ACE Analyst Training

<Note: ACE Plus is now known as ACE Analyst>

Self-Guided Training

If you are unable to attend one of the instructor-led training classes, there are numerous self-guided resources available to learn how to use ACE Analyst effectively.

You can get started with ACE Analyst in as little as 6 hours by following this agenda:

- Watch the first 3 Training Videos (1 hour)

- Complete the first 5 tutorials (3 hours)

- Complete the first of the Training Videos with Labs (2 hours)

Training Videos

Streaming videos provide demonstrations of using ACE Analyst to solve real problems.
- Overview of ACE Analyst (18 minutes): general overview of the product
- Solve Application Performance Problems by Understanding Root-Causes (45 minutes): detailed demonstrations showing different analysis capabilities.
- Importing into ACE (23 minutes): example of importing a packet capture into ACE Analyst, and troubleshooting the application.
- Ensure Application Performance over the Network with End-to-End Analytics (65 minutes): includes demonstrations of reporting features, QuickPredict, and QuickView.
- Troubleshoot Performance Problems in Networked Applications (60 minutes): introduces ACE Enterprise Management Server.
- End-to-End Performance Management with ACE Analyst, Panorama, and SLA Commander (46 minutes): illustrates how 3 products are integrated to monitor, troubleshoot, and solve application problems.

Training Videos with Labs

Streaming videos provide classroom-like instruction, with full step-by-step labs.
- Application Capture and Import Strategies with ACE (1 hour, 11 minutes): dowload labs here.

Tutorials

Tutorials are provided when you install ACE Analyst, under the "Help" menu, or get them from the Support Center. Tutorials are written step-by-step labs.
- ACE Quick Start

- Two-Tier Oracle Application

- FTP Application

- ACE Whiteboard Tutorial: Creating a New Application Model

- ACE Whiteboard Tutorial: Modifying an Existing ACE File

- Impact of TCP Window Size on a File Transfer

- Impact of Retransmissions on a File Transfer

- Examining a Web-Based Oracle Application

- Examining a Sybase Application

- ACE Whiteboard (Advanced)

Instructor-Led Training

Classroom-Based training is the best way to learn the material. This allows for a more personal interaction with the instructor, and a classroom environment is more conducive to learning.

Instructor-Led Web-Based training allows you to take a class from your own office. You will view the instructor's machine, and have the opportunity to interact and ask questions.

Introduction to ACE Analyst

(2 days, Classroom-Based)

Prerequisites:
Basic understanding of applications, networking, and protocols.

Course Description:
Through labs and lecture, this course teaches you the fundamentals of using ACE Analyst (formerly ACE Plus). You will learn how to capture, filter, and import packet traces to study application behavior, analyze and predict TCP behaviors that impact application performance, and create models of applications with ACE Whiteboard.

Agenda:

Day 1

ACE Analyst workflow and methodologies
Application capture and import strategies
Planning application deployments

Day 2

Troubleshooting and predicting application performance
Troubleshooting and predicting the impact of TCP on application performance
Modeling applications with the ACE Whiteboard

ACE Analyst Web-Based Training

(4 hours)

Note that this course is taken online, so you may attend from wherever you have a reliable internet connection. When you sign up for this course, you will receive an email with instructions on how to log in to the session.

Prerequisites:
Basic understanding of applications, networking, and protocols.

Course Description:

This session introduces the methodologies and fundamentals of

ACE Analyst and prepares you for many of the ACE Analyst

sessions offered from OPNETWORK in Track 14: Application

and Server Performance.

Agenda:

ACE Analyst functionality and workflows
Troubleshooting poor application performance with ACE Analyst
Predicting application behavior with ACE Analyst
ACE Analyst visualization charts and graphs
ACE Analyst statistics and diagnoses
Generating reports with ACE Analyst