Cisco Nexus Dashboard Advanced (DCNDA)

In this Data Center Nexus Dashboard Advanced course provides a comprehensive exploration of Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights (NDI) and Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (NDO), focusing on visibility, assurance, and policy orchestration for modern data center fabrics. It begins by introducing Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights and its role in addressing Day-2 operational challenges through advanced telemetry, analytics, and assurance capabilities. Learners gain a clear understanding of how switch telemetry, resource analysis, alerts, and dashboards provide deep operational insight across single-site and multisite environments.
The curriculum emphasizes assurance-driven operations, covering health scoring, anomaly detection, multisite assurance, and proactive troubleshooting. Participants learn how to analyze fabric behavior, interpret alerts, export operational data, and apply NDI insights to real-world use cases. Integration with virtualization platforms such as vCenter is also explored, enabling correlation between virtual and physical infrastructure for faster root-cause analysis.

The course then expands into Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator, detailing its architecture, platform support, and deployment models. Learners examine multisite and multipod designs, intersite connectivity, schemas, templates, and policy orchestration across distributed Cisco ACI fabrics. Through hands-on labs, participants explore NDI assurance functions, configure vCenter integration, and orchestrate NDO policies. By the end of the course, learners are equipped to use Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights and Orchestrator to achieve end-to-end visibility, proactive assurance, and consistent policy management across complex data center environments.

How You'll Benefit

This training will help you: 

• Learn how to deploy and use Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights and Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestration to successfully monitor data center networks, and to provision a Cisco ACI-based multisite network
• Gain leading-edge skills for a career focused on data center technology
• Earn 24 CE credits toward recertification

• Describe Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights
• Describe day-2 operational needs
• Describe the Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights installation on Cisco Nexus Dashboard
• Describe Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights switch telemetry
• Describe assurance analysis including multisite assurance
• Describe resource analysis
• Describe alerts analysis
• Describe Cisco NDI dashboards
• Describe the options for exporting data from NDI
• Describe Cisco NDI use cases
• Explore Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights
• Explore vCenter Integration with Cisco NDI
• Explore Cisco NDI Assurance functions
• Describe Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator
• Describe Cisco NDO features and use cases
• Describe Cisco NDO platform support and the installation process
• Describe Cisco intersite connectivity
• Describe multisite schemas and templates
• Describe multipod and multisite integration
• Orchestrate Cisco NDO policies

Who Should Enroll

• Data Center Network Administrators
• Data Center Network Operators
• Data Center Architects
• Data Center Engineers
• Data Center Technical Managers
• IT Managers/Directors
• Account Managers

The knowledge and skills you are expected to have before attending this training are: 

• Understanding of Cisco routing and switching in a data center
• Fundamentals of network management and network operation
• Understanding of Cisco ACI

These skills can be found in the following Cisco Learning Offerings:   

• Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations (DCFNDU)
• Implementing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (DCACI)

OUTLINE
MODULE 1: Cisco Nexus Dashboards Insights Overview 

Module 2: Day-2 Operational Needs 

Module 3: Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights Installation on Cisco Nexus Dashboard 

Module 4: Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights Switch Telemetry 

Module 5: Assurance Analysis Including Multisite Assurance 

Module 6: Resource Analysis 

Module 7: Alerts Analysis 

Module 8: Explore Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights 

Module 9: Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights Dashboards 

Module 10: Options for Exporting Data from Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights 

Module 11: Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights Use Cases 

Module 12: Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights Integration with vCenter 

Module 13: Explore Cisco NDI Assurance Functions 

Module 14: Cisco NDO Overview 

Module 15: Cisco NDO Features and Use Cases 

Module 16: Cisco NDO Platform Support and Installation 

Module 17: Cisco NDO with Cisco ACI Multisite 

Module 18: Intersite Connectivity 

Module 19: Multisite Schemas and Templates 

Module 20: Multipod and Multisite Integration 

Module 21: Orchestrate Cisco NDO Policies 

 LAB OUTLINE

• Explore Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights
• Configure and Explore vCenter Integration with Cisco NDI
• Explore Cisco NDI Assurance Functions
• Orchestrate Cisco NDO Policies