In this Administering Meraki MS / Catalyst Switches 4-day Cisco Official course provides a comprehensive, end-to-end overview of Cisco Meraki switching and Catalyst integration, guiding learners from foundational Meraki concepts through advanced configuration, monitoring, security, and automation. Participants begin by understanding the value of Cisco Meraki, its product portfolio, and support model, followed by a detailed examination of Meraki and Catalyst licensing options, including co-termination, per-device, subscription licensing, and migration from Cisco DNA licensing into the Meraki Dashboard. The curriculum then explores the full Meraki switching portfolio, including Layer 2 and Layer 3 access switches, aggregation switches, and supported Catalyst platforms, along with power, accessories, and deployment considerations.
As the course progresses, learners gain hands-on experience configuring and operating switches through the Meraki Dashboard, covering organizational and network-wide settings, administrator roles, inventory management, templates, group policies, switch provisioning, firmware management, staged upgrades, port configuration, link aggregation, and traffic mirroring. Routing and multicast topics are addressed in depth, including static routing, VRRP warm spare configurations, Layer 3 switching, and OSPF, ensuring students can design resilient and scalable wired networks. Dedicated modules focus on monitoring and managing Catalyst switches in both cloud-monitoring and fully managed modes, providing visibility into topology, traffic, applications, and switch health from a unified dashboard.
The course further emphasizes security, identity, and operational excellence through coverage of switch security features, port access control, segmentation using group policy ACLs, and deep integration with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), RADIUS, and Meraki Adaptive Policy. Advanced topics include IPv6 design and deployment, comprehensive monitoring of switches and clients, structured troubleshooting workflows using logs, packet captures, alerts, and analysis tools, and automation through Meraki APIs and action batches. Through practical labs and real-world scenarios, students develop the skills required to design, secure, operate, troubleshoot, and automate Cisco Meraki and Catalyst switching environments at enterprise scale.
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