The Cisco NAM Traffic Analyzer, Release 5.0 introduces a redesigned interface and user experience,
with more intuitive workflows and interactive reporting capabilities. The dashboard-style layouts show
multiple charts in one window, thereby giving you the ability to view a lot of information at once.

There are two types of dashboards in NAM 5.0: One type is the “summary” view found under the
Monitor menu, and the other type is the “over time” view found under the Analyze menu. The Monitor
dashboards allow you to view network traffic, application performance, site performance, and alarms at
a glance. From there, you can isolate one area, for example an application with response time issues, and
then drill-down to the Analyze dashboard for further investigation.

Figure 1

shows an example of one of the Monitoring dashboards in the NAM 5.0 release.