Cisco Cisco Prime Assurance Manager 1.1 Release Notes

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Cisco Prime Assurance Manager 1.1 Release 
Notes
First Published February 10, 2012, OL-26375-01
These release notes contain the following sections:
Introduction
Cisco Prime Assurance Manager (or Cisco Prime AM) is a web-based user application for 
application-aware network service assurance and performance management. It comprises two types of 
components:
Data collectors—Collect performance and performance-oriented fault data from devices in the 
network using protocols and mechanisms such as Cisco NAM, NetFlow, SNMP polling, traps, 
syslogs, etc. Collected data is aggregated and thresholds are compared against it. 
Cisco Prime Assurance Manager server—With the collected data, Prime AM provides the 
following functionality to end users:
Centralized performance monitoring—Prime AM provides dashboards and reports to view 
performance data at varying levels of granularity and aggregation, both spatial and 
time-based.
Service Assurance—Prime AM identifies running applications and network services 
automatically, correlating these services with performance and fault data.