Cisco Cisco Multicast Manager 3.1 Data Sheet
Data Sheet
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Features and Benefits
In addition to the features shown in Table 1, Cisco Multicast Manager has support for multicast
VPNs and RFC 4445 video probes. The MVPN feature provides monitoring and alerting of
changes detected in the multicast Virtual Route Forwarding (VRF) tables. The real-time
diagnostics show VRF to multicast distribution tree (MDT) mapping details along with MDT data
ranges and thresholds. Continued support for video probes allows Cisco Multicast Manager to
report video quality issues for specific multicast groups while highlighting the video channels that
those groups support. Integration of these probes with Cisco Multicast Manager enables real-time
alerts for rapid network fault isolation of customer impacting video events. Cisco Multicast Monitor
supports probes from IneoQuest, Bridge Technologies, and Mixed Signals.
Table 1.
Features and Benefits
Feature
Benefit
Automated multicast
discovery
discovery
Discovers complete multicast topology from a single seed device, along with the MVPN
provider and provider edge devices and VRF tables they support. Discovery bridges the
provide edge to the customer edge to create an end-to-end view of the multicast
environment.
provider and provider edge devices and VRF tables they support. Discovery bridges the
provide edge to the customer edge to create an end-to-end view of the multicast
environment.
Proactive polling engine
Highly scalable polling engine to detect multicast anomalies before they become mission
critical problems
critical problems
Alerts and reports
Any exceptions detected by the polling engine are sent as Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP) traps and logged for reporting purposes. Reports are available for
Rendezvous Points (RPs), Source-Group (S,G) pps rates, tree changes, interface
bandwidth, Layer 2 port pps rates. Real-time alerts originating from an IneoQuest iVMS
application are also actionable through the video operations solution (VOS) add-on.
Protocol (SNMP) traps and logged for reporting purposes. Reports are available for
Rendezvous Points (RPs), Source-Group (S,G) pps rates, tree changes, interface
bandwidth, Layer 2 port pps rates. Real-time alerts originating from an IneoQuest iVMS
application are also actionable through the video operations solution (VOS) add-on.
Show all groups
Provides a complete list of active S,Gs
IGMP diagnostics
Displays all devices that have seen an Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) join for
a particular group
a particular group
MSDP status
Shows the status of all Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)–enabled devices and
their peers, including Source-Active cache information
their peers, including Source-Active cache information
Layer 2 diagnostics
Shows which multicast groups are being forwarded on a particular Layer 2 switch port
Health check
Provides on-demand checking of forwarding trees; RPs and checking for the existence of
specific S,Gs can also be scheduled to run automatically
specific S,Gs can also be scheduled to run automatically
6500/7600 troubleshooting
Provides the equivalent of a Cisco IOS
®
Software command-line interface "show tech" for
multicast, along with Local Target Logic (LTL) checking and pps rates taken from the route
processor, switch processor, or distributed forwarding card. Output can be emailed directly
to the Cisco Technical Assistance Center for further analysis.
processor, switch processor, or distributed forwarding card. Output can be emailed directly
to the Cisco Technical Assistance Center for further analysis.
System Requirements
Table 2 lists the system requirements for Cisco Multicast Manager.
Table 2.
System Requirements
Component
Description
Disk space
4 GB or more free space for Cisco Multicast Manager application and data
Hardware
Linux
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Dual AMD Opteron Processor 250 2.4-GHz for large enterprise (more than 500 devices)
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Dual 2.8-GHz Intel Pentium IV or dual 2.8-GHz Intel Xeon processor for large enterprise (more than 500
devices)
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2.8-GHz Intel Pentium IV or 2.8-GHz Intel Xeon processor
Solaris
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Sun Fire v440: Up to four 1.593-GHz UltraSPARC IIIi processors for large enterprise (more than 500
devices)
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Sun Fire v240: One 1.34-GHz or two 1.5-GHz UltraSPARC processors
Memory
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2 GB
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4 GB for large enterprise (more than 500 devices)