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Outlines the core features and workflow of Cisco Crosswork Planning, dashboard customization, and design engine management to help users optimize, simulate, and monitor network environments effectively.
Visualize Network Models
Explains key concepts and procedures for creating, importing, viewing, managing, and customizing network models, including plan file operations, UI navigation, site assignments, topology visualization, and network summary tables.
Understand Plan Objects
Describes the management of plan objects, including nodes, sites, circuits, ports, SRLGs, and LAGs, and guides users through creation, configuration, and deletion procedures critical to network planning and operations.
Simulation Overview
Outlines network simulation use cases, automated resimulation processes, and the management of plan object states.
Simulate Traffic Flow from Source to Destination Using Demands
Explains demand modeling in network simulation, covering creation, configuration, traffic assignment, latency bounds, demand meshes, visualization, traffic modification, and deduction techniques to optimize network design and traffic engineering with Cisco Crosswork Planning.
Perform What-If Analysis
Describes methods for conducting what-if analysis by examining failure scenarios, performing failure and impact analyses of topology and metric changes, and illustrating these processes with practical examples.
Evaluate Impact of Worst-Case Failures
Guides evaluation of worst-case network failures by identifying critical traffic utilization, QoS violations, and latency, running simulation analyses, reviewing reports, leveraging failure visualizations, and configuring parallelization for comprehensive network resilience assessment.
Evaluate Impact of Traffic Growth
Outlines the tools and methodologies for forecasting traffic growth, developing and managing demand groupings, utilizing traffic tables, and constructing growth plans to predict and analyze future network demands.
Perform Capacity Planning
Outlines strategies and tools for optimizing capacity planning, including generating and interpreting reports to ensure efficient resource utilization.
Simulate IGP Routing Protocol
Describes IGP routing protocol simulation, covering IGP process ID management, OSPF and IS-IS simulation techniques, EIGRP simulation, multipath scenarios, simulation configuration, and multi-topology routing with task-based configuration procedures.
Simulate BGP Routing
Describes BGP routing simulation concepts, including AS types and configuration, route determination processes, BGP protocol features, and step-by-step procedures for modeling routes between internal and external ASes.
Simulate Quality of Service (QoS)
Explains Quality of Service simulation concepts, requirements, bound calculations, queue and service class management, policy configuration, global settings, and violation indicators to optimize network performance and resource allocation.
Simulate VPN
Outlines VPN simulation concepts, including VPN modeling, object and topology management, VPN creation and interface identification, and analysis techniques to support comprehensive VPN deployment and validation.
Simulate Advanced Routing with External Endpoints
Explains advanced routing strategies using external endpoints, demonstrating configuration, simulation, member specification, and traffic distribution to enhance network routing flexibility and evaluate use cases for integrating external resources.
Simulate Multicast
Describes multicast simulation capabilities, covering SSM parameter representation, comparison of discovered and simulated multicast flows, configuration of flow hops and next hop, demand creation and simulation, and tools to view and analyze multicast flows.
Optimize Metrics in the Network Core
Outlines strategies for performing metric optimization tasks, understanding tactical optimization concepts, and accessing metric optimization reports within the network core.
Configure MPLS Routing
Explains MPLS routing concepts, supported LSP types, LSP creation and path configuration, and troubleshooting procedures essential for deploying and maintaining MPLS networks.
Optimize LSPs
Describes tools and procedures for optimizing LSP operation, including disjoint path optimization, loadshare configuration, and setup bandwidth management.
Configure RSVP-TE Routing
Describes how Cisco Crosswork Planning simulates RSVP-TE routing. Unless otherwise noted, LSPs refer to RSVP-TE LSPs. Note that Cisco Crosswork Planning does not distinguish between LDP and RSVP-TE LSPs.
Optimize RSVP-TE Routing
Guides the optimization of RSVP-TE routing by outlining input property configuration, optimization parameters, disjoint groups, and avoidance constraints.
Perform Explicit and Tactical Explicit RSVP LSP Optimization
Outlines the principles, usage, and configuration of explicit and tactical RSVP-TE LSP optimization, covering execution methods and available options for efficient traffic engineering.
Configure Segment Routing
Explains Segment Routing configuration, including segment list concepts, SR LSP paths, Flex Algorithm creation, and SR-TE protection features to support scalable, flexible, and resilient SR deployments.
Optimize Segment Routing
Explains SR-TE and bandwidth optimization methods and reporting for advanced segment routing performance and traffic engineering.
Access Reports
Explains the types of reports available, including plan and traffic comparisons, and guides you on how to view and interpret report data for informed decision-making.
View Jobs
Outlines how to manage and review jobs, access output files, and execute tools or scripts through the CLI or external scripts.
Manage Add-ons
Outlines add-on management processes, including configuration requirements, user permissions, creation and editing procedures, import and export operations, and provides guidance for running add-ons and utilizing example configurations.
Update Configuration from One File to Another
Guides you through updating configurations using the Changeover tool and explains how to analyze generated reports to ensure successful migration.
Create and Use Patch Files
Explains the concepts, creation, application, and management of patch files, guiding users through understanding patch files, generating new patches, applying patches, and viewing or editing existing patch files.
Export Routes
Outlines export route capabilities, covering the overview of export routes, route table structures, table output details, and step-by-step procedures for exporting routes using the UI for efficient network planning and management.
Cross Table Filters
Outlines the cross table filters supported in Cisco Crosswork Planning.
Legend for Plan Objects
Outlines graphical representations and legends for plan objects, including interfaces, circuits, nodes, sites, demands, and LSPs, to help users interpret plan diagrams and symbols within the network management interface.