Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 White Paper
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Data Collection from NAM
In order for Cisco Prime Infrastructure to manage Network Analysis Module, it needs to have a minimum software
version of 5.1.1 plus the latest patches available.
We can then make sure that Cisco Prime Infrastructure is enabled to poll the NAM data. You can navigate to
Administration > Data Sources (Under System Setting SubMenu). The top portion of the same page shows all
the devices that are actively sending NetFlow data to Cisco Prime Infrastructure. The bottom pane of the page
shows all the NAMs that have been discovered or added to the inventory.
Select the NAM that should be polled by Cisco Prime Infrastructure, and click Enable as shown in the figure below.
Turning on Advanced Monitoring
Cisco Prime Infrastructure consumes a lot of information from various different sources. Some of the sources for
data include NAM, NetFlow, NBAR, medianet, PerfMon, and Performance Agent. Detailed description of these
advance monitoring can also be referenced from
depicts the sources of the data for the site dashlets as used by Cisco Prime Assurance:
Dashlet Category
Dashlet Name
NAM
Medianet
NetFlow
PA
NBAR2
Site
Application Usage Summary
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Top N Application Groups
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Top N Applications
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Top N Applications with Most Alarms
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Top N Clients (In and Out)
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Top N VLANs
Y
Y
Y
Worst N RTP Streams by Packet Loss
Y
Y
Worst N Clients by Transaction Time
Y
Y