Specifications

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All rights reserved.
Introduction 1-38
NAM / Traffic Analyzer v3.5 Tutorial
© 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Introduction 1-38
NAM / Traffic Analyzer v3.5 Tutorial
Cisco Complementary Solutions
Performance Visibility Manager (PVM)
Cisco Complementary Solutions
Performance Visibility Manager (PVM)
• Centralized
configuration and
control of data
sources
• Aggregated views and
reports from multiple
data sources
• Proactive alerting
• Strong reporting
• Web-based client
• API and integration
NAM Adapter
Switch/Router
Adapter
NAM-1
NetFlow data exported to NAM
NAM data
Reporting, Monitoring, Administration
Presentation
Layer
Analysis, Aggregation, Correlation, Baselining,
Trending, Alerting
Mediation
Layer
Collection
Layer
Data Store
NAM-2
PVM
“Better visibility means better business
“Better visibility means better business
decision, increases network
decision, increases network
availability and customer satisfaction”
availability and customer satisfaction”
NM-NAM
Cisco Complementary Solutions – Performance Visibility Manager (PVM)
Cisco Performance Visibility Manager (PVM) is a proactive network- and application-performance
monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting system for maximizing network availability. It increases early
visibility into network and application behavior issues, to identify them before they become critical.
PVM offers:
• Traffic analysis capabilities to give visibility into the network and business applications, allowing
network managers to understand how application traffic effects network performance and preventing
misuse of critical network resources.
• An application response time (ART) monitoring capability to immediately identify whether or not poor
application performance is being caused by the network or the application.
• An intuitive GUI that presents a high-level operational view to quickly pinpoint trouble spots and
provide a mechanism to easily navigate to the next level of detail for further troubleshooting. The
historical viewing capability allows network managers to discern what is happening in real time with
historical analysis of past events.
• An automatic baseline module to help proactively manage problems by continuously monitoring for
conditions that may represent an emerging problem, facilitating early detection of potential
performance issues.
• Comprehensive reports that assist network managers in capacity planning, trending analysis, and
ongoing status monitoring.
As illustrated above, support for traffic and ART data from multiple sources including Cisco Network Analysis
Module (NAM), network devices, and others.