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Gigamon Foundation: Learn the Essentials to Start on the Road to Success (GFND)

The Gigamon GigaSECURE® Security Delivery Platform is the essential element in your organization’s security strategy. The Gigamon Foundation 2-day course is the first building block in learning how to implement and configure the GigaSECURE platform in your enterprise.

Through comprehensive discussions, real-world use cases and practical hands-on labs, this course covers the foundational skills needed by security and network teams to understand how to initially configure Gigamon products and GigaSMART® features. The course will help you accelerate deployment and the expected ROI for security solutions that incorporate the GigaSECURE Security Delivery Platform.

About the course

Prerequisites:

The knowledge and skills that the learner should have before attending this course are as follows:

  • Data security protection and prevention fundamentals
  • Fundamentals of route switch technologies

Course Objectives:

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:   

  • The different Gigamon product layers and how they function as part of a security solution.
  • How to plan for, and ultimately deploy, Gigamon products into your data center.
  • Different sources of traffic and how they impact your overall security solution.
  • How to install a new Gigamon GigaVUE® HC Series appliance into your network for the purpose of security monitoring.
  • How to create flow maps to help ensure that the right traffic gets to the right tool at the right time.
  • How to use GigaSMART features to improve your organization’s security posture.
Course content

Module 1: Gigamon Solution Overview

  • Gigamon Platform
  • GigaVUE FM, HC3, HC2, TA
  • Network TAPs

Module 2: Deployment, Planning and Installation of Gigamon Solution Components

  • Visibility challenges
  • Aggregate packets
  • Tunneling traffic
  • Share packets
  • Optimize traffic
  • De-duplication
  • Performance Metrics
  • Filtering
  • Flow mapping

Module 3: Understanding Traffic Sources

  • Traffic source
  • SPAN / Mirror
  • TAPs

Module 4: Preparing for a Gigamon Solution Deployment

  • Port count
  • GigaSMART
  • GigaVUE H Series
  • GigaVUE TA Series
  • SSL decryption
  • Module requirements

Module 5: Gigamon Solution Installation and Initial Configuration

  • Installation and configuration
  • Cable management
  • CLI commands
  • Port setup

Module 6: Configuring Clustering

  • Clustering
  • Checklist
  • Plan the cluster
  • Port considerations
  • Diagram the cluster

Module 7: The Principles of Flow Mapping

  • Network packet broker basics
  • Filtering
  • Flow mapping

Module 8: GigaSMART Overview

  • GigaSMART traffic intelligence
  • GigaSMART flow and session level intelligence
  • SSL Decryption
  • SSL functionality
Who Should Attend

The primary audience for this course is as follows:

  • Security, networking and cloud architects, administrators and operations staff who are Gigamon customers, but new to Gigamon products.
  • Gigamon partners who focus on security and networking and who are using Gigamon products for the first time.