IT QuickStart: ACE and IT Guru Network Planner
(3 days)
Prerequisites:
For ACE: Basic understanding of applications, networking, and protocols.
For IT Guru Network Planner: Basic understanding of network technologies.
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, IT Guru Network Planner.
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 IT Guru Network Planner, you will study network
design, capacity planning, performance prediction, and failure analysis.
You will learn how to create/import topologies and traffic profiles,
use NetDoctor, Flow Analysis, and discrete-event simulation.
Various other OPNET IT solutions will be discussed and demoed throughout the class.
Note that Cisco Application Analysis Solution (AAS) is equivalent to ACE, and Cisco Network Planning Solution (NPS) is equivalent to IT Guru Network Planner. Therefore, this class applies to students who want to learn about AAS and NPS.
Agenda:
Day 1
- ACE 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
- IT Guru Network Planner workflow and methodologies
- Importing topology and traffic with XDI
- Auditing and validating network device configurations
- Identifying and solving network problems
- Understanding effects of failures
- Capacity planning studies
Related Classes:
IT QuickStart: ACE and OPNET Panorama
IT QuickStart: ACE and IT Sentinel
Introduction to IT Guru Network Planner and SP Guru Network Planner