Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 White Paper
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EMA Perspective
Monitoring and documenting the evolution of network management tools over the past several years, EMA has
seen increasing demand for solutions that bring together multiple management functions, such as configuration,
visibility, and control. Furthermore, as operations teams begin to merge across compute, storage, and network,
there is a growing need for management tools to bring together management for more than one technology
“domain” so that relationships and interdependencies can be recognized and considered during planning,
monitoring, and troubleshooting workflows. These types of higher level, integrated management capabilities are
necessary to move from reactive, break-fix operations to a more proactive stance from which network and data
center teams can help to assure high functioning, highly available, and high performing IT infrastructure that
is aligned with application and business needs.
By continuously extending and advancing the management tools that network
By continuously extending and advancing the management tools that network
engineers and operators need to get the full value of their infrastructure
investments, Cisco has demonstrated a sincere focus on going beyond delivering
superior infrastructure equipment solutions. The Prime Infrastructure 2.2
release is an excellent example as it brings together visibility and control features
across LAN, WAN, and data center, while also converging management of both
wired and wireless access networks. In particular, the distributed architecture
and Operations Center front end, the IWAN support features, and the new
topology views will greatly improve the effectiveness of the solution in terms
of supporting the everyday requisite tasks of the networking pro. And the
additional support for UCS brings PI2.2 into the realm of integrated, cross-domain solutions. Collectively,
the PI2.2 release brings integrated visibility and management of user and application performance, leveraging
simplicity of design and automation to reduce operational costs. In this way, it represents a powerful step
forward for existing Cisco Prime Infrastructure installations and a healthy set of valuable capabilities for those
considering the solution for the first time.
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The Prime Infrastructure
2.2 release brings together
visibility and control features
across LAN, WAN, and data
center, while also converging
management of both wired and
wireless access networks.