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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. |
Jul 9, 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. |
Jul 11, 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, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Use | [Hybrid Work] Unlocking the Potential of Smart Workspaces and Smart Buildings with Cisco's Network Infrastructure |
Jul 18, 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. |
Jun 26 / Jul 25, 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 |
| Fundamental | Onboard | [AppDynamics] 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. |
Jul 9, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Onboard | [AppDynamics & ThousandEyes] 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. |
Jul 10, 2024 |
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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. |
Jul 11, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Implement | [DCNM] 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. |
Jul 10, 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, 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. |
Jun 20 / Jul 18, 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. |
Jun 25 / Jul 23, 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. |
Jun 26 / Jul 24, 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 | 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. |
Jun 27 / Jul 25, 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 |
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 |
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Fundamental | Implement |
[DUO] Protect Your First Application | Join us as our experts walk you through protecting your first application with Duo. This session will help you understand the requirements for rolling out a protected application in your environment. You will also learn about other considerations, such as disaster recovery and high availability. |
Jul 11, 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. |
Jun 19 / 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. |
Jun 20 / 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 |
| Advanced | Optimize | [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. |
Jun 27 / 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Fundamental | Onboard | Introducing XR Flexible Consumption Model | Join us as our experts introduce the usage of XR Flexible Consumption Model. Our experts will cover the introduction to the new operating model with the SIA entitlements and restrictions examples. |
June 20, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Engage | 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. |
June 25, 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
