What you’ll learn
Training overview
Objectives
After taking this course, you should be able to:
- Describe the Cisco ThousandEyes solution and its high-level use cases
- Identify different types of ThousandEyes agents and supported tests
- Describe different Enterprise Agent deployment options, requirements, and procedures for agent deployment
- Describe different ThousandEyes test types
- Compare Thousand Eyes web layer tests
- Describe the role of an Endpoint Agent
- Deploy and Configure an Endpoint Agent
- Utilize ThousandEyes when performing the root cause analysis
- Discuss the challenges that ThousandEyes Internet Insights can address
- Describe the role and configuration of default and custom alerts
- Distinguish between usability of dashboards and reports
- Utilize ThousandEyes to monitor solutions end-to-end
- Describe how to perform system administration
Prerequisites
Before enrolling in this course, you should have:
- Basic understanding of network fundamentals
- Basic understanding of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), HTTP, SSL, and DNS protocol
The following Cisco course may help you meet these prerequisites:
Outline
- Introducing Cisco ThousandEyes
- Introducing Cisco ThousandEyes Agents and Tests
- Deploying Enterprise Agents
- Describing ThousandEyes Routing, Network DNS, and Voice Tests
- Describing Cisco ThousandEyes Web Tests
- Introducing Endpoint Agents
- Deploying Endpoint Agents
- Troubleshooting with Cisco ThousandEyes
- Using Internet Insights
- Configuring Alerts
- Customizing Dashboards and Reports
- Monitoring Solutions
- Administrating the System
Lab outline
- Schedule a Test
- Deploy Enterprise Agent
- Configure Network, DNS, and Voice Tests
- Configure Web Tests
- Deploy and Configure an Endpoint Agent
- Examine Internet Insights
- Configure Alerts
- Build a Dashboard and Report
- Account Administration
