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Tech Area: Networking Experiences
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October 15 │ Work from Office Unlocking the Potential of Smart Workspaces and Smart Buildings with Cisco's Network Infrastructure |
Join us for this session on Unlocking the Potential of Smart Workspaces and Smart Buildings with Cisco's Network Infrastructure. |
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October 16 │ Meraki Meraki SD-WAN |
Learn about Meraki SD-WAN, a suite of features designed to allow the network to dynamically adjust to changing WAN conditions. Learn how to deploy Meraki SD-WAN to ensure optimal performance for critical applications and help to avoid disruptions of highly performance-sensitive traffic. |
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October 17 │ Work from Office Hybrid Work and Sustainability: A Winning Combination for the Modern Workplace |
Learn more information about sustainability use cases and Hybrid Work. This session presents practical examples of how sustainability is addressed in office deployment when using Cisco Catalyst, Meraki, Collaboration and Cisco Spaces products. |
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October 22 │ SDWAN Cisco SDWAN Migration Strategies and Best Practices |
This session provides an overview of Cisco SD-WAN fabric. Our experts will guide you through migration best practices workflow and scenarios that support your use case and business requirements. |
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October 23 │ Catalyst Center Upgrading Your Catalyst Center |
Join us as our experts walk you through best practices for upgrading Catalyst Center (Formerly Cisco DNA Center), both in an air gapped environment and a standard deployment. Learn how to prepare for the upgrade by completing the upgrade checklist and prerequisites, and review a step-by-step upgrade workflow, as well as post-upgrade verification processes. |
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October 24 │ SDWAN vAnalytics Overview |
Join us as our experts walk you through using vAnalytics to gather insight into network performance and tuning requirements with the goal of increasing user satisfaction and productivity. By the end of the session, participants will have the knowledge to forecast and analyze data for effective resource planning. |
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October 29 │ Location Based Intelligence Upgrading Your Cisco Spaces Connector |
Join us as our experts walk you through how to upgrade your Cisco Spaces connector to the latest version. We will demonstrate the various upgrade flows and review best practices for completing the upgrades. |
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November 5 │ Catalyst Center Deploying Catalyst Center on ESXI |
Join us as our experts walk you through the best practices when installing your Catalyst Center on ESXI. We will show you how to use the Launcher tool to deploy the OVA file to your ESXi environment and perform the initial setup, including backing up and restoring using a local VM disk. |
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November 6 │ Catalyst Center Moving from Prime Infrastructure to Catalyst Center |
Join us as our experts walk you through how to plan for the migration of Prime Infrastructure to Cisco DNA Center. Review high-level migration strategies including unique migration features and requirements. |
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November 7 │ Meraki Introduction to Meraki APIs |
Join us as our experts walk you through Meraki API categories, their features and uses. Learn about Dashboard API, Webhooks, Scanning API, and MV sense. |
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November 12 │ SDWAN Cisco SD-WAN Best Practices for MultiCloud Connectivity |
Join us as our experts walk you through Cisco's best practices on Cisco SD-WAN MultiCloud Connectivity design options, general use case deployment guidelines and considerations, deployment phases and approaches. |
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November 13 │ Catalyst Center Operations Planning and Best Practices: Catalyst Center Assurance |
Join us as our experts walk you through Catalyst Center (Formerly Cisco DNA Center) automation tools and features. You will learn how to automate changing network settings and how to use SWIM to upgrade software images for your network devices. |
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November 14 │ Work from Office Unlocking the Potential of Smart Workspaces and Smart Buildings with Cisco's Network Infrastructure |
Join us for this session on Unlocking the Potential of Smart Workspaces and Smart Buildings with Cisco's Network Infrastructure. |
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November 19 │ Meraki Securing the Meraki Full Stack |
Join us as our experts take you through best practices for securing the Meraki Full Stack. Learn how to get the most out of the security features of the Meraki Security and SD-WAN appliances, Meraki Switches and Meraki Wireless. |
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November 20 │ Work from Office Hybrid Work and Sustainability: A Winning Combination for the Modern Workplace |
Learn more information about sustainability use cases and Hybrid Work. This session presents practical examples of how sustainability is addressed in office deployment when using Cisco Catalyst, Meraki, Collaboration and Cisco Spaces products. |
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November 21 │ Catalyst Center Upgrading Catalyst Center |
Join us as our experts walk you through best practices for upgrading Catalyst Center (Formerly Cisco DNA Center), both in an air gapped environment and a standard deployment. Learn how to prepare for the upgrade by completing the upgrade checklist and prerequisites, and review a step-by-step upgrade workflow, as well as post-upgrade verification processes. |
