Using the NetScout Solution to Extract Value from Cisco Infrastructure
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NetScout Solution Extends the Value of the Cisco Infrastructure
The NetScout Performance Management Solution collects detailed information from all Cisco Intelligent Infrastructure devices and provides the performance analysis needed to conduct a wide variety of IT tasks and VoIP traffic that are essential for delivering business services to users and employees in a prompt and continuous manner. nGenius provides the following benefits:
- Enhances your investment in Cisco by extracting intelligence from the infrastructure
- Reduces the total cost of owning performance management by providing a single tool to take advantage of the multiple data source types in a Cisco-based network
- Improves capacity planning, troubleshooting, decision-making, and IT staff productivity by eliminating manual data correlation and providing a single list of the network’s most active applications, busiest ports, and top users, etc.
You have More Resources than You Think
On a daily basis, IT organizations are being asked to support increasingly complex applications, more users, different network topologies, and compliance initiatives – all undertaken with fewer resources. Yet when it comes to network performance management, IT may have more resources than they think. Enterprises and government agencies have invested heavily in Cisco infrastructure and VoIP products, each of which supplies different performance management intelligence.
Challenges of Multiple Data Sources: Costs and Correlation
In many networks with Cisco networking infrastructure devices, many critical traffic flow statistics already exist– those that count packets and errors like standard SNMP MIBs, those that track conversations, such as NetFlow, and those that provide application layer visibility, like NAMs. All the statistics from these data sources and VoIP traffic reveal important information regarding the performance of the enterprise network, and/or the applications and conversations flowing through it.
However, finding enterprise-wide support for collecting, aggregating and displaying that information from all these data sources has been elusive. Traditionally, performance management tools have only supported a single data source and a single function (i.e., troubleshooting or capacity planning). This forced IT organizations who wanted value out of their networks to purchase multiple products, which required multiple servers, product training courses, maintenance contracts, and vendors to manage. On top of these costs, is the tedium and inaccuracy of having to manually correlate information from across products in order to gain intelligence on the total network.
Put the Cisco Infrastructure Intelligence to work for you with the NetScout Solution
- NetScout’s innovative CDM Architecture enables collection of data from multiple sources throughout the network (MIB II, NetFlow, nGenius Probes), including from existing Cisco network and VoIP deployments, enabling full, enterprise-wide coverage and a true representation of most utilized segments, virtual circuits, switch ports or applications.
- The NetScout Solution encompasses a broad variety of performance management activities in a single product, including troubleshooting, capacity planning, response time analysis, VoIP management and reporting.
- A single, holistic solution reduces the number of performance management applications needed and the associated costs, including multiple servers, maintenance contracts, training classes, product experts, and vendor relationships.
- Seamless analysis of all Cisco data sources enables usage of the appropriate source for the appropriate task, i.e., using NetFlow for capacity planning decisions, NAM for real-time troubleshooting of a switch port problem, Cisco's H.323, SCCP and SIP VoIP, and IP SLA for DHCP service availability testing.
- Side-by-side displays of information, regardless of source, provides the context and comparison required to quickly and effectively address network and application performance issues.
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| nGenius incorporates details from every intelligent data source in the Cisco network and displays them side-by-side data from nGenius Probes for more complete network analysis. |
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Enabling Products
To find out more information about NetScout’s nGenius and Sniffer products click on the appropriate category links below:
- Network Analysis and Reporting – packet/flow-based analysis software for comprehensive network visibility
- Advanced Intelligence – early detection and in-depth analysis of complex or specialized application services
- Continuous Packet Capture – long-term packet capture for real-time and retrospective network troubleshooting
- Distributed Network Monitoring – robust, versatile monitoring devices for LAN and WAN environments
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