This two-day course provides the opportunity for students to develop the knowledge and skills required to configure, operate, monitor, and maintain Paragon Active Assurance deployments. The goal of the Paragon Active Assurance course is to give students hands-on experience with the tools they require to effectively use and manage Paragon Active Assurance Control Center and the Test Agents.

• Deploy and administer Paragon Active Assurance.
• Monitor and test network performance using Paragon Active Assurance.
• Integrate Paragon Active Assurance into OSS.
• Test site activation using Paragon Active Assurance.

DAY 1

1. Course Introduction

2. PAA Solution Components

• PAA Overview
• Passive and Active Monitoring
• Use Cases

3. Test Agent Architecture

• Test Agents Overview
• Appliance
• Application

Lab 1: Test Agent Registration

4. Tests

• Overview
• Types of Tests
• Test Status

Lab 2: Site Activation Testing

DAY 2

5. Monitors

• Overview
• Types of Monitors
• Monitor Status

Lab 3: Continuous Network Performance Monitoring

6. Testing and Monitoring Templates

• Overview
• Types of Templates

Lab 4: Working with Templates

7. Getting Ready with REST APIs

• Overview
• Main Concepts
• SWAGGER tool
• Use Cases

Lab 5: Automation via REST APIs

8. Management and Integration with OSS

• Inventory
• Alarms
• SNMP
• Applications
• OSS Integration

A Appendix: NETCONF and YANG APIs

• NETCONF
• YANG

B Appendix: Lifecycle Management

• Overview
• Fundamentals for the PAA Installation
• Service Configuration
• Monitoring System Health
• System Troubleshooting

Networking architects and operators, system engineers, DevOps, and IT professionals, anyone individual responsible for identifying, understanding, troubleshooting, and resolving issues in service provider networks.

• Basic TCP/IP skills
• Attendance of the Introduction to Paragon Active Assurance (IPAA) course prior to attending this class
• Basic knowledge of network routing is recommended