Cisco SD-WAN Operations Troubleshooting and Best Practices (SDWOTS) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1: Cisco SD-WAN Introduction

  • Introduction and Background
  • SD-WAN Concepts
  • Solution Architecture Overview

Module 2: Cisco SD-WAN: Control Plane

  • Deploying SD-WAN Control Plane
  • SD-WAN Router Establishes Control Connection with vBond
  • Devices and Controllers Identities
  • Establishing the Control Plane
  • Cisco SD-WAN Control Plane Overlay Management Protocol (OMP)
  • Troubleshooting Control Connections

Module 3: Cisco SD-WAN: Data Plane

  • Establishing the Data Plane

Module 4: Templates

Module 5: Policy Framework

  • Control Policies
  • Building, Applying, and Processing Centralized Control Policies
  • Control, Data, Application Aware, VPN Membership, cFlowd, and Security Policies
  • Central and Local Control Policy
  • Central and Local Data Policy
  • Application Aware Policy
  • Creating a Centralized Policy
  • VPN Membership Policies
  • cFlowd Policy
  • Security Policies
  • Application Quality of Experience

Module 6: Data Plane Troubleshooting

  • Troubleshooting BFD and Data Plane Tunnels
  • BFD Troubleshooting
  • Control Connections Related Issues
  • Firewalls – Port Requirements
  • NAT – Related Problems
  • OMP
  • Security Configuration
  • ISP Problems with DSCP 48
  • cEdge: In-depth Datapath Debugging

Module 7: Troubleshooting Policies

  • Control Policy Failure Scenario No. 1
  • Control Policy Failure Scenario No. 2
  • Troubleshooting Data Policies and App-Route Policies
  • Centralized Policies – Points of Failure
  • Example 1: vManage Policy Deployment Failure
  • Example 2: Policy Deployment on vSmart
  • Example 3: Policy Deployment on vEdge
  • Example 4: Policy Deployment on cEdge
  • Tricky Problem

Module 8: Management and Operations

  • Customer Deployment
  • Use Case: Retail
  • Controller Deployment
  • Seamless Migration
  • Multi-Segment Overlay
  • Hub and Spoke Topology
  • Secure Internet Access
  • Cloud onRamp for SaaS
  • Cloud onRamp for IaaS
  • Redundancy

Module 9: SD-WAN Multi-Tenant

Appendix

  • Troubleshooting Common Issues
  • Interface Troubleshooting
  • Troubleshoot vManage Common Issues
  • Cisco SD-WAN Best Practices