Cisco Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Network Analysis Module (NAM-3) 정보 가이드
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In addition to monitoring and alerts, Prime LMS offers powerful management tools that streamline day-to-day
operations. Configuration management tools help KLM archive configurations and keep track of updates, while
compliance reports alert the IT team to discrepancies with selected configuration policies, helping optimize
configurations and more easily fix any problems caused by new configurations. With less time devoted to tactical
network management, the IT staff can focus on helping ensure excellent network performance for existing and
new advanced services.
KLM also runs a major implementation of NAM, with 29 NAMs integrated in each Cisco Catalyst 6500 switch and
two Cisco Prime NAM 2200 Series Appliances analyzing traffic flowing through a new deployment of Cisco Nexus
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7000 Series switches. “We’ve seen a large return on our investment in Cisco Prime NAM by reducing system
downtime and greatly streamlining IT administration,” says Ron van Vliet, IT specialist at KLM. “We have more
than 5000 connections to servers, and we rely upon Prime NAM to find the source of any problem.”
In addition to the IT team running the data center, the security, operations, and wide area network teams also
access the Cisco Prime NAMs to analyze traffic, from finding the root cause of network issues to identifying virus-
infected or bot PCs. “We can even use Prime NAM to track down individual users,” says van Vliet. “We were
phasing out the old internal DNS interface, so I would check the IP addresses of users still accessing the old
interface and remind them about the change. This helps reduce the number of technical support requests later on
when we eliminate the old interface completely.”
For KLM, a critical benefit of Prime NAM is the ability to monitor traffic remotely on a local desktop for anywhere,
anytime access, helping enable the IT and other network teams to perform detailed root cause analysis quickly
without physically travelling to the sites. This capability not only saves KLM in terms of manpower and time
required for travel, but it also allows teams to act quickly to catch and fix problems early on.
The use of Prime NAM also significantly improves visibility into overall network operations by making it possible for
the IT team to produce reports that highlight short- and long-term network trends. For instance, detailed Prime
NAM reporting provides information about application usage and response times on both the client- and server-
sides, helping the team gain insights, such as when busy hours occur, and to establish and improve policies to
help ensure that business-critical applications are always readily accessible to users.
Business Results
Cisco Prime LMS and Prime NAM allow the IT staff at KLM to efficiently keep the company’s high-demand, high-
performance network up and running. One of the keys to achieving the 99.99 percent network availability SLA is
the device-monitoring capabilities of Prime LMS. “Alerts from Cisco Prime LMS help us find and solve problems
before they affect the entire network,” says Veldhuizen. “This greatly reduces network downtime and helps us
achieve 99.99 percent network availability.”
“We’ve seen a large return on our investment in Cisco Prime NAM by
reducing system downtime and greatly streamlining IT administration.
We have more than 5000 connections to servers, and we rely upon
Prime NAM to find the source of any problem.”
reducing system downtime and greatly streamlining IT administration.
We have more than 5000 connections to servers, and we rely upon
Prime NAM to find the source of any problem.”
— Ron van Vliet, IT Specialist, KLM