Total sFlow for engineers

Description

Total sFlow training course description

A comprehensive hands on course covering sFlow. The course starts with the basics of flows moving swiftly onto configuring sFlow and studying the information it provides.

What will you learn

• Describe sFlow.
• Use Nmap.
• Recognise how sFlow can be used.
• Describe the issues in using sFlow.
• Compare SFlow with SNMP and NetFlow.

Total sFlow training course details

Total sFlow training course content

• What is SFlow?

Where to monitor traffic. Packet based sampling, Time based sampling. Adaptive sampling. Flow samples, Counter samples.
Hands on Wireshark flow analysis.

• Getting started with sFlow

sFlow configuration. Enabling sFlow. Per interface.
Hands on Accessing sFlow data using the CLI.

• sFlow architecture

SFlow agents and collectors. When flows are exported. Distributed sFlow architecture, subagents. sFlow reporting products. SolarWinds.
Hands on Collector software.

• sFlow features and benefits

Troubleshooting with sFlow, controlling congestion, security and audit trail analysis.
Hands on Using sFlow.

• sFlow versus other technologies

Flows. sFlow impact and scalability. sFlow versus SNMP and RMON, SFlow versus NetFlow/IPFIX.
Hands on Advanced sFlow configuration.