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November 26 │ Location Based Intelligence Transform your Spaces with Smart Workspaces |
Join us as our experts walk you through the Smart Workspaces solution. This solution leverages information from Meraki, Webex, Catalyst APs, and other sensors to give you a dynamic and real-time picture of your building occupancy, air metrics, and other statistics, all within Cisco Spaces. We will show you how this solution works, what steps you will need to perform to enable it, and the benefits of implementing it within your organization. |
Tech Area: Data Center Cloud and Compute
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October 15 │ Data Center Deployment for Advanced Application Performance Monitoring |
Join us as our experts walk you through the onboarding process for Cisco AppDynamics, where you will be introduced to key features such as Business Application and Business Transactions. The session will also cover the procedures for adding users to the AppDynamics controller, ensuring you have a complete understanding of system setup and user management. |
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October 16 │ Data Center Cisco Intersight Programmability - Ansible and Python |
Learn about Intersight's ability to automate and customise operations within the Cisco Intersight platform. Gain knowledge how users can leverage Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to integrate and extend the functionality of the platform to enable automation of repetitive tasks, creation of custom workflows, and integration with other tools and systems using Ansible and Python. |
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October 17 │ Data Center Capability Overview for Advanced Application Performance Monitoring |
Join us as our experts walk you through the Cisco AppDynamics Agents. This session will provide an in-depth exploration of the Alert and Respond Model, part of Cisco AppDynamics, and will offer detailed instruction on the configuration of Data Collectors. |
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October 22 │ Data Center Hybrid Application Monitoring Capability Overview |
Join us as our experts walk you through the features that enable the full value of Cisco AppDynamics. Gain basic knowledge of flow maps, business transactions, and service endpoints. Review the first steps to configure health rules, data collectors, policies, and more. |
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October 24 │ Data Center Cisco Intersight Programmability - Terraform and Powershell |
Learn about Intersight's ability to automate and customise operations within the Cisco Intersight platform. Gain knowledge how users can leverage Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to integrate and extend the functionality of the platform to enable automation of repetitive tasks, creation of custom workflows, and integration with other tools and systems using Terraform and Powershell. |
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October 24 │ Data Center Configuring ACI with APIs and CLI |
Join us as our experts walk you through how to automate the ACI fabric configuration. The session will cover industry-standard tools to perform ACI configuration tasks and demonstrate ACI use cases which can benefit from automation. |
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November 5 │ Data Center Deployment: Get Started with Cisco Intersight |
Join us for an overview of how to get started using Intersight by creating your SaaS account or deploying the virtual appliances and setting up your on-prem deployment. |
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November 6 │ Data Center Hybrid Application Monitoring Use Case Planning |
Join us as our experts walk you through the activities required to enable desired business capabilities of Cisco AppDynamics. Learn how to monitor and manage the entire application delivery ecosystem from entry points to your network, to backend databases, to application servers, and more. Review the steps to create an actionable plan to move forward. |
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November 7 │ Data Center Cisco Intersight Managed Mode |
Learn how to leverage the Intersight Managed Mode (IMM) to combine the capabilities of the UCS Systems and the cloud-based flexibility of Intersight, unifying the management experience for the standalone and Fabric Interconnect attached systems. |
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November 12 │ Data Center Customer Digital Experience Monitoring Use Case Planning |
Join us as our experts walk you through a use case overview of Cisco’s Customer Digital Experience Monitoring solution. This session will cover basic concepts, features, and benefits of AppDynamics and ThousandEyes integration to give you a better understanding of how this solution can improve visibility of your applications and network. |
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November 13│ Intersight Capability Overview: Cisco Intersight and UCS |
Learn how Cisco Intersight interacts with your UCS infrastructure and how you can leverage its features to simplify operations such as deploying UCS domains and UCS servers using Policy-based profiles and templates. |
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November 14 │ Data Center Use Case Planning for Advanced Application Performance Monitoring |
Join us as our experts walk you through the integral features of Cisco AppDynamics, centering on its Application Performance Monitoring capabilities. They will discuss the pivotal benefits and the substantial value addition offered by the tool. You will gain insights on the Cisco AppDynamics Licensing Model as well. |
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November 19 │ Data Center Cisco Intersight Programmability - Ansible and Python |
