Cisco Nexus Dashboard and Nexus Dashboard Insights – Day2 operations (1 day)

Course Overview

This course will discover the Cisco datacentre Nexus Dashboard (ND) and Nexus Dashboard Insights (NDI) products.

The primary focus of the course will be looking at Telemetry gained from ACI and view in NDI.

This will be a one-day presentation with a combination of lecture and demonstrations in a Webex and remote access format. Demonstrations will be interwoven into theory sections.  Labs will be provided as an optional component that will allow participants to explore NDI after the Webex event.

Target Audience

This technical course is intended for:

  • Network designers and architects
  • Partner and customer network professionals
  • Network Operational and support personnel

Pre-Requisite Knowledge

Before commencing this class, you should have an understanding of:

  • Cisco networking – L2 and L3 Concepts
  • Appreciation of role of Nexus 9K Switch
  • Basic understanding of Nexus OS (NxOS)
  • Basic Understanding of ACI

Duration

1 day

Module 1 – Solution Overview

  • Drivers and Challenges
  • Cisco Product overview and positioning
  • Use Cases

 

Module 2 – Platform overview

  • Apps and Cisco App Centre overview
  • Nexus Dashboard overview

 

  Demonstration Objectives 1

  • Nexus Dashboard
  • ND services
  • Browse app store

 

Module 3 – Telemetry Overview

  • NX9k software telemetry overview
  • NX9k hardware telemetry overview

 

Module 4 – ACI Setup and NDI integration

  • Details of ACI mgmt. Tenant setup for NDI integration
  • NDI Site Groups and ACI association

 

  Demonstration Objectives 2

  • Explore ACI setup
  • ND sites

 

Module 5 –Network Dashboard Insights setup and operations

  • Features Overview
  • GUI overview and Dashboard
  • Snapshot and time selection
  • Details of Nodes, interface, resources and environment
  • Anomalies, Alerts and Event Analysis
  • Bug scan
  • Compliance and Assurance
  • Natural language Interactive Explore
  • Log Collector
  • Delta Analysis and Change Management
  • Endpoints and traffic Flow
  • Browsing resources and environment

Demonstration Objectives 3

  • Explore Key features in NDI and operations

Labs

  • After presentation session Lab access will be available for 2 days to allow participants to Explore Key features in NDI.