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Tech Area: Networking
| Level | Stage | [Product] Session Topic | Description | Date |
| Fundamental | Implement | [Catalyst Center] Deploying Catalyst Center on AWS | Join us as our experts walk you through the basics of the Catalyst Center (formerly Cisco DNA Center) on AWS. You will learn what are the components that make up a virtualized deployment of Catalyst Center, how devices will communicate with Catalyst Center, as well as the steps necessary to deploy the virtual appliance. |
Aug 6, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Implement | [Catalyst/Meraki] Getting Started with Meraki | Join us as our experts walk you through the main steps to follow when deploying your first Meraki networks. Learn about Meraki organizational structure and licensing models and how you can utilize zero touch provisioning features to simplify scaling of your deployment. |
Aug 8, 2024 |
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Fundamental | Implement |
[Catalyst Center] Deploying the 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. |
Jul 16 / Aug 7, 2024 |
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Advanced | Optimize |
[Catalyst Center] Upgrading Your Catalyst Center |
Join us as our experts walk you through best practices for upgrading 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. |
Jul 25 / Aug 27, 2024 |
See all upcoming Networking ATXs sessions in different time zones [AMER (PT) │ APJC (SGT) │ EMEA (BT/GMT)]
Tech Area: Data Center
| Level | Stage | [Product] Session Topic | Description | Date |
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Fundamental | Onboard |
[Intersight] Design Considerations: Cisco Intersight Architecture |
Join our experts for a technical overview of Cisco Intersight. Learn how Intersight can help simplify your data center operations while cutting costs and reducing time-to-implement. This session will also cover prerequisites and architecture components of Intersight. |
Aug 1, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Implement | ACI | Using Ansible with ACI | Join us as our experts walk you through how using Ansible for ACI can bring value to deployments and increase efficiency by automating ACI implementation and management tasks at scale. |
Aug 1, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Implement | [Intersight] Deployment: Get Started | 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. |
Jul 16 / Aug 6, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Implement | [AppDynamics] Hybrid Application Monitoring Deployment | Join us as our experts walk you through the deployment configurations used to enable Cisco AppDynamics. Explore deployment design approaches and review Cisco guidelines and best practices including the Cisco AppDynamics SaaS deployment model, agent rollout strategy, and Plan AppDynamics Model for the application. |
Aug 7, 2024 |
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Intermediate | Use |
[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. |
Jul 18 / Aug 13, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Use | [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. |
Jul 23 / Aug 20, 2024 |
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Intermediate | Use |
[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. |
Jul 24 / Aug 21, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Use | [Intersight] 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. |
Jul 30, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Use | [DCNM] NDFC 12.x Features Overview | Learn about some of the features and enhancements that Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller brings to the management of VXLAN EVPN fabrics. Our experts will also guide you through some of the architectural changes in NDFC 12 compared to previous DCNM versions. |
Aug 7, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Use | [Nexus Dashboard] Change Management with NDI Delta Analysis | Join us as our experts walk you through how to simplify change management using Delta Analysis to compare the health of the fabric pre- and post-change to rapidly determine whether changes caused any incidents in the network. Delta Analysis can also be utilized for maintenance upgrades, capacity management, and fabric improvement. |
Aug 13, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Engage | [ACI] Integration with ServiceNow | Join us as our experts walk you through the use cases and benefits that you and your IT team will realize when Cisco ACI is integrated with the ITSM and ITOM solution ServiceNow. |
Jul 16, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Engage | [AppDynamics] Hybrid Application Monitoring Day 2 Operations | Join us as our experts walk you through operational best practices for Cisco AppDynamics. Learn how to manage roles and permissions, gain a better understanding of security management and configuration, and review steps to plan your agents’ deployments. |
Jul 25, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Engage | [DCNM] VXLAN Fabric Performance Tuning Best Practices | Learn more about common performance issues that may impact VXLAN EVPN fabrics. Our experts will also share best practices to optimize your VXLAN EVPN fabric performance. |
Aug 20, 2024 |
| Advanced | Adopt | [DCNM] 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. |
Jul 18, 2024 |
| Advanced | Adopt | [ACI] Multi-Site and Multi-Pod | Join us to review architecture requirements for Multi-Pod and Multi-Site for Cisco ACI. By the end of this session, you will be enabled to select the best option for your organization when planning the expansion of data centers. |
Jul 24, 2024 |
| Advanced | Adopt | [AppDynamics] Hybrid Application Monitoring Upgrade | Join us as our experts walk you through how to prepare for a Cisco AppDynamics agent upgrade and review all the steps required to successfully perform the upgrade. Learn how to validate the upgrade and assess the impact on your SaaS controller. |
