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Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Solution Integrations Guide, Releases 26.x and Later

Onboarding Cisco ThousandEyes agents and configuring tests

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Describes a simplified workflow for onboarding Cisco ThousandEyes agents and configuring application monitoring tests directly from Cisco SD-WAN Manager.


Summary

The key components involved in onboarding Cisco ThousandEyes agents and configuring tests are:

  • Cisco SD-WAN Manager: Provides the central interface for establishing connections, configuring tests, and monitoring

  • Cisco ThousandEyes platform: Hosts the agents and executes the application monitoring tests

  • ThousandEyes agents: Perform the actual testing and monitoring of applications

  • Applications, sites, and devices: The targets for testing and monitoring activities

Workflow

These are the stages of onboarding Cisco ThousandEyes agents and configuring tests:

  1. Establish a connection to the Cisco ThousandEyes platform through SD-WAN Manager.
  2. Configure tests in Cisco ThousandEyes directly from SD-WAN Manager.
  3. Choose applications, sites, and devices for testing and configure the necessary parameters in SD-WAN Manager.
  4. Monitor the agents and tests from the ThousandEyes Monitoring dashboard in SD-WAN Manager.