DX NetOps Installation and Configuration

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

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 backup up critical databases and files in order to restore performance data and DX NetOps Portal settings in the event of a failure, upgrade, or server migration. Hear how you can:

• Define the DX NetOps Performance Management databases and system files to backup

• Provide recommendations for the backup processes for the different components

• Define how to restore the backups

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

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 backup and restore critical Spectrum databases and files in order to prepare for upgrades and protect against human error and hardware failures. Topics include:

• Best practices for Spectrum database backups

• Configure automated and manual backups of the SpectroSERVER database

• Restore the SpectroSERVER database

• and more!

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 how to back up and restore DX NetOps Network Assurance (VNA) configurations to prepare for upgrades or migrations, and protect against human error and hardware failures. Topics include:

• Back up the VNA configurations stored in a MySQL database

• Back up the VNA plug-in templates stored in a directory on the VNA host

• Restore the VNA configurations stored in a MySQL database

• Restore the VNA plug-in templates stored in a directory on the VNA host

Learn the steps to triage and investigate DX NetOps Virtual Network Assurance (VNA) issues in order to resolve issues, or gather preliminary information to hand off to next-level support and product engineers.

Learn to integrate AppNeta with DX NetOps to maintain full visibility into network resources, regardless of location or ownership. Topics include:

• Generating an AppNeta API access token for use with VNA integration

• Configuring AppNeta to send SNMP trap notifications to DX NetOps OneClick

• Integrating AppNeta with DX NetOps Portal with a VNA plug-in

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