Learn how the DX NetOps solutions come together to provide deep insights into the health of enterprise networks.

• Review the overview and architecture of DX NetOps Manager
• Install DX Performance Center along with NetOps Portal
• Troubleshoot network issues
• Set up data reconciliation
• Understand fault management in networks
• Create a VPN health monitoring dashboard
• Use self-certification in NetOps

Learn the different architectural structures and components that make up each of the multiple DX NetOps solutions as well as the integration points to connect the solutions to each other. The architecture taught in this course assists with the installation process for each DX NetOps solution.

DX NetOps solutions taught in this course:

• DX NetOps Performance Management
• DX NetOps Spectrum
• DX NetOps Virtual Network Assurance
• DX NetOps Mediation Manager
• DX NetOps Network Flow Analysis

This course teaches network administrators and DX NetOps Tools administrators how to install and upgrade DX NetOps Performance Management to monitor the performance health of enterprise networks. Topics include:

• The basics of the pre-installation steps
• Download and distribution of the installation media for DX NetOps Performance Management
• Performing a standard distributed DX NetOps Performance Management installation
• How to install as the root or SUDO user
• How to implement passwordless SSH for the data repository cluster
• The basics of performing an upgrade to DX NetOps Performance Management

Learn how to configure DX NetOps to discover devices across enterprise networks in order to monitor and manage the performance health of the devices and the networks. Topics include:

• Create SNMP Profiles
• Create IP Domains
• Create Discovery Profiles
• Run Discovery Profiles and View Results
• Additional Device Discovery Administration

Learn how to create monitoring profiles to configure DX NetOps to monitor and collect performance metrics for devices across enterprise networks. Topics include:

• Defining the role of:
  • Collections
  • Metric families
  • Vendor certifications
  • Monitoring profiles
  • Metric filters
  • Component filters
• As well as creating:
  • Collections
  • Monitoring profiles with component and metric filters

Learn how to organize network items, such as devices, their components, and interfaces, into logical groups in DX NetOps Portal to control user access to network data, provide the data scope for dashboards and reports, and define the items threshold profiles monitor. Topics include:

• Group role rights
• Group design strategy
• Group rules
• Group tree hierarchy
• Group types
• Create a group
• View the Groups Change Log

Learn to create and manage users to ensure users access only the data and functionality needed for their network monitoring responsibilities. Topics include:

• Create menus
• Create roles
• Create users
• Proxy a user
• Clone a user
• Create a user template
• Create a User Administrator

Learn how to customize DX NetOps performance dashboards, context pages, and views to monitor network performance and generate reports. Topics include:

• Customizing network performance:
  • Dashboards
  • Context pages
  • Views
• Generating and scheduling performance reports
• Best practices

This course teaches how to configure and manage performance thresholds and notifications to alert network administrators of critical network performance events. Topics include:

• Creating threshold profiles to define event conditions that trigger a threshold violation
• Viewing threshold violation events
• Creating notifications to alert network teams of specific events or threshold profile violations

Learn how to install DX NetOps Spectrum as a stand-alone or distributed deployment for network fault monitoring and management. Topics include:

• Pre-installation process
• Perform a DX Spectrum stand-alone installation
• Perform a DX Spectrum distributed installation

Learn how to configure the DX NetOps Fault Monitoring solution to discover devices to create a model of the network devices and service provider connections to monitor the network for fault events. Topics include:

• Create containers to organize devices
• Create an automated discovery configuration
• Run a discovery configuration and view the results
• Manually discover and model individual devices

This course teaches how to navigate the user interface of DX NetOps Spectrum OneClick to view network topology and alarms. Topics include:

• An introduction and explanation of the features of the OneClick user interface:
  • Main toolbar
  • Navigation panel, tabs, and toolbars
  • Contents panel, tabs, and toolbars
  • Component Detail panel and tabs
  • OneClick status bar
• Customizing the OneClick user interface

Learn to use the Attribute Editor, Locater searches, and Global Collections to organize models for organizational and management purposes in Spectrum OneClick. Topics include:

• Define model attributes in bulk using the Attribute Editor
• Create and save custom searches
• Create static and dynamic Global Collections

Learn to manage the security of a DX NetOps Spectrum-monitored network by moderating user accounts and access privileges. Topics include:

• Controlling who can access the network by creating user accounts and user group
• Regulating where users have access by utilizing security communities and security strings
• Indicating what actions users and user groups can take in the network by creating and assigning roles, and setting user preferences

Learn to configure fault isolation and automate alarm notifications in DX NetOps Spectrum. Topics include:

• Describing and demonstrating fault isolation
• Configuring fault isolation settings in OneClick
• Creating policies with Spectrum Alarm Notification Manager

Learn how to install DX NetOps Virtual Network Assurance, configure plug-ins to collect network monitoring data from SDN, NFV, and SD-WAN technologies, and integrate with DX NetOps Performance Management and DX NetOps Spectrum. Topics include:

• DX NetOps Virtual Network Assurance pre-installation process
• DX NetOps Virtual Network Assurance installation process
• Plug-in configuration overview
• DX NetOps Performance Management integration
• DX NetOps Spectrum integration

Learn to configure plug-ins for DX NetOps Virtual Network Assurance in order to define how to connect to virtual networks and collect inventory and performance data. Topics include:

• Review of VNA installation and integration architecture
• Configuring plug-ins using two different methods
• Verifying plug-ins are running and collecting data
• Verifying VNA data integration with DX NetOps Portal and OneClick
• Reconfiguring a plug-in
• Review of process to submit a support ticket in the event there is an issue with a plug-in

Learn to integrate DX NetOps Performance Management and DX NetOps Spectrum to share data, combine functionality, and simplify workflows between the DX NetOps Portal and Spectrum OneClick. Topics include:

• Integrating DX NetOps Performance Management and and DX NetOps Spectrum
• Identifying the integrated workflow between the Portal and Spectrum OneClick
• Troubleshooting issues with integration

Explore the concepts of HTTPS and learn how digital cryptography secures digital communication in order to configure HTTPS for DX NetOps. Topics include:

• The definitions of important terminology, including HTTPS, TLS, and SSL
• The role of public key infrastructure in securing networks
• The basics of public key cryptography used in HTTPS
• And much more!

Learn to enable HTTPS for DX NetOps Portal in order to secure sensitive network data communications between clients and the server. Topics include:

• Creating and installing a self-signed certificate with the SSLConfig tool
• Creating a certificate signing request from an existing self-signed certificate with the Java Keytool
• Installing a certificate signed by a trusted, commercial CA using SSLConfig
• Installing a certificate signed by an internal, private CA using the Java Keytool
• Troubleshooting HTTPS for DX NetOps Portal

Learn to enable HTTPS for DX NetOps Spectrum OneClick in order to secure sensitive network data communications between clients and the server. Topics include:

• Using the Jetty keytool to generate a self-signed certificate and install the certificate in the java keystore
• Using the Jetty keytool to generate a certificate signing request
• Using the Jetty keytool to import a CA-signed certificate in the java keystore
• Configuring Spectrum and OneClick to use HTTPS by editing xml, properties, and config files
• Troubleshooting HTTPS for DX NetOps OneClick