Cisco Nexus Dashboard Advanced (DCNDA) Training Course
Length
3 days / 3 weeks
Price
$3999
Days
Mon - Fri
Why Choose This Course
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Advanced (DCNDA) is an instructor-led training course that shows you how to deploy and use Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights (NDI) and Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (NDO) to operate modern data center fabrics with confidence. You’ll learn how NDI collects switch telemetry, analyzes health and anomalies, and turns Day 2 data into clear actions. You’ll also see how NDO orchestrates consistent policies across multipod and multisite Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) environments.
Why it matters: enterprise data centers don’t fail because of one noisy alert—they drift over time. NDI’s assurance and resource analysis help you spot that drift early, while its dashboards and export options make it easier to collaborate with adjacent teams. NDO gives you a structured way to model intent and roll out changes across sites without hand-crafting configs. Together, they reduce operational risk and improve the quality of change.
You’ll learn through a mix of conceptual coverage and guided hands-on activities. Labs use a blend of simulation and live software to explore real-world scenarios for monitoring, troubleshooting, and policy orchestration. If you’re a network engineer, architect, or operator responsible for ACI fabrics or Nexus-based data center networks, this training is designed to help you learn and prepare for daily work. A certificate of course attendance is included.
Prerequisites
- There are no formal prerequisites for this course.
Exam
Books
Delivery
- Live virtual online training attend in real-time from anywhere
Skills Gained
- Install and configure Nexus Dashboard Insights on Cisco Nexus Dashboard
- Explain Day 2 operational needs and how NDI addresses them (health, anomalies, assurance)
- Interpret switch telemetry and correlate it in NDI dashboards
- Perform assurance analysis, including multisite assurance checks
- Conduct resource analysis to understand capacity and utilization trends
- Triage and act on alerts using NDI’s alert analysis features
- Use NDI export options to share operational data with downstream tools
- Integrate vCenter with NDI to correlate physical and virtual elements
- Describe NDO architecture, features, and common use cases
- Install and validate NDO platform support components
- Model and enforce multisite schemas and templates in ACI
- Explain intersite connectivity considerations for ACI multisite designs
- Coordinate multipod and multisite integration steps with NDO
- Orchestrate and verify NDO policies across distributed fabrics
Audience
Course Schedule & Pricing
Choose the schedule that fits your life — all options include full course materials & certification support
Full-time immersion for rapid certification readiness.
Balance your career while you upgrade your skills.
Maximum flexibility for busy working professionals.
Outline
- NDI overview and role in Day 2 operations
- Typical Day 2 operational tasks and challenges
- Installing NDI on Cisco Nexus Dashboard
- Configuring switch telemetry ingestion
- Assurance analysis fundamentals and workflows
- Multisite assurance concepts and checks
- Resource analysis and capacity insights
- Alert analysis and event correlation
- Navigating NDI dashboards for health and anomalies
- Exporting operational data from NDI (options and use cases)
- vCenter integration and physical–virtual correlation
- NDI assurance functions deep dive and lab exploration
- NDO overview: architecture and capabilities
- Platform support and installation process
- ACI multisite concepts and NDO’s role
- Intersite connectivity considerations
- Designing multisite schemas and templates
- Multipod and multisite integration patterns
- Orchestrating policies and validating outcomes
- Explore NDI dashboards and workflows (lab)
- Configure and review vCenter integration (lab)
- Use NDI assurance functions to troubleshoot (lab)
- Build and deploy NDO policies across sites (lab)
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