– ALE OMNISWITCH AOS 8 · LEVEL 1 · STUDY LEARNING

ALE OmniSwitch (AOS 8) configuration for security integrators BETA

A practitioner-led walkthrough of the first 90 minutes of work on a new OmniSwitch. Console connection, AAA, SSH hardening, NTP and swlog, an example VLAN scheme, port membership, LACP, Virtual Chassis with front-panel VFLs, Learned Port Security, DHCP snooping, the working and certified save workflow, and an 8-step camera-offline troubleshooting walkthrough. Animated CLI throughout. Free.

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What you will learn

This course covers the work that needs to happen on an OmniSwitch the day it lands on a security network deployment. Console connection, system identity, named admin accounts, NTP, swlog, an example VLAN scheme you can adapt to whatever the customer already runs, port membership as tagged or untagged, LACP link aggregation, Virtual Chassis with front-panel VFLs, Learned Port Security, DHCP snooping, the working and certified save workflow, and the troubleshooting flow when a camera goes offline.

Every command was validated against ALE OmniSwitch AOS 8 documentation before being included. Sources include the AOS 8 Switch Management Guide, the CLI Reference Guide, the AOS 8.x Start Guide, and field examples from the consulting work.

What makes AOS different

OmniSwitch AOS has its own conventions. The course covers each one explicitly so the syntax does not surprise anyone on the first console session.

  • Single-shell CLI, no privilege-escalation step; admin rights from login.
  • One-line VLAN creation, create / name / enable in a single command.
  • Port membership model, vlan X members port Y untagged | tagged rather than mode-based access or trunk.
  • Port notation, chassis/slot/port; the first digit is the chassis ID in a Virtual Chassis.
  • Two-step save, write memory then copy working certified.
  • Front-panel VFL stacking, Virtual Chassis uses front-panel SFPs as VFLs, with the flexibility and port-budget trade-offs that come with that.
  • Learned Port Security (LPS), the AOS MAC-limiting feature on access ports.
  • Spanning-tree edge ports, spantree port 1/1 admin-edge enable plus BPDU guard.

Course outline

PART 01

Get Connected

Console with the ALE grey RJ45 cable, AOS single-shell CLI, system identity, named admin accounts, AAA, SSH hardening, disabling the cleartext services that ship enabled.

5 lessons + checkpoint
PART 02

Time and Visibility

NTP with the two-step configuration (servers, then enable client), swlog remote logging to the syslog collector.

2 lessons
PART 03

VLANs and Ports

AOS one-line VLAN creation, an example VLAN scheme (99/100/101/102/666) you can adapt to a customer scheme, port membership as tagged or untagged, blackhole VLAN 666 for unused ports.

4 lessons + checkpoint
PART 04

LACP and Virtual Chassis

linkagg lacp agg and linkagg lacp port actor admin-key model, Virtual Chassis with front-panel VFLs, master election, EMP interface.

4 lessons
PART 05

Hardening and Save

Learned Port Security, loopback detection, DHCP snooping with IP source filtering, the working and certified directory workflow.

4 lessons
PART 06

Troubleshooting

AOS show commands practitioners actually use, plus an 8-step camera-offline walkthrough using AOS-specific tools.

2 lessons

Course details

  • Level, Level 1 (beginner)
  • Length, ~90 minutes
  • Lessons, 21 across 6 parts
  • Knowledge checks, 8 total (2 per checkpoint, 4 in the final)
  • CLI animations, 16 scripts
  • Cost, Free
  • Author, Hans Study
  • Status, BETA

Ready to start?

The course opens at lesson 01 and steps through all 21 lessons in order. Use the prev / next buttons to move between lessons. Score is tracked on the bottom bar and a completion certificate appears at the end.

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