Course Overview
This training will enable Cisco/Splunk Partners to sell Cisco ThousandEyes and Splunk solutions, as well as enabling engineers to Install, Configure and Run Cisco ThousandEyes and Splunk solutions together as an Observability solution for Customers.
Who should attend
- Cisco & Splunk Customers
- Cisco & Splunk Partners
- Network administrators
- Network engineers
- Network managers
- System engineers
Prerequisites
There are no formal pre-requisites to take this class, but the knowledge and skills required are as follows:
- 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 courses may help you meet these prerequisites:
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain observability concepts and position Cisco ThousandEyes and Splunk within an observability strategy.
- Describe the architecture and key capabilities of Cisco ThousandEyes.
- Deploy and manage Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agents.
- Configure BGP, network, DNS, voice, and web-layer tests in ThousandEyes.
- Deploy and configure Endpoint Agents for end-user monitoring.
- Perform system administration tasks within the ThousandEyes platform.
- Use ThousandEyes to troubleshoot network and application performance issues.
- Configure alerts, dashboards, and monitoring solutions in ThousandEyes.
- Understand the fundamentals of the Splunk platform and SPL searches (optional module).
- Integrate Cisco ThousandEyes data with Splunk.
- Ingest and work with ThousandEyes telemetry and test results in Splunk.
- Use Splunk to search, analyze, and navigate ThousandEyes data.
- Apply ThousandEyes monitoring and troubleshooting data within Splunk workflows.
- Understand the fundamentals of Splunk ITSI and its role in observability operations.
Outline: Cisco ThousandEyes with Splunk Integration (CTESI)
- Course roadmap - Lecture
- Module 1: Observability, Foundations and Platform Positioning - Lecture
- Module 2: Cisco ThousandEyes Essentials - Lecture
- Introduction to Cisco ThousandEyes - Lecture
- Schedule a Test - Lab
- Enterprise Agents Deployment - Lecture
- Deploy Enterprise Agent - Lab
- BGP, Network, DNS, and Voice Tests Configuration - Lecture
- Configure Network, DNS, and Voice Tests - Lab
- Web Layer Tests Configuration - Lecture
- Configure Web Server Tests - Lab
- Configure Transaction Tests - Lab
- Endpoint Agent - Lecture
- Deploy and Configure an Endpoint Agent - Lab
- System Administration - Lecture
- Configure Account Administration - Lab
- Network Troubleshooting - Lecture
- Utilize Device Layers - Lab
- Alerts and Dashboards Configuration - Lecture
- Configure Alerts - Lab
- Build a Dashboard - Lab
- Monitoring Solutions - Lecture
- Module 3: Splunk Platform Fundamentals - Lecture
- Module 4: Integration: Getting ThousandEyes Data Into Splunk - Lecture
- Module 5: Using Splunk to Navigate ThousandEyes Data - Lecture
- Splunk Power User - Lab
- Module 6: Splunk ITSI Fundamentals - Lecture