All Riverbed course students are required to be proficient with Basic PC operation and application skills, Windows OS & Basic Web Browser operation (HTTP).
All courses are hands-on and consist of Lectures, Labs and Discussions.
Steelhead™ Appliance Deployment & Management
Duration: 4 days
Description: Steelhead Appliance Deployment & Management is a four-day, lab intensive course delivered by Riverbed technical experts. This task-oriented course
imparts the knowledge and skills needed to deploy and administer Riverbed Steelhead appliances in complex network environments.
Audience: This Riverbed Steelhead course is targeted specifically for Riverbed resellers/partners and customers involved in the
design, deployment, or administration/technical support of Steelhead appliances.
Pre-requisites: • Certification as a CCNP/CCIP or the equivalent internetworking knowledge extremely helpful (routing protocols, TCP/IP, network design,
and troubleshooting)
• Basic knowledge of the Linux operating system is helpful but not required
• Participants are required to bring along their own laptops
Topics Covered: • Course Overview
• Riverbed Technology Overview
• Riverbed Product Overview
• Steelhead Connection Interception
• Riverbed Deployment Options
• Transaction Prediction
• Riverbed service Platform (RSP)
• Top Deployment Problems & Troubleshooting
• Maintenance & Reporting
• RiOS HighSpeed TCP (HS-TCP) Optimization
• Deployment Planning & Performance Tuning
• Agentless CIFS Prepopulation
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Course Summary
• Optional: Proxy File Services (PFS)
Steelhead™ Mobile Client Installation & Configuration
Duration: 2 days
Description: Steelhead Mobile Installation & Configuration is a two-day, lab-intensive course delivered by Riverbed technical experts.
This task-oriented course imparts the knowledge and skills needed to deploy and administer the Riverbed Steelhead
Mobile Client, Steelhead Mobile Controller, and Steelheads in complex network environments.
Audience: This course is targeted specifically for Riverbed resellers/partners or customers involved in the design, deployment, or
administration/technical support of the Riverbed Steelhead Mobile Client, Steelhead Mobile Controller, and Steelhead appliances.
Pre-requisites: • Steelhead Appliance Deployment & Management course is required
• Certification as a CCNP/CCIP or the equivalent internetworking knowledge
extremely helpful (routing protocols, TCP/IP, network design, and
troubleshooting)
• Basic knowledge of the Linux operating system is helpful but not required
• Participants are required to bring along their own laptops
Topics Covered: • Course Introduction
• Product Overview
• Steelhead Mobile Controller
• Steelhead Mobile Client
• Steelhead Appliance & Steelhead Mobile Interoperability
• Steelhead Mobile Controller Customization
• Location Awareness/Auto-detection
• SSL Configuration
• Monitoring & Reporting
• Troubleshooting
• Course Summary
Central Management Console Configuration & Operations
Duration: 2 days
Description: Central Management Console Configuration & Operations is a two-day, lab intensive course delivered by Riverbed technical experts.
This task-oriented course imparts the knowledge and skills needed to deploy and administer the Riverbed Steelheads using the
Central Management Console (CMC).
Audience: This course is targeted specifically for Riverbed resellers/partners or customers involved in the design, deployment, or
administration/technical support of the Steelhead appliances and the CMC.
Pre-requisites: • Steelhead Appliance Deployment & Management course is highly recommended
• Certification as a CCNP/CCIP or the equivalent internetworking knowledge extremely helpful (routing protocols, TCP/IP,
network design, and troubleshooting)
• Participants are required to bring along their own laptops
Topics Covered: • CMC Overview
• CMC Configuration
o Lab: CMC Configuration
• Policies
• Appliance Groups
• Managing Appliances
o Lab: Manage Appliances and Groups
o Lab: Policies
• CMC Administration
o Lab: CMC Administration
o Lab: CMC Backup & Restore
• Reporting
o Lab: Reports
o Lab: Upgrade
o Lab: Auto-configuration
Cascade Configuration & Operations
Duration: 3 days
Description: Cascade Configuration & Operations is a three-day, lab-intensive course delivered by Riverbed technical experts.
This task-oriented course imparts the knowledge and skills needed to configure and administer the Riverbed Cascade
Solution.
Audience: This course is targeted specifically for Riverbed resellers/partners or customers involved in the design, deployment, or
administration/technical support of the Riverbed Cascade solution.
Pre-requisites: • Network monitoring and management concepts and tools such as NetFlow, network taps, packet capture and analysis, etc
• Certification as an RCSA/RSCP/ CCNA or the equivalent internetworking knowledge is very helpful (network design,
operations, and troubleshooting)
• Participants are required to bring along their own laptops
• Java is required to be installed and allowed in the browser of the students laptop
• Steelhead Appliance Deployment & Management training course is recommended
Topics Covered: • Course Overview
• Riverbed Cascade Product Overview
• Profiler Detailed Overview
• Profiler Initial Configuration
• Cascade Gateway, Flown & Device Integration
• User Account Setup & Quick Reporting
• Grouping
• Dashboards & Notifications
• Behaviour Analytics
• User Defined Policies
• Course Summary
Steelhead Appliance Operations & Troubleshooting (Focused on L1 & L2 Support)
Duration: 2 days
Description: Steelhead Appliance Operations & Troubleshooting is a 2-day, lecture, labs, and senario-based course delivered by Riverbed technical experts. This course imparts the knowledge and skills needed to maintain, operate, and troubleshoot Riverbed Steelhead appliances in network environments.
Audience: This course is targeted for support personnel involved in the day-to-day support, administration, and monitoring of Riverbed Steelhead Appliances.
Pre-requisites: • Certification as a CCNA or the equivalent internetworking knowledge extremely helpful (routing protocols, TCP/IP, network design and troubleshooting).
Topics Covered: • Course Overview
• Riverbed Technology Overview
• Riverbed Product Overview
• Steelhead Connextion Interception
• Riverbed Deployment Options
• Top Deployment Problems & Troubleshooting
• Riverbed Support
Stingray Application Delivery Controller - ADC200 Implementation Essentials
Duration: 5 days
Description: This 5 day solution-focused class offers an introduction to the Riverbed Stingray Application Delivery Controller solution with hands-on installation, configuration and reporting experience using the Stingray Traffic Manager, Stingray Aptimizer and Stingray Application Firewall solution with an introduction to TrafficScript.
Audience: This course is specifically designed for Riverbed customers and resellers/partners involved in the design or deployment of the Riverbed Stingray product family and servers as a foundation pre-requisite for ADC300 and ADC400 series courses.
Topics Covered: • Traffic Management Overview
• Pools & Virtual Servers
• Session Persistence
• Traffic IPs & Traffic IP Groups
• IP Addressing, Subnets, VLANs
• Initial Installation & Configuration
• Deployment Methods
• Managing Traffic Requests
• Bandwidth Management
• Rate Shaping
• SSL Encryption & Decryption
• Service Level Monitoring
• Optimizing HTTP Requests
• TrafficScript Basics
•
Aptimizer
• Web Content Optimization
• Initial Installation
• Application Firewall
• Deploying the Application Firewall
• Configuring Security Features