| Brand |
Cisco |
| Product Type |
Data Center Network Manager |
| Version |
Release 5.2 |
| OS Compatibility |
Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and Java 6.21, Microsoft IE 7 and 8 |
| System Requirements |
Server : Hardware- (Small-Up to 5000 Ports) :Dual-core CPUs; 2 GHz, Memroy: 4 GB (For Large:5000 to 15000 ports) - 8 GB, Hard Disk : 40 GB (For Large:5000 to 15000 ports- 60GB), Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit), Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Release 5.4 (64-bit), Solaris 10, VMware ESX 4.0 and 4.1, Other: PostgreSQL 8.2, Oracle 10g XE(For Large:5000 to 15000 ports: Oracle 11g Enterprise); Client : Hardware - 2 GHz, Memroy: 1 GB, Hard Disk : 1 GB, Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7, Solaris 10; Red Hat enterprise Linux AS Release 5.4 (64-bit). |
| Feature 01 |
Virtual Machine-Aware Path Management: Cisco DCNM simplifies management of the virtual infrastructure by enabling management of the entire path through the physical to the virtual network across the whole data center environment. The VMpath views increase service availability by identifying bottlenecks in virtual machine and VMware ESX performance and extending visibility to the physical fabric. |
| Feature 02 |
Performance and Troubleshooting: Cisco DCNM helps IT ensure the resiliency of the Cisco SAN infrastructure by monitoring and providing alerts for fabric availability and performance. It provides near-real-time monitoring of fabrics with visibility into traffic spikes and establishes baseline traffic patterns. |
| Feature 03 |
Single-Pane of-Glass-Management: The interactive dashboard provides intuitive views into the top fabric users with the capability to view more details of key performance indicators (KPIs). Another view displays events based on their severity, with links to reports that show affected devices, leading to quicker root-cause analysis. |
| Feature 04 |
Proactive monitoring: Provides real-time network health summary with detailed view of individual network components, enabling operations staff to respond quickly to events based on their severity, Facilitates early detection and prevention of outages, increasing network availability, No rules to write; works immediately with prebuilt rules and thresholds. |
| Feature 05 |
Performance and capacity: Provides detailed visibility into real-time and historical performance statistics in the data center; Provides insight into port and bandwidth utilization, error count, traffic statistics, etc; Includes scheduled custom reports that can be offloaded for postprocessing. |
| Feature 06 |
VMpath Analysis: Provides view of VMpath through physical fabric to storage array and to the data store; Provides capability to view performance for every switch hop all the way to the individual VMware ESX server and virtual machine. |
| Feature 07 |
Topology views: Displays real-time operationally focused topology of the data center infrastructure; Offers Layer 2 topology maps to streamline the troubleshooting process and reduce the mean time to repair; mouse over topology to view detailed information about paths and switch attributes; Technology-specific overlays for vPC, Cisco FabricPath, VDC, and VLAN enable provisioning and efficient management of these features. |
| Feature 08 |
Reports: Lets you build custom reports from predefined templates across all fabrics, individual fabric, or VSANs; Provides easy-to-schedule reports that can be exported for postprocessing or sent by email. |
| Feature 09 |
Automated discovery: Using automated network discovery, provides up-to-date physical and logical inventory information; Tracks inventory and performance information in real time; information can be used as a source of truth for asset tracking or as a data source for a configuration management database (CMDB). |
| Feature 10 |
Configuration and change management: Provides predeployment validation of configuration changes, reducing opportunities for human error; Out-of-the-box configuration wizards are provided for critical Cisco NX-OS Software features such as vPC, VDC, and Cisco FabricPath; Using historical configuration archive coupled with config-compare, enables you to identify the last-known good state if configuration problems occur; Provides capability to back up configuration files from all switches. |
| Feature 11 |
Image management: Enables easy to use, nondisruptive (In-Service Software Upgrade [ISSU]) mass deployment of Cisco NX-OS Software images that can be scheduled or run on demand; Image upgrades are pre-validated, helping ensure compatibility with the running configuration, and in the event of a failure, rollback is initiated automatically. |
| Feature 12 |
Web services APIs: Abstracts the network to implement an IT service management framework (Information Technology Infrastructure Library [ITIL]) with a CMDB at its center as well as to integrate with business intelligence reporting solutions; Enables easy integration with third-party applications, allowing accurate flow-through provisioning and data mining; Enables integration into enterprise storage management systems through Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S)-based APIs. |
| Feature 13 |
Event forwarding: Enables integration with enterprise operations console (NOC) for alerts and events; Uses email and traps to notify operations staff of service disruptions. |
