Detailed Course Outline
Module 1: Visibility Design Concepts
- Pervasive Visibility
- Challenges to Visibility
- Performance Challenges
- Understanding Traffic Sources
- Monitoring Tools and Moore’s Law
- Basic Monitoring Challenges
Module 2: Gigamon Visibility Platform
- Architecture and Components
- Understanding Flow-Mapping
- Packet Sharing
- Deploying for Out-of-Band Tools
- Deploying for Redundancy
- Deploying for Asymmetric Routing
- GigaSMART Overview
- HidePacket Transformation
- GigaVUE-HC2 Product Overview
Module 3: Gigamon Deployment Architectures
- Centralizing Tools
- Remote / Branch office
- Tool Rails
- Lights-out Operation
- Deploying Gigamon Visibility Platform in Clusters
- Scaling to Accommodate High Traffic Volume
- Accommodating Traffic Volumes: Filtering
- Accommodating Traffic Volumes: Load Sharing
- Accommodating Traffic Volumes: Load Balancing
- Scaling to Accommodate for Low Traffic Volume
Module 4: Introducing Riverbed SteelCentral & NetProfiler
- SteelCentral Network Monitoring Overview
- SteelCentral solution overview
- Network instrumentation
- Host groups & definitions
- Asset discovery & inventory
- Reporting & performance metrics
- Interactive dashboards
- Deploying SteelCentral Products
- SteelCentral deployment planning
- Sizing & specifications
- SteelCentral NetShark, SteelCentral Packet Analyzer & AppResponse
- Introduction & installation
- Integrating with SteelCentral Packet Analyzer
- Transaction analysis
- Wireshark packet analysis
Module 5: Riverbed SteelCentral with Gigamon out-of-band Deployment
- Solution Overview
- Use Cases
- Architectural Overview
- Components and Version Compatibility
- Network architecture
- Riverbed SteelCentral NetShark & Packet Analyzer Configuration
- Riverbed SteelCentral AppResponse Configuration
- GigaVUE-HC2 Configuration
Labs
- Designing a visibility architecture with Gigamon solutions
- Designing a visibility architecture with Riverbed SteelCentral management platform.
- Designing a visibility architecture with Riverbed SteelCentral Performance Management tools
- Cisco FirePOWER configuration for a joint out of band deployment solution
- Gigamon configuration for a joint inline deployment solution
- Testing and verification of a joint inline deployment solution using Riverbed SteelCentral and Gigamon