Application Response-time Reporting in a Cisco WAAS Environment
Overview
To help companies optimize application response times across the wide area network (WAN), Cisco has embedded into its Wide Area Application Engine (WAE) devices a technology called Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Flow Agents. This technology forwards application traces to the Cisco Network Analysis Module (NAM), making it possible for the user organization to understand the customer experience from all network locations without excessive deployment costs.
Complementing Cisco WAAS, InfoVista’s 5View™ Service Data Manager (SDM) Cisco NAM Configuration Option allows for the aggregation and correlation of data from multiple Cisco NAM devices into a single database and reporting application. This enables service providers and large enterprises to identify, capture and deliver customer experience measurements by leveraging the NAM-collected statistics.
In addition, the information that the NAM Configuration Option delivers can be optionally presented through InfoVista’s VistaInsight® for Networks portal, linking infrastructure and application data, and enabling truly unified application, service, and network infrastructure monitoring on a single platform.
Key Benefits
InfoVista’s 5View™ Service Data Manager Cisco NAM Configuration Option offers powerful, cost-effective application performance monitoring and reporting support for Cisco WAN optimization and application response time solutions. The option helps service providers and large enterprises to:
- Streamline time to market of Cisco WAN optimization solutions, accelerating return on investment (ROI)
- Visualize optimized applications and bandwidth to aid in troubleshooting of poorly performing network segments
- Identify Cisco WAAS configuration inefficiencies, ensuring critical application traffic is performing optimally
Key Features
InfoVista’s 5View™ Service Data Manager Cisco NAM Configuration Option provides:
- Unified network, service and application reporting and troubleshooting for a Cisco NAM environment
- Aggregation, storage and presentation of Cisco NAM data through InfoVista 5View Service Data Manager
- Support for a carrier-class multi-tenant Cisco NAM environment
- Near real-time consolidation of NAM application-related metrics leveraging the NAM HTTP/HTTPS API
- A full set of application-related statistics based on Cisco NAM metrics
- KPI display through a variety of predefined or custom reports
- Support of NAM V4.1 and the following devices:
- Cisco WAAS NAM Virtual Blade (NAM-WAAS-VB)
This first offering of NAM as a software product, integrated on Cisco WAAS appliances, helps customers to rapidly deploy WAN optimization solutions - Cisco Branch Routers Series NAM (NME-NAM-120S)
This module is integrated in the Cisco 2800 and 3800 Series ISRs to provide performance analysis in the empowered branch - Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco 7600 Series NAM (WS-SVC-NAM-1-250S ,
WS-SVC-NAM-2-250S )
This integrated services module helps improve operational manageability of network resources on the enterprise campus, and in the data center and WAN - Cisco NAM 2200 Series Appliances (NAM-2204, NAM-2220)
An extension of the Cisco NAM blades, these appliances offer next-generation performance, superior scalability, and maximum deployment flexibility - Cisco NAM multi-appliance support per 5View SDM server license
- Cisco WAAS NAM Virtual Blade (NAM-WAAS-VB)
