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Cisco ThousandEyes Test Drive (TETD)

This course, ThousandEyes Test Drive, will help you understand and learn the ThousandEyes platform. This course provides an overview and hands-on activities necessary to successfully realize the value of ThousandEyes and perform outage and performance analysis by leveraging testing and correlating test output.

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About the course

 Prerequisites:

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

  • Knowledge of cloud and (virtual) data center architecture and networking concepts
  • High-level familiarity with basic network protocols and applications
  • Familiarity with common application delivery methods

Course Objectives:

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

  • Describe the ThousandEyes Solution and Its Benefits 
  • Describe ThousandEyes Agents, Their Purpose and How to Determine Optimal Agent Placement
  • Explain the Different ThousandEyes Test Types and Their Purposes
  • Configure and Run Tests to Correlate Test Output with The Source of An Application or Network Performance Issue
Course content

Module 1: Thousand Eyes Platform Overview

  • Evolution of Application Delivery and Network Monitoring Requirements
    • The SaaS Cloud Disruption
    • The Importance of Enterprise App-to-User Visibility
  • ThousandEyes Architecture
  • Agent Types, Installation and Placement Strategy
  • Understanding Consumption Models and Pricing
  • External Integrations
    • Cisco
    • 3rd Party

Module 2: Solution Use Cases

  • ThousandEyes Cloud Adoption Use Cases
  • Use Cases for Digital Experience
  • L3 And WAN Use Cases
  • Qualifying ThousandEyes Strategic Value

Module 3: Thousand Eyes Test Types and Functionality  

  • Test Categories and Objectives  
  • Nesting of Tests
  • Data Collection
  • Relating Foundation Technologies to Test Methods and Output

Module 4: Configuring ThousandEyes Test Settings

  • Configuring Network Tests
  • Configuring Web Tests
  • Synthetic / Transaction Tests Configuration Settings
  • How To Configure DNS Testing
  • VoIP Tests and Configuration
  • BGP Testing Configuration Options

Module 5: Outage and Performance Analysis with ThousandEyes

  • Determining the Correct Test Type and Config
  • Correlating and Validating Test Results

Module 6: Monitoring, Alerting and Remediation

  • Using ThousandEyes Monitoring to Improve Digital Experience
  • Determining Actions to Take Based on Test Output 
  • Using Snapshots
  • Managing Alerts
  • Capturing Historical Data

Module 7: SD-WAN Visibility and App Performance   

  • Leveraging Visibility to Baseline App and Network Performance
  • SD-WAN Branch, SaaS, and ISP Metrics
  • Using Underlay/Overlay Visualizations to Validate Performance and Isolate Issues
  • Introduction To Full Stack Observability

Lab Outline:

Labs are designed to assure learners a whole practical experience, through the following practical activities:

Lab 1: Getting Started with ThousandEyes Platform Administration

  • Task 1: Create Organizations and Account Groups
  • Task 2: Create Users
  • Task 3:  Managing Shared Assets

Lab 2: Configuring ThousandEyes Tests and Analyzing Output

  • Task 1: Configuring Network Tests and Analyzing Test Output
  • Task 2: Configuring and Running Web and Synthetic Tests to Validate Application Performance / Customer Experience
  • Task 3: Configuring and Running DNS Tests

Lab 3: Configuring Monitoring and Alerting

  • Task 1: Configure Customer Digital Experience Monitoring
  • Task 2: Inter & Intra Cloud Monitoring
  • Task 3: Monitoring Endpoint or Employee Digital Experience
  • Task 4: Configuring Alert Criteria, Actions, and Suppression   
Who Should Attend

The primary audience for this course is as follows:

  • Systems Engineers
  • Technical Solutions Architects
  • Application Developers and Engineers
  • Technical Decision Makers