This combination course covers all of the material and topics from the Arbor Peakflow SP User Training, but in greater detail. Additionally, participants learn how to deploy, configure and perform ongoing Peakflow SP administration functions.

Target Audience: Network operations personnel, security administrators and staff responsible for monitoring network anomalies and ensuring the peak performance of the Peakflow SP solution.

Location: Open-enrollment courses are delivered at the Arbor training facility in Chelmsford, MA USA. A private, on-site course is available at customer locations worldwide.

Duration: 3 days

Course Topics:

• Peakflow SP Technical Overview
• Hardware and Software
Architecture
• Web User Interface Overview
• User Interface Administration
• Using Peakflow SP for Infrastructure Security and Distributed Denial of Service
(DDoS) Protection
• Infrastructure Security Configuration
• Traffic and Routing Overview
• Peering Use Case
• Capacity Planning
• Traffic and Reporting Configuration
• Initial System Configuration
• Maintenance and Troubleshooting

• Understand Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and the typical attack methods used.
• Detect and classify different types of attacks.
• Explain how anomaly detection can identify malicious network behavior.
• Know how anomalies are presented in the Web user interface and how to interpret anomaly data.
• Correlate the attack information with the appropriate mitigation methods.
• Perform comprehensive searches through the anomaly database to pick out specific events.
• Describe and configure managed objects (e.g., customer, profile and virtual private network or VPN) within Peakflow SP.
• Navigate the GUI to produce desired reports.
• Set up user accounts with various levels of access.
• Create custom reports in XML or PDF formats.
• Automate the creation and distribution of custom reports that run hourly, daily or weekly.
• Produce peering reports that enable network operations to adjust route policy around congestion.
• Utilize information provided by Peakflow SP to evaluate peering relationships and enter into peering relationships with other ASNs when it makes sense.
• Ensure that the backbone/peering is utilized properly.
• Identify points of network congestion and define how to alleviate the congestion.
• Perform an initial configuration of a Peakflow SP server via the CLI.
• Define collector and router devices for monitoring.
• Create detection groups and define resources to be monitored.
• Describe the interface classification process and appropriately classify interfaces.
• Understand how a BGP blackhole works and how to configure one using the GUI.
• Configure Peakflow SP to produce SNMP, email or syslog alerts when high-level DoS anomalies occur.
• Explain how Peakflow SP uses NetFlow and BGP to gather network topology data.
• Describe how traffic is counted for managed objects.
• Perform system backup/restore and maximize Peakflow’s robust trouble-shooting tools.