| Brand |
Cisco |
| Product Type |
Prime Network |
| Version |
Software 5 |
| System Requirements |
Series: Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module Software; Latest Version: Prime Network Analysis Module Software 6.3; Previous Version: Prime Network Analysis Module Software 5.0 |
| Feature 01 |
Interactive reports: Offers prepackaged dashboards (Figure 3) with embedded workflows and capabilities such as advanced filters, contextual navigation, and one-click packet captures to simplify monitoring and accelerate troubleshooting. |
| Feature 02 |
Site-based monitoring: Allows you to view network and application performance by logical groupings or sites that you can create to mirror your network topology. For example, you can create sites by geographiclocations, departments, or even managed customer networks and view performance data on a per site basis.The feature facilitates tracking site-specific service-level objectives, resolving performance issues, orenforcing optimization policies. |
| Feature 03 |
Application performance intelligence: Analyzes TCP-based application packets as they travel from the client through the network to the data center and out again, providing transaction-aware analytics to helpcharacterize the end-user experience and isolate application response time problems to the network, server,or the application itself. |
| Feature 04 |
Voice quality analysis: Mean Opinion Score (MOS) and other key performance indicators (KPIs) such as jitter and packet loss to understand and improve how the end user experiences the delivery of voice services.MOS is computed based on ITU-T Recommendations G.107 offering accurate characterization of voicequality. Combine monitoring with real-time troubleshooting using pre-packaged dashboards to improve theend-user service levels. |
| Feature 05 |
Cisco Performance Agent (PA) reporting: Provides visibility into application response time and traffic statistics at the remote branch utilizing the Cisco PA supported on ISR 880, ISR 890, and ISR G2 platformswith Cisco IOS® Software Release 15.1(4)M. Deployed in conjunction with WAAS Express, this featuresallows an end-to-end view into the WAN-optimized network, delivering a cost-effective and scalable solution. |
| Feature 06 |
Flow- and packet-based traffic monitoring: Identifies what applications are running over the network, how much network resources are consumed, and who is using these applications and resources. Provides realtimeand historical reports offering traffic statistics related to applications, hosts, conversations, differentiatedservices code point (DSCP), and VLANs. |
| Feature 07 |
Cisco WAAS Central Manager (WCM) Integration: Easy access to performance reports from WCM facilitates quick assessment and validation of WAN-optimization benefits. Integrated offering delivers the most comprehensive solution for application performance monitoring and troubleshooting in a WAN optimization deployment. Unified management experience improves user productivity and enhances operational manageability for Cisco Borderless Networks Application Velocity solution. |
| Feature 08 |
NBAR-based application recognition: Cisco Prime NAM Software now supports standardized application identifiers generated by Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR) to help discover and identify applications, helping bring consistency to application recognition across the network. NAM accepts these identifiers as part of NetFlow Version 9 exports from technologies and network platforms such as Cisco Performance Agent and Cisco Catalyst® 6500 Series Switches. |
| Feature 09 |
Historical analysis with embedded Performance Database: Stores computed data so you can flash back to the past to learn what happened on your network when a particular event occurred. The data is available to analyze unanticipated performance issues and assess optimization needs. |
| Feature 10 |
Web-based captures for deep, insightful data analysis: Captures the packets to help resolve acute problems. Captures can be performed using a web browser from any desktop. Extensive capture features, including trigger-based captures, decodes, filters, and Packet Capture Error Scan, help to quickly pinpoint and resolve problem areas. |
| Feature 11 |
Standards-based API: Facilitates integration with customer in-house managed applications or third-party reporting vendor of choice. Eases configuration and export of computed NAM data, building up additional value and building out existing investments. Cisco Prime NAM Software 5 introduced the Representational State Transfer (REST)/XML-based API for configuration and NetFlow Version 9 for data export. |
| Feature 12 |
Anytime, anywhere access: Enables web-based access from any desktop, eliminating the need to send personnel to remote sites or haul large amounts of data over WAN links to the central site. |
| Feature 13 |
Benefits Summary: Cisco Prime NAM Software establishes a new landmark in terms of the ability to get to the appropriate information quickly, whether it is data that helps you respond to a help desk call on slow application performance, understand application performance before and after deploying Cisco WAAS, confirm that VoIP performance is rock solid at one of your international sites, or learn whether application performance has also made the leap with your migration from physical servers to virtual machines. |
| Feature 14 |
Enhance operational efficiency with faster problem detection and resolution: Cisco Prime NAM Software accelerates problem isolation and root-cause analysis, reducing the time it takes to resolve a performance issue from weeks and days to hours and minutes. The new graphical user interface (GUI) includes prepackaged dashboards with intuitive features, such as interactive reports, contextual navigation, and oneclick packet captures, that expedite the problem resolution process. |
| Feature 15 |
Simplify the delivery of applications and services: Managing application performance entails full visibility across all stages of application delivery, such as profiling, baselining, control, optimizaton, and troubleshooting. Cisco Prime NAM Software implements application performance analytics that can not only characterize the end-user experience but also provide performance visibility across the entire application delivery cycle. |
| Feature 16 |
Gain the most from WAN optimization initiatives: Cisco Prime NAM Software offers end-to-end application performance visibility in the WAAS environment. The visibility empowers you to effectively use Cisco WAAS to improve application performance. It measures and reports on application response time, transaction time, bandwidth usage for optimized and pass-through traffic, and LAN/WAN data throughput among other performance metrics across all WAAS segments. |
| Feature 17 |
Extend operational visibility into the virtual switching layer: As mission-critical workloads migrate to virtual servers, visibility into the virtual switching infrastructure becomes critical to manage end-to-end service delivery. Cisco Prime NAM Software provides operational insight into Cisco Nexus 1000V deployments to simplify manageability of the virtual switching infrastructure. |
| Feature 18 |
Reduce risk and management complexity with comprehensive network visibility: Cisco Prime NAM helps you in mitigating risk by providing deeper insight into the network when undertaking IT initiatives such as new application rollouts, data center consolidation, and WAN optimization. It helps you to ensure consistent performance levels, optimal use of network resources, and a minimal impact on business during such undertakings. |
