Gigamon Foundation: Learn the Essentials to Start on the Road to Success Training (GFND)

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The Gigamon GigaSECURE® Security Delivery Platform is the essential element in your organization’s security strategy. The Gigamon Foundation: Learn the Essentials to Start on the Road to Success Training (GFND) course is the first building block in learning how to implement and configure the GigaSECURE platform in your enterprise.

Through comprehensive discussions, real-world use cases and practical hands-on labs, this Gigamon Foundation: Learn the Essentials to Start on the Road to Success (GFND) course covers the foundational skills needed by security and network teams to understand how to initially configure Gigamon products and GigaSMART® features. The course will help you accelerate deployment and the expected ROI for security solutions that incorporate the GigaSECURE Security Delivery Platform.

Gigamon Foundation: Learn the Essentials to Start on the Road to Success Training (GFND)Duration: 2 days

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  • If you are familiar with some aspects of this Gigamon Foundation: Learn the Essentials to Start on the Road to Success (GFND) course, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
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  • If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the Gigamon Foundation: Learn the Essentials to Start on the Road to Success (GFND) course in manner understandable to lay audiences.
AUDIENCE/TARGET GROUP

The target audience for this Gigamon Foundation: Learn the Essentials to Start on the Road to Success (GFND) course:

  • Security, networking and cloud architects, administrators and operations staff who are Gigamon customers but new to Gigamon products
  • Gigamon partners who focus on security and networking and who are using Gigamon products for the first time
CLASS PREREQUISITES

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this Gigamon Foundation: Learn the Essentials to Start on the Road to Success (GFND) course are:

  • Data security protection and prevention fundamentals
  • Fundamentals of route switch technologies
Gigamon Foundation: Learn the Essentials to Start on the Road to Success Training (GFND) - OBJECTIVES

Upon completing this Gigamon Foundation: Learn the Essentials to Start on the Road to Success (GFND) course, learners will be able to meet these objectives:

  • The different Gigamon product layers and how they function as part of a security solution
  • How to plan for, and ultimately deploy, Gigamon products into your data center
  • Different sources of traffic and how they impact your overall security solution
  • How to install a new Gigamon GigaVUE® HC Series appliance into your network for the purpose of security monitoring
  • How to create flow maps to help ensure that the right traffic gets to the right tool at the right time
  • How to use GigaSMART features to improve your organization’s security posture
Gigamon Foundation: Learn the Essentials to Start on the Road to Success Training (GFND) - COURSE SYLLABUS

This course includes approximately 15 hours of instruction time, hands-on labs and several discrete and sequential modules that walk you through the materials covered:

Module 1: Gigamon Solution Overview

  • Gigamon Platform
  • GigaVUE FM, HC3, HC2, TA
  • Network TAPs

Module 2: Deployment, Planning and Installation of Gigamon Solution Components

  • Visibility challenges
  • Aggregate packets
  • Tunnelling traffic
  • Share packets
  • Optimize traffic
  • De-duplication
  • Performance Metrics
  • Filtering
  • Flow mapping

Module 3: Understanding Traffic Sources

  • Traffic source
  • SPAN / Mirror
  • TAPs

Module 4: Preparing for a Gigamon Solution Deployment

  • Port count
  • GigaSMART
  • GigaVUE H Series
  • GigaVUE TA Series
  • SSL decryption
  • Module requirements

Module 5: Gigamon Solution Installation and Initial Configuration

  • Installation and configuration
  • Cable management
  • CLI commands
  • Port setup

Module 6: Configuring Clustering

  • Clustering
  • Checklist
  • Plan the cluster
  • Port considerations
  • Diagram the cluster

Module 7: The Principles of Flow Mapping

  • Network packet broker basics
  • Filtering
  • Flow mapping

Module 8: GigaSMART Overview

  • GigaSMART traffic intelligence
  • GigaSMART flow and session level intelligence
  • SSL Decryption
  • SSL functionality
Gigamon Foundation: Learn the Essentials to Start on the Road to Success Training (GFND) Course Wrap-Up

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