The Network Visibility Health Check - Configuration Review and Testing offering includes these activities:
Architecture Review
- Validate cabling against network diagrams and documentation
- Review and verify traffic identified (networks, devices, hosts) to be monitored / inspected
- Verify Tools: OOB Full-Term, OOB On-Demand, & Inline (malware detection, Data Loss Prevention, WAF, intrusion detection, etc.)
- Review external SSL decryption requirements and service (active or passive)
Network Packet Broker (NPB) Configuration Validation
- Validate network packet broker network service ports, tool service ports, and port groups configurations
- Validate filtering and load balancing configuration against monitoring/inspection requirements
- Validate Inline Settings: Priority-based packet filtering, High Availability (HA), etc.
- Validate Out-of-Band Settings: Ixia Fabric Controller (IFC) configuration validation - controller nodes, fabric nodes, Interconnect Port Groups configuration and capacity, etc.
Design and Generate Test Traffic
- Introduce Keysight Test tools and services
- Identify test traffic to be injected into customer environment (security spoofs, etc.)
- Inline Testing: Formulate test plan for inline production traffic
Manage Change Maintenance Windows
- Validate injected traffic to NPB Tool ports
- Validate injected inline traffic to Inline tools and its return to the network
- Validate Directional integrity of inspections
- High Availability (HA) failover validation
Provide Post-Testing Recommendations Summary and Details
Provide Basic End User Training
- Provide configuration guides, and best-practices concerning Keysight Infrastructure
- Advanced end user training is offered for an additional charge