Course Overview

Module 1: Introduction to SD-WAN

1. What is Software Defined Networking?
2. Benefits of SD-WAN

Module 2: Catalyst SD-WAN architecture

1. SD-WAN Architecture
2. vBond or validator
3. vBond design considerations
4. vSmarts or Controllers
5. vSmart design considerations
6. vManage or manager
7. vManage cluster design considerations
8. vManage High Availability

Module 3: Bringing up the controller site

1. Obtaining the images and verifying the license
2. Uploading the topology Cisco Modeling Lab
3. Brining up the Controllers and configure the CA.
4. Bring up and configure the vManage
5. Create and configure ROOT CA
6. Onboarding the controllers
7. vManager Cluster
8. Controller Affinity and distributed deployments
9. Validator high availability

Module 4: Bringing up the WAN Edge cEdge routers and Zero Touch Provisioning.

1. cEdges vs vEdge
2. cEdge autonomous and Controller mode
3. Configure the cEdges in controller mode
4. User Input Required for the ZTP Automatic Authentication Process
5. Authentication between the vBond Orchestrator and WAN Edges
6. Authentication between the Edge Routers and the vManage NMS
7. Authentication between the vSmart Controller and the Edge Routers

Module 5: Overlay Management Protocol

1. Troubleshooting NAT Issues for Control and Data connections
2. BGP Information
3. Multicast Information
4. OMP Information
5. OSPF Information
6. PIM Information
7. Symptom: Some or All Routes Missing from Edge Routing table
8. Symptom: Data Traffic Using Suboptimal Path
9. Symptom: Data Traffic Not Using All Transports

Module 6: Cisco SD-WAN Solution

1. Overlay Management Protocol (OMP)
2. Cisco SDWAN Circuit Aggregation Capabilities
3. Secure Connectivity in Cisco SD-WAN
4. Performance Tracking Mechanisms
5. Application Discovery
6. Dynamic Path Selection
7. Performance Based Routing
8. Direct Internet Access
9. Cisco SD-WAN In-built Security features: App Aware FW, Talos IPS, URL Filtering, Umbrella Integration & Advanced Malware Protection
10. Dynamic Cloud Access: Cloud On-Ramp for SaaS and IaaS (AWS, Azure & GPC)

Module: 7 Operations Best Practices

1. Config: Test Configuration Changes Before Committing
2. NAT: Secure Routers Acting as NATs
3. Edge Routers: Connect to the Console Port
4. vManage Operrational Commands
5. SD WAN Devices: Site ID Naming Conventions
6. SD WAN Devices: Using the System IP Address
7. vManage NMS: Disaster Recovery
8. Disaster Recovery – Cluster failover scenarios
9. vManage Disaster Recovery Checklist
10. How to configure Disaster Recovery

Module: 8 General Troubleshooting

1. Check Application-Aware Routing Traffic
2. Collect Device Data to Send to Customer Support
3. Monitor Alarms and Events
4. Monitor TCP Optimization
5. Ping an SD WAN Device
6. Run a Traceroute
7. Simulate Flows
8. Troubleshoot Cellular Interfaces
9. Troubleshoot Device Bringup
10. Use Syslog Messages
11. Tunnel Health

Module: 9 Troubleshooting: Data Plane Issues

1. BFD Session Information and Troubleshooting a BFD Session
2. Cflowd Issues
3. Data Policies
4. DPI Issues
5. Symptom: Site Cannot Reach Applications in Datacenter
6. Symptom: vManage Showing Edge Router or Interface Down
7. Symptom: Site-Wide Loss of Connectivity (Blackout)
8. Symptom: Poor Application Performance (Brownout)
9. Issue Severity Assessment

Module: 10 Network Operations

1. Check Alarms and Events
2. Check User Accounts and Permissions
3. Deploy the SD WAN Overlay Network
4. Determine the Status of Network Sites
5. Control Connections
6. Data Connections
7. OMP Status
8. Enabling Embedded Packet Captures and Packet Trace on Cisco cEdges