Learn about Intersight's ability to automate and customise operations within the Cisco Intersight platform. Gain knowledge how users can leverage Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to integrate and extend the functionality of the platform to enable automation of repetitive tasks, creation of custom workflows, and integration with other tools and systems using Ansible and Python. |
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November 21 │ Data Center Cisco Intersight Programmability - Terraform and Powershell |
Learn about Intersight's ability to automate and customise operations within the Cisco Intersight platform. Gain knowledge how users can leverage Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to integrate and extend the functionality of the platform to enable automation of repetitive tasks, creation of custom workflows, and integration with other tools and systems using Terraform and Powershell. |
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November 6 │ Data Center NXOS Upgrade using NDFC |
Join us as our experts share best practices for leveraging Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller to perform VXLAN fabric-wide NX-OS upgrades successfully. We will guide you through the upgrade process and show you how software versions can be applied to the new devices as they are added to the fabric. |
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November 7 │ Data Center Deploying Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights |
Join us as our experts walk you through the requirements and deployment considerations for the Nexus Dashboard Insights application on a Nexus Dashboard cluster. This session will cover initial setup and how to onboard sites and enable key functionalities like assurance and bug scans for compliance and optimal operations. |
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November 13 │ Data Center NDFC upgrade Best Practices |
Learn about the key concepts and considerations involved in performing a successful Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller upgrade. Our experts will review best practices to ensure a smooth experience for your organization. |
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November 19 │ Data Center Tenant Routed Multicast Overview |
Join us to explore Tenant Routed Multicast foundations and architecture, as well as the benefits to your organization and the requirements and considerations to enable TRM in a VXLAN EVPN fabric environment. |
Tech Area: Security
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October 15 │ Network Security Analytics Upgrade Best Practices: The latest and greatest awaits |
This session will guide you through the upgrade preparation process for Secure Network Analytics (SNA). You will recognize how to prepare for an SNA upgrade, including reviewing the product compatibility matrix, performing an upgrade analysis, determining system readiness, and following a pre-upgrade checklist. You will also learn about the steps to perform the upgrade together with the process to validate the upgrade and any other post-upgrade steps. |
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October 16 │ Security Secure Application Access with Phishing-Resistant MFA |
Join us as our experts walk you through a secure application access with phishing resistant MFA. This session will help you identify prerequisites, define a testing methodology and go live with an application at high-level. You will also understand different ways to protect an application, such as RADIUS, SAML WITH SSO, and so on. |
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October 22 │ Network Security Analytics Day 2 Operations with Visibility, Analytics and Policies |
Join us as our experts cover best practices for operationalizing Secure Network Analytics, or SNA, solution through Day 2 Operations capabilities. This session will focus on the visibility features of SNA, along with Analytics and Policies. Participants will be introduced to the variety of telemetry sources the SNA ingests flows from, learn how to leverage Analytics capabilities to investigate further, and learn how to operationalize SNA Policy Management. |
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October 23 │ XDR XDR Automation |
Join us as our experts walk you through an overview and demonstration of XDR Automation and its primary components. Cisco XDR Automation can accelerate and enhance the way your organization detects, investigates and responds to threats in your environment. |
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November 6 │ ISE ISE Posture |
Join us as our experts walk you through an overview of ISE Posture and review deployment considerations and Posture Components. Learn about planning and best practices for Posture deployment, and view a live step-by-step demo on how to configure Posture. |
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November 7 │ XDR XDR Integrations |
Join us as our experts teach you about the way Cisco XDR allows incident responders to better understand threats on their network by gathering, combining, and correlating threat intelligence with network and security data from Cisco and third-party security products deployed within their organizations. In this session, we walk you through all available Cisco and third party integrations, teach you to configure them and help you discover all their benefits. |
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November 12 │ Endpoint Detection and Response Capability Overview: Orbital Advanced Search |
In this session, participants will learn all about Orbital Advanced Search based on OS query implementation and Script execution. We are going to show you how Orbital helps to cut downtime to remediate threats and how it aligns with your business goals. During the solution demonstration, you will clearly see how Orbital works by understanding common pre-built queries and scripts that can be utilized and how you would write your own. |
