Cisco Cisco Prime Virtual Network Analysis Module (vNAM) 6.3 White Paper

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Network Visibility in the Data Center:

Best Practices for Staying Ahead

Figure 3: Monitoring Application Workloads with vNAM; Isolating the server

as the cause of application performance degradation

The result is a flexible network monitoring solution that can help operators understand and analyze

performance across a wide range of important use cases, including mixed physical/virtual and hybrid

infrastructures, multi-tier applications, mixed wired/wireless networks, critical data center interconnect

links, and more.

Staying Ahead via Collaboration

The Cisco NAM’s ability to support cross-team communications and collaboration has been substantially

enhanced via a number of new scheduled report features. First, the existing web-based console views

can be shared directly with others, by simply forwarding the URL of the view of interest to authorized

recipients – no independent NAM licenses or logins are required. Also, reports can now be generated to

directly reflect the interactive console views that an operator has set up to investigate a particular incident

or problem. Results can be exported to CSV or PDF, and distributed automatically via email. Further,

reports can be run across multiple NAM instances, either for specific days or on a custom interval basis.