In this post, I'll tell you about my journey to the HCIE and HCSI certification from Huawei. Information about my preparations and my approach for the Written, Lab and Interview.

This template provides a typical basic configuration of a Huawei WLAN Controller (AC) based on the VRP operating system. You can use this as a basis for your devices and customize them according to your requirements. It is a text file that can be copied to the WLAN AC via CLI (console, SSH, telnet, etc.). 

Features

• Syslog and SNMP
• DNS
• SSID PSK and via Radius
• AP group
• Automatic AP firmware upgrade
• Disable unnecessary services
• Timezone with daylight saving and NTP
• AAA with TACACS and local fallback
• Radius configuration for authentication
• Many more

This template provides a typical basic configuration of a Huawei BGP router based on the VRP operating system. You can use this as a basis for your devices and customize them according to your requirements. It is a text file that can be copied to the router via CLI (console, SSH, telnet, etc.). 

Features

• Syslog and SNMP
• DNS
• Automatic configuration backup to SFTP server
• Disable unnecessary services
• Timezone with daylight saving and NTP
• AAA with TACACS and local fallback
• BGP configuration with upstream provider
• IPv4 and IPv6
• Many more

Tested with

• NE20E-S2F

This template provides a typical basic configuration of a Huawei switch based on the YunShan operating system. You can use this as a basis for your devices and customize them according to your requirements. It is a text file that can be copied to the switch via CLI (console, SSH, telnet, etc.). 

Features

• Syslog and SNMP
• DNS
• Automatic configuration backup to SFTP server
• Disable unnecessary services
• Timezone with daylight saving and NTP
• DHCP snooping
• AAA with TACACS and local fallback
• LACP channel uplink
• Access port template
• Many more

Tested with

• S5735-L8P4X-QA-V2

Anyone who is certified by Huawei must regularly undergo a recertification to ensure that it remains valid. This article describes how long the certifications are valid for and how the validity can be checked.

This template provides a typical basic configuration of a Huawei switch based on the VRP operating system. You can use this as a basis for your devices and customize them according to your requirements. It is a text file that can be copied to the switch via CLI (console, SSH, telnet, etc.). 

Features

• Syslog and SNMP
• DNS
• Automatic configuration backup to FTP server
• Disable unnecessary services
• Timezone with daylight saving and NTP
• DHCP snooping
• AAA with TACACS and local fallback
• LACP channel uplink
• Access port template
• Many more

Tested with

• S5720-12TP-PWR-LI-AC

IPv6 is becoming more and more widespread and companies need to think about how they want to implement IPv6. This IPv6 concept guideline provides some ideas and hints on various IPv6 topics and also an example of an IPv6 adressing plan.