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November 13 │ Network Security Analytics Upgrade Best Practices: The latest and greatest awaits |
This session will guide you through the upgrade preparation process for Secure Network Analytics (SNA). You will recognize how to prepare for an SNA upgrade, including reviewing the product compatibility matrix, performing an upgrade analysis, determining system readiness, and following a pre-upgrade checklist. You will also learn about the steps to perform the upgrade together with the process to validate the upgrade and any other post-upgrade steps. |
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November 14 │ Security Secure Application Access with Phishing Resistant MFA |
Join us as our experts walk you through a secure application access with phishing resistant MFA. This session will help you identify prerequisites, define a testing methodology and go live with an application at high-level. You will also understand different ways to protect an application, such as RADIUS, SAML WITH SSO, and so on. |
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November 19 │ XDR XDR Automation |
Join us as our experts walk you through an overview and demonstration of XDR Automation and its primary components. Cisco XDR Automation can accelerate and enhance the way your organization detects, investigates and responds to threats in your environment. |
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November 20 │ Network Security Analytics Day 2 Operations with Visibility, Analytics and Policies |
Join us as our experts cover best practices for operationalizing Secure Network Analytics, or SNA, solution through Day 2 Operations capabilities. This session will focus on the visibility features of SNA, along with Analytics and Policies. Participants will be introduced to the variety of telemetry sources the SNA ingests flows from, learn how to leverage Analytics capabilities to investigate further, and learn how to operationalize SNA Policy Management. |
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November 21 │ ISE ISE Upgrade |
Join us as our experts walk you through the steps to prepare, perform, and validate a successful ISE upgrade without headaches. This session will cover best practices and strategies to minimize downtime, as well as various methods of upgrades for different types of ISE deployments. |
Tech Area: Cross Architecture and Service Provider
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October 15 │ CDE Cloud Devices Experience End User Engagement |
Join us as our experts explain Collaboration Device end user adoption and best practices. This session will cover technical readiness, communication and launch types, as well as how to measure adoption success. |
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October 15 │ Service Provider SR-MPLS interworking with MPLS-LDP |
Dive into the intricacies of SR-MPLS and LDP Internetworking and unlock the power of seamless label distribution in your network. This session delves into the core principles of Segment Routing and LDP, providing a comprehensive understanding of their interplay. Explore the practical steps involved in configuring Segment Routing in a LDP enabled network and gain insights into the seamless integration of these technologies. |
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October 22 │ Service Provider NSO and NED Upgrade |
Join us as our experts demonstrate Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) capabilities in managing upgrades with various Service Packages that deliver Orchestration capabilities to various multi-vendor network devices. This session will include an overview of NSO Service Reconciliation steps required for upgrade and management of NSO's multi-vendor NEDs as per NSO software release. |
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November 7 │ CDE Best Practices for Implementing Cloud Devices Experience |
Join us as our experts provide an overview of deployment options for Collaboration Devices. This session will address prerequisites, network readiness, device configuration, and integration options. |
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November 19 │ CDE Cloud Devices Experience End User Engagement |
Join us as our experts explain Collaboration Device end user adoption and best practices. This session will cover technical readiness, communication and launch types, as well as how to measure adoption success. |
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November 6 │ Service Provider Introduction to NSO |
Join our experts for an overview of Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) and learn how to improve your operations with NSO Automation capabilities. This session will also cover various NSO licensing models that can help you track your NSO usage. You will come away with a solid understanding of how to leverage NSO Services for faster provisioning on new Network Services. |
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November 13 │ Service Provider NSO Installation |
Join us as our experts walk you through the steps required to install NSO in your network environment. We will also explore the data required to size NSO per your unique network device types and count. Additionally, review the steps required to deploy NSO in a containerized environment such as Docker. |
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November 19 │ Service Provider SR-MPLS Traffic Engineering |
Join us for a session dedicated to SR-MPLS Traffic Engineering. This event will provide an understanding of how to leverage SR-MPLS to optimize your network's performance. Discover how SR-MPLS's unique features allow for granular control over the routing of packets, leading to efficient bandwidth utilization, effective load balancing, and improved quality of service. Explore the mechanisms behind SR-MPLS Traffic Engineering and learn how to apply these principles to enhance your network operations. |
