Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Data Sheet

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Schedule the rollout and implementation of network changes

This includes new configuration or monitoring templates, software image updates, and support for user-

initiated ad hoc changes and compliance updates. These highly scalable capabilities help accelerate

service rollout and minimize chances for errors. In addition, Cisco Prime Infrastructure provides a simple set

of guided and advance flows to bulk provision new devices (including the converged access switches on the

network) or push an initial configuration to a device to bring it up within a few minutes, thereby drastically

reducing IT operational expenses.

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Monitor the overall health of the network using predefined dashboards that provide up-to-date status

Cisco Prime Infrastructure delivers simple one-click workflows and 360-degree views to enhance

troubleshooting and reduce the time to resolve network issues. A unified alarm display provides actionable

information as well as links to automatically open service requests with the Cisco Technical Assistance

Center (TAC).

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Access a wide variety of predefined reports for up-to-date network information

These reports include detailed inventory, compliance, audit, capacity, end of sale, security vulnerabilities,

and many more.

Improve Application Delivery and the End-User Experience

By converging lifecycle management and assurance, Cisco Prime Infrastructure delivers a 360-degree experience

that promotes more effective management of the network as well as the services the network delivers. Operational

monitoring workflows provide a holistic, multidimensional view of the user, client, application, and network. This

helps network managers improve their responsiveness to business needs, identify and remediate problems more

quickly, and lower incident and problem rates for an improved end-user experience.

Cisco Prime Infrastructure both configures and uses as a source of rich performance data embedded Cisco

instrumentation and industry-standard technologies to deliver networkwide, application-aware visibility. These

technologies include Application Visibility and Control (AVC), NetFlow, Flexible NetFlow, Network Based

Application Recognition (NBAR2), Medianet, Performance Agent, and Simple Network Management Protocol

(SNMP). Operations monitoring and quality of experience workflows reduce instrumentation configuration and data

collection complexity to provide real-time insight into network and application performance. Cisco Prime

Infrastructure also integrates with Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module (NAM) to permit the collection and

correlation of granular flow- and packet-based data from one NAM or many, helping to enable deeper analysis and

troubleshooting to rapidly solve challenging application and network problems.

Help Ensure Regulatory and Risk Compliance

Cisco Prime Infrastructure provides continuous compliance and auditing capabilities to help IT organizations

monitor and assess their network and device configuration for out-of-policy configuration and for security and risk

vulnerabilities. These include:

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Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) auditing of the wireless network

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Network inventory auditing and reporting against Cisco advisories such as end of life and end of support for

devices, OS versions, and modules

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Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) notifications