Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure 1.4 White Paper

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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 

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.