation .

NIOS Expert Workshop for Professional Service Engineer

Expert

4.1

The Infoblox NIOS Expert Workshop for Professional Service Engineers builds on the NIOS Configuration Workshop intended for those seeking to become Certified Infoblox Professional Service (CIPS) Engineers. It shows how to perform the basic analysis needed to determine how many appliance will be needed, what re-design may be needed to bring the customer infrastructure to a maintainable, best practice state, and determine requirements to migrate to the NIOS platform.

NIOS API Workshop

Expert

4.1

This intensive 2-day hands-on expert course briefly reviews the Perl programming language before presenting the NIOS Script pack and API. Participants will learn to modify existing scripts to create custom behavior, then migrate data from Microsoft and Unix environments to a Grid of Infoblox network service appliances.