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November 26 │ Service Provider SRv6 L3VPN _x000B_services overview |
Gain knowledge on how SRv6 is utilized in Layer 3 Virtual Private Networks to provide efficient communication across different network sites. Understand the mechanisms behind this technology and how it contributes to a more robust network infrastructure. |
Tech Area: Cross Architecture - LATAM
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October 16 │ SDWAN Traffic Engineering Overview for APO (Spanish) |
Acompáñenos en esta sesión mientras nuestros expertos lo guían a través de las funciones de optimización de aplicaciones de Cisco SD-WAN y sus casos de uso. También revisaremos las pautas para determinar las métricas generales y específicas de customer success, necesidades y usos del negocio, requerimientos previos y dependencias de casos de uso, conceptos clave, terminología, licencias, opciones de implementación de Cisco y partners, así como recursos adicionales, información y capacitación disponible. |
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October 16 │ Traffic Engineering Overview for APO (Portuguese) |
Participe desta sessão onde nossos especialistas orientam você através dos recursos de otimização de aplicativos do Cisco SD-WAN e seus casos de uso. Também revisaremos as diretrizes para determinar métricas de sucesso gerais e específicas do cliente, necessidades e usos de negócios, pré-requisitos e dependências de casos de uso, conceitos-chave, terminologia, licenciamento, opções de implantação da Cisco e de parceiros, bem como recursos adicionais, informações e treinamento disponível. |
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October 22 │ Cisco ACI 6.0 new software capabilities (Portuguese) |
Junte-se a nós enquanto nossos especialistas o guiam pelas novas funcionalidades e capacidades introduzidas na versão 6.0 do Cisco ACI. Esta sessão cobrirá opções de configuração, casos de uso de aprimoramento de escalabilidade suportados e novas funcionalidades incluídas na versão 6.0. |
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October 23 │ Location Based Intelligence Connecting Cisco Spaces to your Catalyst and Meraki Wireless Network (Spanish) |
Acompáñenos en esta sesión mientras nuestros expertos le explican cómo conectar sus dispositivos Catalyst, AireOS o Meraki con Cisco Spaces. |
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October 23 │ Data Center Design Considerations: Cisco Intersight Architecture (Spanish) |
Únase a nuestros expertos para obtener una descripción general técnica de Cisco Intersight. Descubra cómo Intersight puede ayudar a simplificar las operaciones de su centro de datos mientras reduce los costos y el tiempo de implementación. Esta sesión también cubrirá los requerimientos previos y los componentes de la arquitectura de Intersight. |
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October 24 │ Seguridad Orbital Advanced Search (Spanish) |
En esta sesión, los participantes aprenderán todo sobre la búsqueda avanzada con Orbital basada en la implementación de consultas OS Query. Le mostraremos cómo Orbital ayuda a reducir el tiempo de inactividad para remediar las amenazas y cómo se alinea con sus objetivos de negocio. Durante la demostración de la solución, verá claramente cómo funciona Orbital al comprender las consultas prediseñadas comunes que se pueden utilizar y cómo escribiría sus propias consultas. |
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October 24 │ Orbital Advanced Search (Portuguese) |
Nesta sessão, os participantes aprenderão tudo sobre pesquisa avançada com Orbital com base na implementação de consulta OS Query. Mostraremos como o Orbital ajuda a reduzir o tempo de inatividade para remediar ameaças e como ele se alinha aos seus objetivos de negócios. Durante a demonstração da solução, você verá claramente como o Orbital funciona, entendendo as consultas pré-construídas comuns que podem ser usadas e como você escreveria suas próprias consultas. |
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October 30 │ Internet and Cloud Visibility Deploy ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent and Configure Tests (Spanish) |
Acompáñenos en esta sesión mientras nuestros expertos le explican cómo instalar Enterprise Agent en los Catalyst 9000 Series Switches en campus network. Nuestros expertos también le mostrarán diferentes tipos de tests disponibles para los Enterprise Agents y cómo configurar un test y ver los resultados. |
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October 30 │ Deploy ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent and Configure Tests (Portuguese) |
Participe desta sessão onde nossos especialistas orientam você sobre como instalar o Enterprise Agent em Catalyst 9000 Series Switches em sua rede de campus. Nossos especialistas também mostrarão diferentes tipos de testes disponíveis para Enterprise Agents e como configurar um teste e visualizar os resultados do teste. |
Resource: Supporting links
- Bookmark/subscribe the Ask the Experts (ATXs) live schedule
- Post-session materials including recording, session handout:
- Cisco DNA Center ATXs resources (also contains Spaces, ThousandEyes, Meraki, SD-WAN)
- Cisco SD-Access ATXs resources
- Cisco ACI ATXs resources (also contains Nexus Dashboard, NDFC//DCNM)
- Cisco Intersight ATXs resources (also contains HyperFlex, AppDynamics)
- Cisco Endpoint Security ATXs resources (also contains Secure Email, ISE, SecureX, DUO)
- Cisco Network Security ATXs resources (also contains Secure Firewall/Network Analytics, ISE, SecureX, DUO)
- [Partner Community] Ask the Experts (ATXs) Essentials
- FAQ
