Packeteer Training

Packeteer's training and certification programs are designed to empower IT professionals inside customer or partner organizations. They provide the deep expertise necessary to ensure your Packeteer solutions deliver optimum availability of critical applications and data, and provide optimum application performance and employee productivity.

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PacketShaper Bootcamp (Length: 5 days)
 

Description

Duration: 5 Days

PacketShaper Bootcamp combines Packeteer Specialist and Packeteer Advanced Traffic Analysis and Troubleshooting courses in a condensed 5-day delivery. This instructor-led course guides a network-savvy candidate from basic PacketShaper operations to advanced analysis and troubleshooting topics in a mix of approximately 35% / 65% lecture and hands-on labs.

Course Objectives

This course is designed for individuals who wish to master operations, design, and troubleshooting of PacketShaper, and whose work schedules favor the intensive one-week course format.

Class Size

Minimum of 10 students, Maximum of 14 students

Prerequisites

Students must have a solid understanding of networking and detailed working knowledge of the TCP/IP protocol suite.

Course Outline

• PacketShaper Overview, Installation, and Configuration
• Advanced Classification, MPLS, and DSCP
• Classifying WAN Traffic
• Monitoring WAN Traffic
• Shaping Bandwidth Allocation
• Xpress Tunnel Compression and Acceleration
• Maintaining PacketShaper
• Essential Troubleshooting
• Report Tool & Customer Portal
• Packet Capture, Syslog, and Adaptive Response
• Managing Complex Multi-flow Applications
• Backing Up and Accessing Measurement Engine from the CLI
• Advanced PacketShaper Maintenance and Recovery
• Understanding PacketShaper Limits
• Dealing with Adverse Traffic
• Host Analysis and Containing Aggressive Hosts
• Building Complex Traffic Tree to Specifications

Packeteer Specialist Level I (Length: 3 days)
 

Description

Duration: 3 Days

The Packeteer Specialist - Level I course is the first level of training in the Packeteer Certification Training program. The aim of this 3-day course is to develop basic knowledge and skills sufficient to operate an installed PacketShaper on a day-to-day basis. The course is instructor-led and provides an effective mix of operational theory and hands-on performance-based exercises.

After successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the function/purpose, benefits, features and capabilities of Packeteer’s PacketShaper
• Install and configure the PacketShaper
• Classify network traffic
• Gain visibility into network and application behavior
• Control network traffic
• Compress network traffic
• Maintain the PacketShaper
• Troubleshoot network traffic problems
• Plan a PacketShaper deployment
• Implement a PacketShaper deployment
• Manage network application performance using the PacketShaper.

Course Modules

The Packeteer Specialist - Level I course is delivered in 10 modules. Details of what is covered in each module are described below.

1. PacketShaper Overview
2. Installing and Configuring PacketShaper
3. Classifying Network Traffic
4. Gaining Visibility into Network and Application Behavior
5. Controlling Network Traffic
6. Compressing Network Traffic
7. Maintaining PacketShaper
8. Troubleshooting Network Traffic
9. Planning PacketShaper Deployments
10. Implementing PacketShaper Deployments

Packet Shaper Level II – Advanced Traffic Analysis & Troubleshooting (Length: 3 days)
 

Description

Duration: 3 Days

This is an advanced technical training course that focuses on diagnosing and troubleshooting problems related to:

• application traffic visibility, control, and acceleration
• network performance gaps
• network integrity
• traffic flow
• PacketShaper hardware
• PacketShaper software and configuration
• PacketShaper capacities, limits, and performance

Delivery Format

Hands-on labs (75%) with Instructor-led review and discussion (25%)

Target Audience

The Packeteer Troubleshooting Course is oriented towards the learning needs of working IT professionals responsible for troubleshooting network application performance.

This course is recommended for the following groups:

• Customer Engineers
• System Engineers
• System Integrators
• Network Engineers
• Partners
• VARs
• Users.

Prerequisites

Completion of the Packeteer Specialist Certification

Course Content

The content covered in this course includes:

• Lab 1—Introduction (review of key concepts)
• Lab 2—Advanced Visibility, Control & Acceleration
• Lab 3—Problem Investigation Strategies
• Lab 4—Diagnostic and Troubleshooting Tools
• Lab 5—Troubleshooting Traffic Flow Problems
• Lab 6—Troubleshooting Network Topology Problems
• Lab 7—Troubleshooting PacketShaper Configuration and Corruption Problems
• Lab 8—Troubleshooting PacketShaper Hardware and Software Problems
• Lab 9—Troubleshooting PacketShaper Performance and Access Problems
• Lab 10—Understanding PacketShaper Capacities and Limits
• Lab 11—Wrap-up Exercise. Appendices—Troubleshooting Guide, Definitions, and other amplifying material

* When Specialist Level I and Advanced Traffic Analysis and Troubleshooting are scheduled back-to-back, Specialist Level I final day will end at 12:00pm Noon.

** When Specialist Level I and Advanced Traffic Analysis and Troubleshooting are scheduled back-to-back, Analysis and Troubleshooting first day will begin at 1:00 PM.

Locations:

Denver, CO:

Alternative Technology, Inc.
24 Inverness Place East
Englewood, CO
80112

Cupertino, CA

Packeteer-Cupertino
10201 N. De Anza Blvd
Cupertino, CA
95014

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Alternative Technology, Inc. Florida Office
550 West Cypress Creek Road
Suite 170
Fort Lauderdale, FL
33309

Toronto (Mississauga)

Alternative Technology, Inc. Toronto Office
1351 Matheson Blvd. E.
Unit #6
Mississauga, Ontario, L4W2A1

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