Deploying Cisco ThousandEyes with Cisco SDWAN

Deploying Cisco ThousandEyes with Cisco SDWAN

Deployment of Cisco ThousandEyes into Cisco SD-WAN platform offers the following benefits:

• Cisco ThousandEyes integration with Cisco SD-WAN enables the Cisco SD-WAN overlay and the underlay transport network testing.
• With end-to-end application performance visibility and network overlay and underlay visibility, you can quickly detect and rectify issues while improving the user experience.
• More application monitoring can provide a better experience regardless of where the application is hosted.
• The Cisco ThousandEyes integration sorts of visibility between on-premises Cisco SD-WAN and cloud-hosted Cisco SD-WAN.

Deploying Cisco ThousandEyes on Cisco SD-WAN Catalyst 8000 or ISR 4000

Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agents run natively on Cisco routers with IOS XE network software stack (17.6.1). This integration can enable rapid and scalable deployment of Cisco ThousandEyes vantage points on Cisco Catalyst 8300 and 8200 Edge Platforms and ISR 4000 Series for branch and campus WAN edge.

You can orchestrate the deployment and initial provisioning of Cisco ThousandEyes agents across all the Cisco SD-WAN branch routers anywhere from a centralized console, from Cisco vManage.

The benefits of Cisco ThousandEyes deployment on Cisco SD-WAN Catalyst 8000 or ISR 4000 are as follows:

• You can deploy Cisco ThousandEyes vantage points on Cisco Catalyst 8300 and 8200 Edge Platforms and ISR 4000 Series for the branch and campus WAN Edge rapidly and scalable.
• Reducing OpEx and CapEx to install and manage any additional resources.
• You gain the ability to activate vantage points across multiple paths to detect issues from branch and campus endpoints to applications.

Cisco ThousandEyes Container Architecture

The Enterprise Agents use Docker containers to provide deployment across different Linux distributions. You can gain benefits with enterprise agents on Docker because it increases operational efficiency when deploying and managing large clusters.

Also, it is possible to automate the deployment of large numbers of Enterprise Agents with container orchestrators like Kubernetes or Docker Swarm. Containers can also be dynamically spawned or rebuilt across virtualized infrastructure, providing high availability, and significantly reducing maintenance window times to optimize operations.

Deployment process—ThousandEyes Template

To download the ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent Docker application, log into your Cisco ThousandEyes account and follow the path below: