TR01 - Basic Network Analysis using the Observer® Analyzer
This 2 day course is designed to teach students solid, basic network management skills using a network analyzer. This class also provides a logical troubleshooting approach to capturing and analyzing data frames. With this knowledge, students can effectively troubleshoot, maintain, optimize and monitor network traffic.
Key Benefits
• Quickly develop your Network Analysis skills using the Observer analyzer
• Increase your company's productivity by proactively identifying network problems
2 Days, $1295
Objective:
Learn to use a network analyzer to discover where problems exist and implement solutions. Be familiar with and understand Ethernet specifications, principles, and physical layer components. Be able to recognize differences between problems in the network and problems in higher-layer processes. Determine a solid approach for troubleshooting Ethernet by understanding the concepts that define the Ethernet environment. Understand how to use a network analyzer in switched, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet environments
Course Agenda - Day 1
• Protocol analyzers (Types, Differences, How they work, OSI Model)
• Getting Started (Menus, Screens, HELP, Options)
• Capturing network traffic (Selecting source, Configuring Capture buffer)
• Expert system (What is Expert?, Architecture)
• Capturing in Expert mode (Details of Expert windows, Expert HELP)
• Expert data
• Viewing frames (Using windows, Searching for frames, Names tables)
• Applications (Response time, Determining Efficiency)
• Filters (Display and Capture filters, Offset filters, Frame slicing)
• Saving (Trace files, Screen data)
• Triggers (Enabling and setting triggers to start / stop capture)
• Techniques (Troubleshooting, Baselining, Typical problems)
• Advanced functions (Configuring Expert Thresholds, Traffic Monitoring)
Course Agenda - Day 2
• 802.3 and Version 2 Ethernet
• Manchester signal encoding
• Ethernet frame formats
• Frame type interoperability
• Analyzer configurations for Ethernet
• Function of MAC and physical layers in frame transmission and reception
• Physical and Data Link layers (CSMA/CD, Collision detection, Repeaters and Hubs)
• Concentrators and Category 5 Cabling
• 10BASE-T, 10BASE-2, 10BASE-5, 100BASE-T, 1000BASE-T
• Fast Ethernet Back Pressure and Gigabit Ethernet Pause Frames
• Auto Negotiation
• Timing specifications (Collision domains, Propagation speed, 5-4-3 rule)
• Troubleshooting methods (Propagation delay, Retransmissions)
• Legitimate vs. late collisions, Signal reflection, Electrical noise, Hardware problems
• Hub jam, Frame corruption, Fast Ethernet Collisions
• Protocol Functions, Addressing Functions, Logical Link Layer Control
• Bridging / Switching Functions - Impact on Network Design
• 802.1 Spanning Tree Algorithm
• Routers
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