Cisco Cisco Prime Assurance Manager 1.1 Information Guide
Q&A
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Cisco Prime Assurance Manager
Q. What is Cisco Prime
™
for Enterprise?
A. Cisco Prime for Enterprise is an innovative strategy and portfolio of management products that empower
IT departments to more effectively manage their networks and the services they deliver. Cisco Prime is
built on a network services management foundation and a set of common attributes. It delivers an intuitive
workflow-oriented user experience across Cisco architectures, technologies, and networks. Cisco Prime
simplifies network management, improves operations efficiency, reduces errors, and makes the delivery of
network services more predictable.
Q. Is Cisco Prime a product?
A. Cisco Prime is a portfolio of integrated management products that are each licensed separately. The portfolio
includes three solution families and their associated products:
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Cisco Prime Infrastructure includes Cisco Prime Network Control System (NCS) and Cisco Prime LAN
Management Solution (LMS)
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Cisco Prime Assurance includes Cisco Prime Assurance Manager (AM) and Cisco Prime Network Analysis
Module (NAM)
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Cisco Prime Collaboration includes Cisco Prime Collaboration Manager (CM) and Cisco Prime Unified
Communications Management Suite
Q. Where can I get more information about Cisco Prime products?
A. For more information about Cisco Prime products please visit
http://www.cisco.com/go/prime
.
Q. What is Cisco Prime Assurance Manager?
A. Cisco Prime AM is a web-based application for network service assurance and performance management.
Cisco Prime AM uses network sources like NetFlow and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
polling, traps, and syslogs, and uses Cisco NAM to aggregate and provide the following functionality to end
users:
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Centralized performance monitoring: Cisco Prime AM provides dashboards and reports to view
performance data at varying levels of granularity and aggregation, both spatial and time based.
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Service assurance: Cisco Prime AM identifies running applications and network services automatically,
correlating these services with its performance and fault data.
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Troubleshooting: Performance events can trigger packet capture and decoding that can be used to
troubleshoot network performance problems and faults.
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Traffic Analysis: Data collection from different sources can be used to analyze traffic for the purposes of
capacity planning and optimization.
Q. How is Cisco Prime AM licensed?
A. Cisco Prime AM is licensed based on the number of interfaces. Interface count licenses are sold in bundles of
50, 100, 500, 1000, and 5000 as either a base license or add-on licenses. Purchase of a single base interface
count is mandatory to use AM. To increase the license counts, customers can order add-on interface
licenses.