enterprise agents: deployment best practices
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Enterprise Agents: Deployment Best Practices
Archana KesavanProduct Marketing Manager
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About ThousandEyesThousandEyes delivers visibility into every network your organization relies on.
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• Software agents actively monitoring the network
• Monitor your SaaS, VoIP or internally hosted services through instrumented Tests
• Deployed within your enterprise network
Enterprise Agent
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Enterprise Network
DMZ
Proxy
CRMWeb
Branch Office
Branch Office
Home Office
Data Center
MPLS
MPLS
S2S VPN
VPN
Internet
Internet
Remote Office
Internet
Internet
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Choosing the Right Deployment Model WHAT: Virtual appliance WHEN: If you have hardware and software infrastructure to deployWHERE: Data centers, some Branch Offices
WHAT: Containers on Cisco IOS-XE ISR 4000 Series and ASR 1000 Series WHEN: Re-use existing hardwareWHERE: Branch Office, Remote location, WAN aggregation headend
WHAT: Physical installer for Intel NUCWHEN: Unable to install new hardware WHERE: Remote locations
WHAT: Docker ContainersWHEN: Manage and maintain a large number of Enterprise Agents WHERE: Data center, Branch offices
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Enterprise Agents: Where to Deploy?
DMZ
Proxy
CRMWeb
Branch Office
Branch Office
Home Office
Data Center
MPLS
MPLS
S2S VPN
VPN
Internet Internet
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1 WAN Monitoring 2 SaaS and ISP Monitoring 3 Voice/Web
Monitoring
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Deployment Guidelines
• Some tests are more intensive than others • Page Load & Transaction tests • Bandwidth and Throughput tests
• Agent-to-Agent tests are two tests in the backend • Enterprise Agents can be clustered• Recommended Agent load; < 75%• NAT Traversal and Proxy
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Demo
• Installing Enterprise Agents • Instant test with Enterprise Agent from Virtual Box• Reverse Path Agent to Agent Tests• Voice Quality metrics