Cisco - Designing and Implementing Enterprise Network Assurance ENNA

Curriculum

• Module 1: Paltforms and Architecture 20%
• Determine agent types, such as synthetic user agent, scripting agent, and local collection agent to meet network assurance and security requirements
• Determine agent location to meet network assurance and security requirements
• Describe active and passive monitoring (RFC 7276 and RFC 7799)
• Describe ThousandEyes WAN Insights
• Describe the integration between Cisco technologies, such as ThousandEyes, Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, Catalyst Center, Webex Control Hub, Meraki, and Endpoint Agent deployment through Secure Client
• Describe setting a metric baseline
• Select the integration type, such as API, alerting thresholds, open telemetry, and ITSM for the requested data
• Select a Cisco network assurance platform based on business requirements, such as application communication, user experience, web, and events

• Module 2: Data Collection Implementation 25%
• Configure enterprise agent on application servers and network infrastructure devices, including dedicated devices
• Describe endpoint agent deployment at scale across the enterprise on end-user devices (Windows, Mac, and Room OS)
• Configure tests using tools, such as ThousandEyes and Meraki Insights
• Network such as TCP/UDP, network characteristics, loss, jitter, and latency
• DNS 2.3.c Voice
• Web
• Configure endpoint agent tests in ThousandEyes
• Describe the purpose, implementation, and limitations of synthetic web tests
• Implement common web authentication methods, such as basic, digest, bearer tokens, OAuth, SAML, and SSO when testing web applications

• Module 3: Data Analysis 30%
• Diagnose network issues, such as packet loss, congestion, routing, and jitter using collected data
• Diagnose end-device network issues, such as issues with a default gateway, local network, DNS server, proxy, VPN gateway, wireless, and real-time streaming using collected data
• Diagnose web application performance issues using collected data such as browser waterfalls
• Identify security issues, such as DDoS attacks, DNS hijacking, BGP hijacking, and route leaking affecting network performance
• Module 4: Insights and Alerts 25%
• Configure alert rules based on network conditions, such as TCP protocol behavior, congestion, error counters, performance, throughput, state of BGP routing table, internet insights, MPLS, VPN, NetFlow, SNMP, and syslog
• Configure alert rules that affect the end-user experience, such as CPU utilization, connectivity types (wired to wireless, Wi-Fi), browser behavior, and VPN
• Select deliverables or metrics such as dashboard and alerts for IT operations, production support, app/dev teams, and executives
• Validate alert configuration and functionality
• Recommend optimization for network capacity planning, such as topology and configuration changes, and QoS based on data interpretation

   

The ENNA ILT course also now includes a total of 13 Discovery Labs:

1. Troubleshoot the Health of Network Devices (was missing)

2. Explore Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Assurance

3. Schedule a Test

4. Deploy Enterprise Agent

5. Configure Network, DNS, and Voice Tests 6. Configure Web Tests

7. Deploy and Configure an Endpoint Agent

8. Configure Account Administration

9. Examine Internet Insights 10. Configure Alerts

11. Build a Dashboard

12. Implementing Network Assurance with Cisco Meraki (was: Enable Alerts and Configure Monitoring and Reporting)

13. Examine Cisco Meraki Insight