This post will go over the first scenario for the ThousandEyes lab. To see past posts in this series expand the box below.
- Part 1 – The What and the Why
- Part 2 – Lab build
- Part 3 – Enterprise and Endpoint Agent Installs
- Part 4.1 – SNMP Monitoring
- Part 4.2 – Scenarios and Test Types
- Part – 4.3.1 Scenario 1 – Enterprise agent to agent test configuration <–You Are Here
- Part 4.3.2 – Scenario 2 – Enterprise DNS test configuration
- Part 4.3.3 – Scenario 3 – Enterprise and Endpoint HTTP test configuration (Coming soon)
- Part 4.3.4 – Scenario 4 – Enterprise Page Load test configuration (Coming less soon)
- Part 4.3.5 – Scenario 5 – Enterprise Transaction test configuration and Endpoint Agent Browser Settings (Coming more less soon)
- Part 4.4+ – Details TBD
There are some behind-the-scenes posts that go into more detail on how and why I took the approach that I did. Those can be found here:
- Behind the Scenes – The Lab Build
- Ok, there’s only one so far, but I plan to add more where it makes sense.
Scenario 1
Create an Enterprise agent-to-agent test
- Log in to ThousandEyes (I presume this skill has been mastered by now)
- On the left side, expand the menu, then click on Cloud and Enterprise Agents to expand that list, and then click Test Settings
- Click Add New Test.
- This will be an agent-to-agent test. For the layer select Network, and then under Test Type select Agent to Agent.
- Under Basic Configuration there are a few things to set here.
- Click in the Target Agent field
- On the right side, click Enterprise to filter the list down to only our Enterprise agents
- NOTE: the agents listed here are Cloud agents, and those can be used to test public services from locations all over the world
- Select the CS1-2 agent
- The interval is how often these tests are performed. Since this is a lab we’ll back this off to a 30-minute interval to reduce the number of tests being run.
- In the Agents field, we’ll select the source agents. Again, filter based on Enterprise agents, and then select all agents except CS1-2
- NOTE: Selecting the North America group (or your local region) will include the CS1-2 agent, and that won’t allow the test to be created because a source and target are the same.
- Under Direction, select Both Directions
- Leave the Protocol option set to TCP
- Check the box to Enable Throughput monitoring, then leave the duration with the default 10s time.
- Leave Path Trace Mode unchecked
- Uncheck the Enabled box next to Alerts. We’ll cover alerts later on in this series
- When everything is completed it should look like this:
- Click Create New Test
- Click the ellipsis (…) to the right of the test, and then in the menu click Duplicate
- Correct the test name
- Change the Target Agent to CS2-2
- In the Agents field uncheck CS2-2 and check CS1-2
- NOTE: If you can’t uncheck CS2-2 then click the box next to the region, and that should unselect all agents. Then reselect all agents except CS2-2
- When complete it should look like this:
- Click Create New Test again