Installation Guide

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3 Key Features
The following table details the key features of Cisco Prime Assurance Manager.
Table 1 Cisco Prime Assurance Manager Key Features
For detailed information about Prime AM features, see the Cisco Prime Assurance Manager 1.1 User Guide.
Feature Function Benefit
Performance Monitoring
Centralized performance monitoring for
voice, video, and TCP-based applications
Gain visibility into the end-user experience, manage
business-critical applications in compliance with
service level objectives.
Traffic Analysis
Traffic analysis data collection, on-screen
indicators, and reports for WAN
optimization and data flow analysis.
Improve application performance by identifying
WAN optimization opportunities, detecting
abnormal traffic behavior, analyzing network
resource usage and throughput, including historical
trending
Performance Diagnostics
Problem scoping and isolation Drill-downs into granular performance data for
real-time visibility and troubleshooting
Multi-NAM Management
Automated NAM discovery, central packet
capture management, central reporting
from multiple NAMs, centralized
application classification to ensure
consistency across NAMs, central
provisioning of WAAS server lists for WAN
optimization visibility, contextual
cross-launch into NAM UI for more
granular analysis, centralized thresholding.
Quickly and easily leverage the power of multiple
NAM devices to deliver consistent application
experiences across global networks.
Centralized Reporting
Out-of-the-box, flexible,
customer-generated, scheduled, exportable,
executive-facing reports
Improve productivity and communication using
pre-packaged and custom sets of views of
performance data
Centralized Performance Data
Collection
Performance data access to internal and
external management applications,
abstract collection management
Allow customers easy access to Cisco embedded
intelligent instrumentation and probes, by
leveraging the automation of discovery,
configuration, collection, and maintenance
Usability
Provides out-of-the-box “zero touch”
monitoring using the current NAM,
NetFlow, SNMP and other data reported
by your network devices.
Leverage discovery and automation to provide
meaningful reporting with little to no configuration