Aug 22, 2024 |
See all upcoming Data Center ATXs sessions in different time zones [AMER (PT) │ APJC (SGT) │ EMEA (BT/GMT)]
Tech Area: Security
| Level | Stage | [Product] Session Topic | Description | Date |
| Fundamental | Onboard | Planning for Cisco Secure Endpoint | In this introduction to Cisco Secure Endpoint (formerly AMP for Endpoints), learn how the solution protects your organization and review the licensing tier model and other foundational components like Talos Threat Intelligence. Understand how Secure Endpoint maps to business outcomes with easy-to-use features and robust reporting modules, resulting in increased visibility. Cisco experts will highlight the multiple solution benefits during a live demonstration. |
Aug 1, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Onboard | [SNA] Introduction to Data Store | The new release of Secure Network Analytics brings more agility and effectiveness with the Data Store deployment. Join this Ask-The-Experts session to learn all about the Data Store deployment, the value it brings, how to enable it or transition to it, and more! |
Aug 7, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Implement | XDR Integration | 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. |
Aug 13, 2024 |
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Intermediate | Use |
XDR Incidents | Join us as our experts teach you about the way the Cisco XDR Incidents feature helps you minimize time spent on detection and response of correlated security events by providing the most critical information needed to detect, triage, investigate, and respond, all in one place. In this session, we will walk you through the way incidents are promoted to Cisco XDR, and show you how to interact with and respond to those incidents. |
Jul 16, 2024 |
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Intermediate | Use |
[Secure Endpoint] Orbital Advanced Search | In this session, participants will learn all about Orbital Advanced Search based on OS query implementation. 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 that can be utilized and how you would write your own. |
Jul 18, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Use | 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. |
Jul 24, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Use | [DUO] 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. |
Aug 20, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Use | Secure Endpoint Capabilities | Join us as our experts walk you through incorporating fault management, configuration management, performance management and usage reporting for Cisco Secure Endpoint, formerly known as AMP for Endpoints, into your daily activities for IT Operations and Security Operations Centers. By the end of this session, you will be better equipped to protect, detect, and respond to malicious attacks. |
Aug 7, 2024 |
| Advanced | Optimize | 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. |
Jul 30, 2024 |
See all upcoming Security ATXs sessions in different time zones [AMER (PT) │ APJC (SGT) │ EMEA (BT/GMT)]
Tech Area: Service Provider
| Level | Stage | Session Topic | Description | Date |
| Fundamental | Onboard | Cisco Smart Software Manager overview for XR FCM | Join us as our experts demonstrate the operation of Cisco Smart Software Manager. Thought live demonstrations, the portal operations on licenses will be shown. |
Jul 9, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Onboard | [Meraki] 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. |
Aug 7, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Onboard | SR-MPLS Benefits and Fundamentals | Join us learn SR-MPLS. This session includes the technology benefits, fundamentals, and an overview of its features. Discover the benefits of SR-MPLS and how its mechanisms can simplify network operations, increase scalability, and enhance traffic engineering. Delve into the fundamentals of SR-MPLS and gain a solid understanding of its underlying concepts and principles. |
Aug 13, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Onboard | SRv6 Benefits and Fundamentals | Join us learn over Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6). This session includes the technology benefits, fundamentals, and an overview of its features. Discover the benefits of SRv6 and how its mechanisms can simplify network operations, increase scalability, and enhance traffic engineering. Deep dive into the fundamentals of SRv6 and gain a solid understanding of its underlying concepts and principles. |
Aug 21, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Implement | Smart Licensing for IOS XR |
Join us as our experts walk you through the deployment of smart licenses for IOS XR FCM devices. A practical demonstration is included, and it covers an overview of the license deployments with Cisco Smart Software Manager. |
Jul 18, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Implement | [Meraki] 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. |
Aug 20, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Use | SR-MPLS Traffic Engineering | Join us as our experts walk you through the deployment of smart licenses for IOS XR FCM devices. A practical demonstration is included, and it covers an overview of the license deployments with Cisco Smart Software Manager. Join us as our experts walk you through the deployment of smart licenses for IOS XR FCM devices. A practical demonstration is included, and it covers an overview of the license deployments with Cisco Smart Software Manager. |
Jul 24, 2024 |
See all upcoming Service Provider ATXs sessions in different time zones [AMER (PT) │ APJC (SGT) │ EMEA (BT/GMT)]
Resource: Supporting links
- Bookmark: Ask the Experts (ATXs) live schedule [ALL] | AMER schedule | EMEA schedule
- Replay (videos):
- Post-session materials including guides, 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
