VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance: Install, Configure, Manage [V2.0]

1 Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 Introduction to VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance

• Describe the features of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
• List the capabilities of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
• Discuss the use cases of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
• Describe the role played by VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance components in delivering service assurance
• List the architecture components of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance

3 Deploying VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance

• Explain different deployment options of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
• Identify different deployment methods of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
• Discuss different phases in deploying VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
• Identify different footprints available for HA based and non-HA based installation of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
• Describe the Smarts components of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
• Deploy VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance

4 User Access Control

• Describe the features Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
• Outline the role of Keycloak in implementing RBAC in VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
• Configure user federation in Keycloak
• Use the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance UI to manage RBAC
• Create policies in VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance that align with job roles

5 Services and User Interface Configurations

• Describe the core services on a TCSA cluster
• Discuss the Global Manager or Service Assurance Manager (SAM), IP Domain Manager, Server Manager (ESM)
• Discuss VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance UI Overview
• Discuss 5G integration options in VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
• Explain Working with Notifications
• Explain Viewing and configuring Topologies
• Describe Topology Explorer
• Explain Collecting Troubleshooting Information
• Discuss Custom models
• Describe how compute resources are provided to VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
• Describe how storage is provided to VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
• Configure and manage VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
• Discuss configurable options for VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance

6 Day 1 and Day 2 Operations

• Identify different data sources to be used with VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
• Configure different collectors with VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
• Describe Alarms and Thresholds
• Demonstrate how to configure alarms with VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
• Explain how to setup thresholds and timelines in VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance

7 Logs and Troubleshooting

• Identify the installation logs of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
• Discuss VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance installations logs
• List Smarts installation logs
• List the Kubernetes CLI commands that are used for troubleshooting
• Identify the approach for troubleshooting containerized services
• Discuss monitoring services