SDWOTS - Cisco SD-WAN Operations, Troubleshooting, and Best Practices

Accelerate your enterprise network's transition with the Cisco SD-WAN Operations, Troubleshooting, and Best Practices course, designed for IT professionals looking to master Cisco's advanced SD-WAN technologies and elevate their troubleshooting skills.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Deploy SD-WAN environments comprehensively.

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Configure and manage SD-WAN policies effectively.

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Implement robust SD-WAN security protocols.

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Troubleshoot and operate SD-WAN systems proficiently.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 5 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Engineering and Planning team evaluating WAN evolution
  • Personnel involved in SD WAN Design, Implementation and Operation
  • Network Operations team with SD WAN solution
  • Cisco partners who sell and support SD WAN solutions

Description

This five-day course covers the new deployment, options and features of version 20.x Cisco Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN). SD-WAN is an overlay architecture that overcomes the biggest drawbacks of traditional WAN. Students will learn how to design, configure and operate a Cisco SD-WAN utilizing any transport (MPLS, Broadband, LTE, VSAT etc.). Candidates will discuss and build an SD-WAN environment starting from Day 0 provisioning and will also be able to provide troubleshooting, management, policy control and application visibility across the enterprise network. This hands-on Course covers the Cisco SD-WAN product and contains extensive labs to reinforce the knowledge learned.

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Upcoming Course Dates

July 7-11, 2025

7:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Virtual: Online - America/Los_Angeles

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August 25-29, 2025

7:00 AM - 3:00 PM

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September 22-26, 2025

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Course Outline

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Module 1: Cisco SD-WAN Introduction

  1. Introduction and Background

  2. SD-WAN Concepts

  3. Solution Architecture Overview

Module 2: Cisco SD-WAN: Control Plane

  1. Deploying SD-WAN Control Plane

  2. SD-WAN Router Establishes Control Connection with vBond

  3. Devices and Controllers Identities

  4. Establishing the Control Plane

  5. Cisco SD-WAN Control Plane Overlay Management Protocol (OMP)

  6. Troubleshooting Control Connections

Module 3: Cisco SD-WAN: Data Plane

  1. Establishing the Data Plane

Module 4: Templates

Module 5: Policy Framework

  1. Control Policies

  2. Building, Applying, and Processing Centralized Control Policies

  3. Control, Data, Application Aware, VPN Membership, cFlowd, and Security Policies

  4. Central and Local Control Policy

  5. Central and Local Data Policy

  6. Application Aware Policy

  7. Creating a Centralized Policy

  8. VPN Membership Policies

  9. cFlowd Policy

  10. Security Policies

  11. Application Quality of Experience

Module 6: Data Plane Troubleshooting

  1. Troubleshooting BFD and Data Plane Tunnels

  2. BFD Troubleshooting

  3. Control Connections Related Issues

  4. Firewalls – Port Requirements

  5. NAT – Related Problems

  6. OMP

  7. Security Configuration

  8. ISP Problems with DSCP 48

  9. cEdge: In-depth Datapath Debugging

Module 7: Troubleshooting Policies

  1. Control Policy Failure Scenario No. 1

  2. Control Policy Failure Scenario No. 2

  3. Troubleshooting Data Policies and App-Route Policies

  4. Centralized Policies – Points of Failure

  5. Example 1: vManage Policy Deployment Failure

  6. Example 2: Policy Deployment on vSmart

  7. Example 3: Policy Deployment on vEdge

  8. Example 4: Policy Deployment on cEdge

  9. Tricky Problem

Module 8: Management and Operations

  1. Customer Deployment

  2. Use Case: Retail

  3. Controller Deployment

  4. Seamless Migration

  5. Multi-Segment Overlay

  6. Hub and Spoke Topology

  7. Secure Internet Access

  8. Cloud onRamp for SaaS

  9. Cloud onRamp for IaaS

  10. Redundancy

Module 9: SD-WAN Multi-Tenant

Appendix

  1. Troubleshooting Common Issues

  2. Interface Troubleshooting

  3. Troubleshoot vManage Common Issues

  4. Cisco SD-WAN Best Practices

Lab Outline

  1. Lab 0: Access the Lab Devices

  2. Lab 1: Onboard vSmart Controller

  3. Lab 2: Prepare a vEdge Router for Onboarding

  4. Lab 3: Prepare a cEdge Router for Onboarding

  5. Lab 4: Add vEdge to vManage Inventory

  6. Lab 5: Configure and Deploy vEdge Router Control-Plane

  7. Lab 6: Configure and Deploy cEdge Router Control-Plane

  8. Lab 7: Decommission a cEdge from vManage Inventory

  9. Lab 8: Adding a cEdge to vManage Inventory

  10. Lab 9: Configure and Deploy an Overlay Network

  11. Lab 10: Exploring vManage GUI

  12. Lab 11: Provision and Deploy vManage Feature Templates

  13. Lab 12: Provision and Deploy vManage CLI Templates

  14. Lab 13: Provision and Deploy Policies (Part 1)

  15. Lab 14: Provision and Deploy Policies (Part 2)

  16. Lab 15: Verifying and Troubleshooting Data Plane Issues

  17. Lab 16: TLOC Extension

  18. Lab 17: Troubleshooting Methods and Tools

  19. Lab 18: Using the REST API and Python Scripting

  20. Lab 19: Deploy Multitenant vManage

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