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IT QuickStart: ACE and Panorama (3 days)

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Prerequisites:
For ACE: Basic understanding of applications, networking, and protocols.
For Panorama: Basic understanding of server performance testing. Knowledge of Java and Java EE would be helpful, but not necessary.

Course Description:
Through labs and lecture, this course teaches you the fundamentals of using OPNET solutions in the IT space. The first two days focus on ACE, and the last day, Panorama.

Using ACE, you will learn how to capture, filter, and import packet traces to study application behavior, analyze and predict TCP behaviors that impact application performance, and create models of applications with ACE Whiteboard.

Using Panorama, you will learn how to gain valuable insight into historical and real-time performance patterns of business-critical applications. This enables you to monitor thousands of application and system metrics proactively across multiple tiers to identify sources of performance problems or potential choke points, improving application response time and preventing application outages. This course provides training for both Panorama for Production and Panorama for QA.

Various other OPNET IT solutions will be discussed and demoed throughout the class.

Note that Cisco Application Analysis Solution (AAS) is equivalent to ACE. Therefore, this class applies to students who want to learn about AAS.

Agenda:
Day 1
  • ACE and AAS workflow and methodologies
  • Application capture and import strategies
  • Planning application deployments
Day 2
  • Troubleshooting and predicting application performance
  • Troubleshooting and predicting the impact of TCP on application performance
  • Modeling applications with the ACE Whiteboard

Day 3

  • Panorama use cases and methodology
  • Correlation and analysis techniques
  • Dynamic thresholds and automatic baselines
  • Application internals that behave badly
  • "Hot spots" and system bottlenecks
  • Subtle cause-and-effect behaviors
  • Key measurements to monitor in production
  • Characterize normal performance and the effects of load
  • Use stored performance history to examine trends
  • Troubleshoot problems in conjunction with IT Guru and ACE

 

Related Classes:

IT QuickStart: ACE™ and IT Guru® Network Planner

IT QuickStart: ACE™ and IT Sentinel®

Introduction to OPNET Panorama™

Introduction to ACE™ and Cisco AAS
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