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Tech Area: Networking
| Level | Stage | [Product] Session Topic | Description | Date |
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Fundamental | Implement |
[Spaces] Best Practices: Digital Signage, Room Booking and Hot Desking | Join us as our experts explain implementation of from Home consisting of secure remote access hardware, and industry leading video and collaboration devices. |
Apr 18, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Implement | [Catalyst/DNA 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. |
May 7, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Implement | [Catalyst/DNA 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. |
May 14, 2024 |
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Fundamental | Implement |
[Catalyst/DNA 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. |
May 16, 2024 |
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Intermediate | Engage |
[Catalyst/Meraki] Cloud Monitoring for Catalyst Overview |
Join us as your experts walk you through the onboarding process for Cloud Monitoring for Catalyst with Meraki Dashboard. Learn about Cloud Monitoring dependencies and prerequisites, and how to get the most out of Cloud Monitoring features. |
Apr 23 / May 22, 2024 |
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Advanced | Optimize |
[Catalyst/DNA 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. |
Apr 30 / May 29, 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. |
May 7, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Onboard | [ACI] Automation Tools Overview | Join us as our experts walk you through how to automate ACI tasks using APIs. The session will cover how to use ACI integrations to solve business challenges, available automation resources, ACI object model and REST APIs. |
May 7, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Implement | [ACI] 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. |
May 14, 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. |
May 15, 2024 |
| Fundamental | Implement | [AppDynamics] Application Security Deployment | Join us as our experts review fundamental prerequisites and step-by-step agent deployment for Application Security. This session will cover the process of deploying the agent and provide you with insights into the features of business applications and business transactions. |
May 16, 2024 |
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Fundamental | Implement |
[AppDynamics/ThousandEyes] Customer Digital Experience Monitoring Deployment |
Join us as our experts walk you through Customer Digital Experience Monitoring basic prerequisites and agent deployment steps. This session includes a review of the AppDynamics and ThousandEyes RBAC and Licensing model, as well as an overview of AppDynamics and ThousandEyes integration benefits. |
Apr 18 / May 14, 2024 |
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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. |
May 21, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Use | [AppDynamics] 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. |
May 22, 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. |
Apr 23 / May 28, 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. |
Apr 24 / May 29, 2024 |
| Intermediate | Engage | [Intersight] Day 2 Operations: Cisco Intersight Monitoring | Join us as our experts walk you through best practices to monitor computing infrastructure with Cisco Intersight. This session will cover faults, advisories, HCL, and more. |
Apr 30 / May 30, 2024 |
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Intermediate | Engage |
[Nexus Dashboard] Pre-Change Analysis with Nexus Dashboard Insights |
Join us as our experts walk you through how to use the Pre-Change Analysis feature in Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights to understand the impact of configuration changes on ACI fabric before they are executed. You will learn how to verify the configuration intent before deploying policies into production fabric. |
Apr 18, 2024 |
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Advanced | Adopt |
[DCNM] 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. |
Apr 23, 2024 |
| Advanced | Adopt | [NDFC/DCNM] 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. |
May 22, 2024 |
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Advanced | Optimize |
[ACI] Upgrade Planning and Best Practices |
Join us as our experts walk you through the ACI upgrade process. The session will cover preparation steps, troubleshooting, and validating the ACI fabric upgrade. |
Apr 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 |
| Fundamental | Implement | [XDR] Starting your Journey with Cisco XDR | Join us as our experts walk you through streamlining the initial onboarding process for using Cisco Extended Detection and Response, also known as XDR. This session will provide a walk-through of the implementation and operation of the varying product components, including Cisco Secure Endpoint, Secure Cloud Analytics, Email Threat Defense, and their operation in Cisco XDR. This will also include operational best practices and implementation details in the operation of the response engine as well as the integration of Cisco XDR with non Cisco products. |
May 8, 2024 |
| 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. |
May 9, 2024 |
| 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. |
May 21, 2024 |
| 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. |
May 22, 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. |
May 28, 2024 |
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[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. |
Apr 30, 2024 |
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[Advanced] Optimize |
[Secure Firewall] Upgrading Cisco Secure Firewall Techniques and Scenarios |
This Ask the Experts session walks you through the upgrade process for Cisco Secure Firewall and its components. Become familiar with the compatibility matrix and pre-upgrade checks and actions, as well as how to determine system readiness for an upgrade. You will be provided with necessary upgrade steps and demonstrations based on different deployment scenarios. Follow along with our experts while they walk you through the steps to prepare, perform, and validate a successful Cisco Secure Firewall upgrade without headaches. |
Apr 24, 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. |
May 7, 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. |
May 15, 2024 |
| Advanced | Optimize | IOS XR7 Upgrade concepts and procedures | Learn more about upgrading IOS XR images with the appropriate licensing considerations on our session on Upgrades of IOS XR. Our experts will guide you through the steps required to perform a successful upgrade, including licensing requirements and utilization insights. By the end of the session, you'll have a clear understanding of the upgrade process. |
May 21, 2024 |
| Advanced | Optimize | 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. |
May 28, 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
