Proteus Administrator Training

Audience

This course is appropriate for individuals employed as DNS, DHCP and Network administrators as well as other support staff within the IPAM infrastructure.

Pre-Requisite

The entry criteria for this course include: general networking concepts, a basic understanding of TCP/IP, the Internet, firewalls, strong knowledge of DNS/DHCP and a working knowledge of Adonis appliances.

Course Materials

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Create and deploy DNS and DHCP configurations by using the browser interface
• Create appropriate configurations
• Implement and maintain IP space
• Configure and apply Network Templates
• Configure Resource Records, Zones, DNS Views and DNS options
• Configure and implement DHCP Ranges and Options
• Configure Match Classes, MAC Pools and MAC Authentication
• Manage TFTP services
• Understand and configure DHCP Failover
• Add and deploy Configurations to Adonis Servers
• Manage and monitor Users, Audit trails, Events and Objects
• Use the Proteus Data Checker
• Design, apply and utilize Object Tags
• Use the Network Discovery and Reporting features
• Understand the Proteus Security Model
• Configure and manage Crossover High Availability (XHA)
• Manage servers with the Proteus and Adonis Administration Consoles
• Configure and implement Proteus Disaster Recovery

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Proteus

This module introduces Proteus in the broad sense of its overall function as an IP Address Management solution.

Module 2: Proteus Interface

This module guides the user through some of the common features of the Proteus browser interface including:

• Viewing the Home Page
• The Navigation Toolbar
• Tasks, Favorites, Configurations and Object Tags
• The Search Tool

Module 3: IPv4 Modeling

This module introduces the concept of IP modeling and the modeling capabilities built into Proteus. The student will:

• Understand how Proteus implements IP network services
• Understand how Proteus uses IP blocks, networks and addresses
• Use Proteus’ IP Modeling and Partitioning tools

Module 4: IPv6

This module covers Proteus’ IPv6 capabilities. The student will:

• Understand how Proteus supports IPv6
• Create and manage IPv6 Local Address Space
• Create IPv6 Networks
• Create and manage IPv6 Unicast Address Space
• Assign, move and clear IPv6 Address Assignment

This module introduces the concept and use of Network Templates. The student will:

• Understand the purpose of network templates
• Create network templates
• Assign options to IP networks using network templates
• Create a new network based on network templates
• Link, update and unlink a network template from a network

The module introduces DNS configuration in a Proteus environment. The student will:

• Create Views, and Domain structures
• Create various Resource Record types
• Add DNS Internal and External Servers
• Configure DNS Deployment Roles
• Add DNS Deployment Options
• Configure the Start of Authority Record

This module covers more advanced DNS configuration within Proteus, including the ability to:

• Configure BIND Views
• Configure Active Directory integration
• Configure DNS Forwarding, DNS Forwarding Zones, Stub Zones and ENUM Zones
• Configure NAPTR records
• Configure and implement Zone Templates
• Use the Live Zone Import Tool

Module 8: Configuring DHCP

This module introduces DHCP within Proteus. The student will learn how to:

• Configure DHCP servers and deployment roles
• Configure DHCP ranges and reservations
• View and manage assigned leases
• Configure IPv4 history compression
• Add Deployment Options and Vendor Profiles
• Configure Match Classes
• Configure Shared Networks
• Create DHCP Failover configurations
• Configure MAC pools
• Configure DHCP Alerts
• Configure MAC Authentication
• Add support for TFTP services

Module 9: Deployment and Servers

This module introduces the concept of Deployment to DNS/DHCP servers. The student will learn how to:

• Add Adonis servers as server objects in Proteus
• Understand Deployment Roles
• Create a published interface for an Adonis server
• Deploy DNS and DHCP data
• Schedule deployments
• Check the status of a deployment
• Disable, replace and update Adonis servers through Proteus
• View Adonis logs through Proteus
• Use the Server Control function

Module 10: Managing Proteus

This module covers the use of the Proteus Administration Tools, including how to:

• Display system information
• Configure global settings
• Customize tables
• View Events, Transaction History and Transaction Details
• Manage Users and Groups, Access Rights and Authenticators
• Configure Data Checking
• Configure Event notification
• Configure the History archive
• Configure Object Types and User-Defined Fields
• Configure Updates

Module 11: Object Tags

This module provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement an Object Tag structure. The student will:

• Understand the purpose of Object Tagging
• Create an Object Tag structure
• Be able to tag specific objects
• Be able to view all tagged objects

Module 12: Reporting

This module introduces report generation using Proteus. The student will learn how to:

• Configure the Reporting feature in Proteus
• Use different formats available for a report
• Use the different report types that can be generated within Proteus

Module 13: Proteus Security Model

This module examines the security model that Proteus implements. The student will:

• Understand and configure Access Rights
• Understand and configure Overrides
• Configure Security Privileges
• Understand and configure History Privileges
• Understand the Proteus and Adonis firewall requirements and settings

Module 14: Network Discovery

This module provides the knowledge and skills to use the Discovery Tool. The student will:

• Understand and use the Network Discovery Tool
• Be able to create a Discovery Object
• Be able to manage the Discovery Queue

Module 15: Crossover High Availability

This module introduces the concept of High Availability. Students will be able to:

• Discuss the advantages of Crossover High Availability (XHA) services
• Create and maintain an XHA pair
• Perform an XHA Failover
• Update, repair and break an XHA cluster

Module 16: Proteus Administration Console

This module introduces the Proteus Administration Console. Students will:

• Understand the use of the Proteus Administration console
• Use the help system
• Understand Main & Configuration modes and the differences between them
• Configure various components using the Proteus Administration Console

Module 17: Adonis Administration Console

This module introduces the student to the Adonis Administration Console. Students will:

• Understand the use of the Adonis Administration Console
• Use the help system
• Understand Main & Configuration modes and the differences between them
• Configure various system components

Module 18: Proteus Database and Disaster Recovery

This module introduces the Disaster Recovery process in Proteus. Students will be able to:

• Set the Proteus database addresses
• Understand the Proteus Disaster Recovery process
• Configure database replication
• Configure the Switchover and Failover procedures