Unified Assurance V6 – Admin Ed 1 LVC

Unified Assurance Admin Training: Product Overview

• Safe Harbor Statement
• Objectives
• The Challenges
• How UA Addresses These Challenges
• UA Architecture
• UA Internal Components
• High Level Architecture: Data Collection and Normalization
• High Level Architecture: Event and Fault Management
• Event List
• High Level Architecture: Performance
• Performance Management
• High Level Architecture: Topology
• Topology
• Review
• High Level Architecture: Event Analytics
• Event Analytics
• High Level Architecture: Service Management
• Service Management
• High Level Architecture: Automation
• High Level Architecture: Visualization
• Visualization: Kibana
• Visualization: Grafana
• Visualization: Grafana (Cont.)
• Visualization: Device Overview
• Visualization: Service Level
• Final Review
• Recap

Unified Assurance Admin Training: Installation

• Safe Harbor Statement
• Objectives
• Installation Prerequisites
• Installation
• Installation: Setting the Production Environment Flag
• Installation: Troubleshooting Help
• Installing Additional Packages
• Updating UA
• Updating UA (Cont.)
• Common Installation Issues
• UA Un-install
• UA Un-install (Cont.)
• Recap

Unified Assurance Admin Training: Broker and Application Management

• Objectives
• Objectives (Cont.)
• Broker Control Overview
• Broker Control UI
• Broker Control DB Tables
• Config Types
• Services
• Scheduled Jobs
• Servers Interface
• Server Interface (Cont.)
• Logs
• Failover Service States
• BrokerControl Command Line
• UA System Services
• UA System Services (Cont.)
• Recap
• Recap (Cont.)

Unified Assurance Admin Training: AAA Administration

• Objectives
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Authorization (Cont.)
• Authorization (Cont)
• Accounting
• Recap

Unified Assurance Admin Training: Device Discovery

• Objectives
• Objectives (Cont.)
• Device Discovery Overview
• Device Discovery Architecture: Ping Discovery
• Device Discovery Architecture: SNMP / WMI Discovery
• Manual Discovery of Devices
• Device Auto Discovery
• Device Auto Discovery: Inclusion Profiles
• Device Auto Discovery: Inclusion Profiles (Cont.)
• Device Auto Discovery: Exclusion Profiles
• Device SNMP Discovery
• SNMP Access
• SNMP Best Practices
• Device Catalog
• Device Catalog (Cont.)
• Device State
• Modify a Device
• Device Groups
• Device Zones
• Recap
• Recap (Cont.)

Unified Assurance Admin Training: Fault Management

• Objectives
• Objectives (Cont.)
• Fault Overview
• Fault Overview (Cont.)
• What is an Event?
• What is an Event? (Cont.)
• What is an Alarm?
• What is an Alarm? (Cont.)
• What is a Fault?
• Important Event.Events Table Fields
• Important Event.Events Table Fields (Cont.)
• Common Fault Management Concepts
• Common Fault Management Concepts (Cont.)
• Event Enrichment/Correlation Engines
• Event Collection
• Event Collection (Cont.)
• Standard Aggregators
• Multi-Purpose Event Aggregators
• Event Rules
• Rules Types and Structure
• Rules Types
• CustomRules
• Event Rules Functions
• Event Rules Functions (Cont.)
• Custom SNMP Rules Files
• Event Northbound Integration
• Event Northbound Integration (Cont.)
• Events Configuration
• Event Displays
• Event Filters
• Filter Groups
• Event Conversions
• Adhoc Event Filter / Load Filter Tool
• Event Tools
• Event Tools – SQL
• Event Tool Menus
• Event List Tools
• Event List Tools (Cont.)
• CAPE (Custom Action Policy Engine)
• CAPE Policy
• CAPE Node
• CAPE Service
• Manage Mechanizations
• Notifications
• Notification Profiles
• Notification Templates
• Event Watcher Policies
• Recap
• Recap (Cont.)

Unified Assurance Admin Training: Performance Manager

• Objectives
• Performance Manager Overview
• Performance Manager Overview: Universal Metric Support
• Performance Manager Overview: Universal Metric Support (Cont.)
• Performance Manager Overview: Features
• Performance Manager Overview: Features (Cont.)
• Performance Manager Overview: Thresholding Capabilities
• Performance Manager Overview: Ease of Administration
• Performance Manager Terminology
• Performance Manager Terminology (Cont.)
• Performance Manager Pollers
• Performance Manager Pollers (Cont.)
• Other Metric Collection Methods
• Performance Manager Rules
• Performance Manager Processing Flow
• Performance Manager Rules Functions
• Metric Post-Collection Consolidation Engine (PCCE)
• Metric Post-Collection Consolidation Engine (PCCE) (Cont.)
• Metrics Discovery
• Metric Collection
• Threshold Processing
• Metric Types
• Metric Types (Cont.)
• Metrics Collections
• Metrics Display Instances
• Metrics Instances
• Metric Groups
• Poller Templates
• Polling Assignments
• Polling Assignment: Best Practices
• Polling Assignment: Best Practices (Cont.)
• Polling Policies
• Metrics Transactions
• Metric Network Interface Poller
• Generic SNMP Polling
• Threshold Engines
• Default Threshold Engines
• Thresholds
• Abnormal Profiles
• Threshold Groups
• Device Navigation
• Device Overview Dashboard
• Recap

Unified Assurance Admin Training: Topology

• Objectives
• Objectives (Cont.)
• Inventory & Topology Overview
• Graph Database
• Graph Overview
• Graph Vertices
• Graph Vertices – Types
• Graph Edges
• Graph Edges – Types
• Topology Gather Network Inventory
• Topology Stitchers
• Topology Rules Functions
• Topology Rules Functions (Cont.)
• Adhoc Graph Dashboard
• Adhoc Graph Dashboard (Cont.)
• Device Network Details
• Device Network Details (Cont.)
• Device Configuration
• Adhoc View Config Dashboard
• Recap
• Recap (Cont.)

