Specifications

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Cisco IOS® Software and Network Management at a Glance
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IOS
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Software and Network Management
Cisco IOS
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Software and Network Management at a Glance
Product Features Page
Cisco IOS Software
Feature-rich network operating system supported on wide range of Cisco products
• Provides a common IP fabric, functionality, and command-line interface (CLI) across network
infrastructures
• Enables a vast array of key routing, multiservice, traffic shaping, security/firewall, and traffic
monitoring applications, and a broad variety of network connections
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CiscoWorks Small
Network Management
Solution
Web-based network management solution designed for small to medium businesses (SMB)
• Device auto-discovery using SNMP simplifies setup and reduces startup time
• Standards-based, multi-vendor management
• Event management and topology mapping application
• Includes Cisco’s popular CiscoView Element Management Tool
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CiscoWorks LAN
Management Solution
Provides key applications needed to manage Cisco switch-based Enterprise campus networks.
This bundle includes:
• Campus Manager
• Device Fault Manager
• Resource Manager Essentials
• CiscoView
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CiscoWorks
VPN/Security
Management Solution
Combines general device management tools for configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting
enterprise networks with powerful security solutions for managing virtual private networks (VPNs),
firewalls, and network and host-based intrusion detection systems (IDS). CiscoWorks VMS is
organized into several functional areas:
• Firewall Management
• IDS Management, network and host-based
• Host Intrusion Prevention System Management
• VPN Router Management
• Security Monitoring
• VPN Monitoring
• Operational Management
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CiscoWorks Security
Information
Management Solution
and CiscoWorks
Security Information
Management Solution
Engine
A solution that collects, analyzes, and correlates security event data from across the enterprise-
letting you detect and respond to security events as they occur. The hardware-based solution engine
option provides the same features and functions as the CiscoWorks SIMS software on a dedicated
appliance. The Solution Engine requires minimal setup and installation.
• Event monitoring of multivendor security environments
• Extensive reporting for operators and high-level administrators
• Risk assessment information to understand overall vulnerability of critical network assets within
the enterprise
• Forensics tools to investigate attacks
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CiscoWorks Network
Connectivity Center
• A suite of network and service management software that manages increasingly complex and
distributed networks and IT environments in alignment with business priorities. Leveraging
sophisticated modeling, analysis, and automation technologies, itprovides end-to-end insight into
how the intelligent network health relates to key business services. It automatically pinpoints
service-affecting faults and calculates their business impacts, therefore minimizing service
downtime while lowering operating cost and reducing business risk. The suite includes: Cisco NCC
Network Connectivity Monitor (NCM); NCM Global Console; Cisco NCC Application Services
Manager (ASM); Cisco NCC Application Connectivity Monitor (ACM); Cisco NCC Business Impact
Manager (BIM); Cisco NCC ATM/Frame Relay Availability Manager; Cisco NCC MPLS VPN
Manager; Cisco NCC Routing Protocol Services Manager (RPSM); Cisco NCC Report Manager;
Cisco NCC Adapters; Cisco NCC Business Dashboard
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