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Enterprisewide Operational Consistency
Deployed as part of a pervasive instrumentation strategy, the nGenius Integrated Agent is just one of many
intelligent data sources offered by NetScout Systems that are designed to meet a broad range of monitoring needs:
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Monitors site-to-site or cloud-based services: Branch office-to-branch office and cloud services typically
bypass the data center or central office, where monitoring has traditionally been located. Located on the
branch-office egress router, the nGenius Integrated Agent offers a cost-effective and superior solution for
monitoring and troubleshooting services emanating from the branch office.
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Enables true end-to-end visibility: The nGenius Integrated Agent can be deployed transparently into existing
nGenius Performance Manager environments to extend visibility to branch-office environments to provide a
unified view of enterprisewide network and application performance. nGenius Performance Manager works
with a variety of NetScout intelligent data sources to provide end-to-end visibility of physical and virtualized
networks from the data center, through the core, within virtualized computing environments, and to remote
sites. These data sources include nGenius InfiniStream
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appliances with continuous intelligent packet
capture within core, access, and data center environments; nGenius Virtual Agent for monitoring VMware
virtualized computing systems; and nGenius Collector for capturing NetFlow, sFlow, and jFlow statics in
secondary links.
Remote Administration
The nGenius Integrated Agent simplifies management of branch-office networks and reduces the cost of IT
operations:
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Reduces management complexity: The nGenius Integrated Agent can be deployed remotely on preinstalled
Cisco SRE modules and configured and managed remotely from the nGenius Performance Manager console,
saving time and effort on ongoing maintenance and management.
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Optimizes IT staff productivity: The data collected by the nGenius Integrated Agent and analyzed and
displayed in nGenius Performance Manager can be accessed by the network, application, and security
managers, improving IT staff collaboration.
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Simple, single-package installation: Cisco Application Extension Platform (AXP) software and nGenius
Integrate Agent software are bundled for ease of download and deployment.
Conclusions
As enterprises recognize their increasing dependence on branch offices to meet business goals, IT organizations
need to evolve the way they manage service delivery to the branch office. In order to maintain a high-quality and
consistent level of service delivery, these IT organizations are turning to the nGenius Integrated Agent. By
continuously monitoring WAN and LAN traffic at the branch office, IT organizations gain a true understanding of the
service-delivery environment. It is this unified service-management approach that allows today’s most agile IT
organizations to:
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Optimize the service-delivery environment at the branch office and enterprisewide to reduce downtime.
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Protect network and application performance and assure the quality of user experience to maintain optimal
productivity.
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Simplify operations by improving efficiency and collaboration.
For More Information
For more information, please visit
http://www.netscout.com
or contact NetScout sales at 800 309-4804 or
978 614-4000.