Cisco Tetration Power Workshop (TA-PWS)

Description

Tetration is a powerful big data analytics engine that provides insight into your network. Real time visibility enables a deeper understanding of end-to-end process flows and network performance. Tetration using machine learning can perform Application Dependency Mapping to build dynamic policies and automate enforcement thus providing a zero-trust security model. Tetration is capable of supporting hybrid Data Centre environments using a choice of deployment models

Objective

This session will provide attendee with an overview of the features and functionality of Tetration. Operational concepts will be reinforced with hands on lab exercises.

Target Audience

The primary audience for this course is as follows:

  • Partners and customers
  • IT individuals in a post and presales role
  • IT individuals involved in an evaluation, recommendation or decision making capacity
  • Application architects and developers
  • Network architects and engineers
  • IT security personnel
  • Operations and support engineers

Suggested Pre-requisites

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

  • Base understanding of network and application operational dynamics
  • Appreciation of network and application monitoring

Duration

2 days

Workshop Outline

Module 1: Scene setting and DC Challenges – A need for Tetration

  • DC Challenges
  • Lack of Visibility
  • Network Performance
  • Security

Module 2: Analytics Overview

  • Busting the Acronyms
  • Telemetry
  • Big Data
  • Machine Learning

Module 3: Tetration Product Overview

  • What is Tetration
  • Visibility and Application Insight
  • Network Insight
  • Policy Model
  • Compliance
  • Enforcement
  • Tetration Platforms

Module 4: Tetration – First looks

  • Accessing the GUI
  • Help and documentation
  • Tenants, Scopes and VRFs
  • Workspaces and applications
  • Policy and Policy Views
  • Flows
  • Inventory
  • Lab
    • First looks and Explore

Module 5: Agents and Sensors

  • Agent Overview
  • Software Agents
  • Installing Software Agents
  • Hardware Agents
  • Data Collection
  • Collection Rules
  • Lab
    • Install Software agent

Module 6: Tetration Components

  • Architectural Overview
  • Front End
  • Compute (Data Cleaning and Analytics)
  • Storage
  • Tetration Data Analysis

Module 7: ADM and Policy

  • Application Structure
  • Tetration ADM
  • ADM configuration
  • Post ADM Run
  • Cluster View
  • App View
  • Editing Policy
  • Provided Services
  • Policy Analysis
  • Policy Enforcement
  • Lab
    • ADM run and Policy Modification
    • Policy Enforcement

Module 8: Flows and Inventory

  • Flow Details
  • Tags and Annotations
  • Inventory details and searching
  • Packages and Process
  • Lab
    • Flow Search
    • Inventory Search

Module 9: Network Insight

  • Network Performance Monitoring & Diagnostics (NPMD)
  • ACI integration
  • ERSPAN
  • Lab
    • NPMD Explore

Module 10: Tetration Tools – (Optional Extension)

  • Tetration API
  • Tetration Apps
    • Neighbourhood Graph
  • Kafka and Streaming Telemetry
  • Bring Your Own Data
  • Lab (optional)