The Designing and Implementing Enterprise Network Assurance (ENNA) training is designed to enrich and expand your knowledge and skills in the realm of enterprise network assurance and management. This training collectively encompasses a broad spectrum of network assurance and monitoring aspects. You will overview different Cisco assurance products, Cisco ThousandEyes, and Meraki Insight. You will acquire the skills not just to utilize these solutions effectively, but also to deploy, configure, and manage them in your network environments. This includes learning about the initial setup, fine-tuning for optimal performance, and conducting day-to-day operations that ensure continuous, seamless network assurance.
Who Should Enroll
- Network administrators
- System engineers
- Network analysts
- NOC operators
- IT professionals
How you’ll benefit
This training will help you:
- Position different assurance products from Cisco portfolio
- Install, configure, and manage Cisco ThousandEyes solution
- Utilize Cisco ThousandEyes to perform network troubleshooting
- Configure and leverage Meraki Insight and available dashboard tools to manage network assurance in Meraki environments
COURSE OBJECTIVES
After taking this training, you should be able to:
- Describe enterprise network assurance
- Describe how to monitor health and performance with Cisco Catalyst Center Assurance
- Introduce Cisco AppDynamics
- Introduce Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Assurance
- Introduce Cisco ThousandEyes
- Describe different Enterprise Agent deployment options, requirements, and procedures for agent deployment
- Describe different ThousandEyes test types
- Compare ThousandEyes web layer tests
- Describe, deploy, and configure an Endpoint Agent
- Describe how to perform system administration
- Utilize ThousandEyes when performing the root cause analysis
- Describe Internet Insights
- Explain alerts and dashboards configuration
- Explain monitoring solutions
- Describe Cisco Meraki Network Assurance
- Showcase Cisco Meraki Insights
Learning Path Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this training. However, the knowledge and skills you are recommended to have before attending this training are:
- Basic understanding of network fundamentals
- Basic understanding of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and Domain Name System (DNS) protocol
- Basic familiarity with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
- Basic familiarity with Cisco Catalyst Center
- Basic familiarity with Cisco Meraki
COURSE OUTLINE
- Enterprise Network Assurance Overview
- Introduction to Cisco Catalyst Center Assurance
- Introduction to Cisco AppDynamics
- Introduction to Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Assurance
- Introduction to Cisco ThousandEyes
- Enterprise Agents Deployment
- BGP, Network, DNS, and Voice Tests Configuration
- Web Tests Configuration
- Endpoint Agent
- System Administration
- Network Troubleshooting with Cisco ThousandEyes
- Internet Insights
- Alerts and Dashboards Configuration
- Monitoring Solutions
- Cisco Meraki Network Assurance
- Cisco Meraki Insight