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Tech Area: Networking
| Level | Stage | Session Topic | Description | Date |
| Fundamental | Implement | 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. |
Nov 6, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Implement | 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. |
Nov 7, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Implement | 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. |
Nov 13, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Use | 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. |
Nov 14, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Use | Unlocking the Potential of Smart Workspaces and Smart Buildings with Cisco's Network Infrastructure | Join us as our experts show you how Smart Workspaces harness the data from your Cisco and third-party devices to create a safer and smarter workspace. |
Nov 19, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Use | 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. |
Nov 20, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Engage | 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. |
Nov 21, 2024 |
| Advanced | Adopt | 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. |
Nov 28, 2024 |
| Advanced | Optimize | 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. |
Oct 22 / Nov 26, 2024 |
| Advanced | Optimize | 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. |
Oct 24, 2024 |
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Tech Area: Data Center
| Level | Stage | Session Topic | Description | Date |
| Fundamental | Implement | 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. |
Oct 22, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Implement | 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. |
Nov 5, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Implement | 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. |
Nov 6, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Implement | 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. |
Nov 7, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Use | 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. |
Nov 7, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Use | 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. |
Nov 13, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Use | 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. |
Oct 16, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Use | 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. |
Oct 23 / Nov 19, 2024 |
| Intermediate| Use | 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. |
Oct 24, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Use | 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. |
Oct 29 / Nov 21, 2024 |
| Advanced | Adopt | VRF-Lite External Connectivity | Join us to learn about the business requirement of connecting VXLAN EVPN fabrics to an external Layer 3 domain. Our experts will demonstrate design options and review how to implement external connectivity using Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller. |
Oct 22, 2024 |
| Advanced | Adopt | Leveraging NDFC APIs for Image Management | Learn more about available NDFC API's. Our experts will show you tools and ways to leverage NDFC API's to follow the entire Image Management workflow from a programmability perspective, opening possibilities for the integration of this workflow with third party platforms or applications. |
Oct 24, 2024 |
| Advanced | Adopt | 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. |
Nov 19, 2024 |
| Advanced | Optimize | 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. |
Nov 13, 2024 |
See all upcoming Data Center ATXs sessions in different time zones [AMER (PT) │ APJC (SGT) │ EMEA (BT/GMT)]
Tech Area: Security
| Level | Stage | Session Topic | Description | Date |
| Intermediate | Use | 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. |
Nov 7, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Use | 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. |
Nov 14, 2024 |
| Intermediate| Engage | 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. |
Oct 22 / Nov 26, 2024 |
| Advanced | Optimize | 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. |
Nov 13, 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. |
Oct 23 / Nov 27, 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 | 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. |
Nov 6, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Use | NSO Service Design Overview | Join us as our experts review best practices for creating a Network Service on Cisco's Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) using various features and capabilities that leverage a Services templates approach in building new and modifying existing Services built in NSO. This session will cover the various types of Services, Model Driven programming via YANG, Reactive Fastmap and Nano Services. |
Oct 23, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Engage | Operations and Maintenance of NSO | In this session, our experts will review how to smoothly run and operate an NSO environment using multi-vendor NEDs and keep your environment updated with the latest bug fixes by regularly checking and updating NSO versions. You will also learn how to perform various Connectivity and Systems checks including CPU/Memory utilization, as well as monitor the performance of your NSO CDB and execute various other operations using the NSO GUI Dashboard. |
Oct 24, 2024 |
See all upcoming Service Provider ATXs sessions in different time zones [AMER (PT) │ APJC (SGT) │ EMEA (BT/GMT)]
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- 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)
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