Unified Assurance Admin Training: Service Level Monitoring

• Objectives
• Service Level Monitoring
• Service Level Monitoring (Cont.)
• Event SLM
• Metric SLM
• Service Config
• Service Config – SLM Service
• Service Config – SLM Service (Cont.)
• Service Config – SLM Filter
• Service Config – SLM Filter (Cont.)
• Service Config – SLM Metric
• Service Config – SLM Metric (Cont.)
• Recap

Unified Assurance Admin Training: Database Administration

• Objectives
• Objectives (Cont.)
• Unified Assurance Databases Overview
• Database User Interface
• Database User Interface (Cont.)
• Unified Assurance Databases: MySQL
• Unified Assurance Databases: MySQL (Cont.)
• Unified Assurance Databases: MySQL Event Database
• Unified Assurance Databases: MySQL Event Database(Cont.)
• Unified Assurance Databases: MySQL Event Database (Cont.)
• Unified Assurance Databases: Historical Database
• Unified Assurance Databases: Historical Database (Cont.)
• Unified Assurance Databases: Metrics
• Unified Assurance Databases: Metrics (Cont.)
• Unified Assurance Databases: Graph Database
• Unified Assurance Databases: Graph Database (Cont.)
• MySQL DB: Adding Custom Fields to Events DB
• MySQL DB Troubleshooting
• MySQL DB Troubleshooting: Exporting MySQL
• MySQL DB Troubleshooting: Troubleshooting Queries
• MySQL DB Troubleshooting: Troubleshooting Queries (Cont.)
• MySQL DB Troubleshooting: Database Connections
• Database Troubleshooting: Database Usage
• Database Troubleshooting: Database Usage (Cont.)
• Recap
• Recap (Cont.)

Unified Assurance Admin Training: Custom Packages

• Objectives
• Custom Packages Overview
• Naming Conventions
• Package Dependencies
• Package Definition
• Package Definition (Cont.)
• Rules Package Example
• Rules Package Example (Cont.)
• Recap

Unified Assurance Admin Training: Event Analytics

• Objectives
• Objectives (Cont.)
• Event Analytics Overview
• Event Analytics Overview – Architecture
• Event Analytics Overview – Key Workflows
• Event Analytics Overview – Key Workflows (Cont.)
• Navigate Historical Data
• Navigate Historical Data (Cont.)
• Visualize Historical Data
• Types of Policies
• Influencers
• Detectors
• Running a Policy
• Running a Policy (Cont.)
• Determine Cardinality
• Determine Cardinality (Cont.)
• Start the Job
• Anomaly Explorer
• Troubleshooting
• Recap
• Recap (Cont.)

Unified Assurance Admin Training: Dashboards and Diagrams

• Objectives
• Objectives (Cont.)
• Diagrams Overview
• Diagram Widgets
• Diagram Uses
• Diagram Config
• Diagram Config – New Diagrams
• Diagram Config – Ribbon
• Diagram Config– Ribbon (Cont.)
• Dashboard Overview
• Dashboard Config
• Dashboard Config (Cont.)
• Dashboard Panels
• Dashboard Panel Configuration
• Reports Overview
• Report Config
• Report Config – Profile
• Report Config – New Report
• Report Config – New Report (Cont.)
• Kibana Dashboards Overview
• Kibana Dashboards – Panels
• Kibana Dashboards – Visualizations
• Kibana Dashboards – [Event Analytics] Overview
• Kibana Dashboards – [Event Analytics] Top-N
• Kibana Dashboards – [Event Analytics] Time-over-time
• Kibana Dashboards – [Event Analytics] Events
• Grafana Dashboards – Overview
• Grafana Dashboards – Panels
• Grafana Dashboards – Settings
• Grafana Dashboards – System Dashboard
• Grafana Dashboards – Custom Dashboards
• Recap

Unified Assurance Admin Training: Redundancy

• Objectives
• High Availability
• Installing Redundant Server 1:1
• Redundant Multi-Server Configuration
• Steps for 1:1 Server Redundancy – 1:1 Walkthrough
• Steps for 1:1 Server Redundancy – 1:1 Verify Prerequisites
• Steps for 1:1 Server Redundancy – 1:1 Run Redundancy Wizard
• Steps for 1:1 Server Redundancy – 1:1 Run Redundancy Wizard (Cont.)
• Steps for 1:1 Server Redundancy – 1:1 Redundant Server Results
• Viewing Servers
• Viewing Servers (Cont.)
• Recap

Unified Assurance Admin Training

• Objectives
• Subversion ( SVN ) Overview
• Subversion ( SVN ) Overview (Cont.)
• SVN – Executable Directory
• SVN – Repositories Directory
• SVN – Repositories Directory (Cont.)
• SVN – Working Copy Directory
• SVN – Commands – a1svn info
• SVN– Commands – a1svn info (Cont.)
• SVN – Commands – a1svn status
• SVN – Commands – a1svn add / a1svn commit
• SVN – Commands – a1svn add / a1svn commit (Cont.)
• Recap