Cisco Cisco Unified Operations Manager 8.0 Data Sheet
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Anticipates Problems Using Scheduled Tests on the Network
Cisco Unified Operations Manager comes with a powerful set of diagnostic tests that can be executed on demand
or through calendar control for proactive network health monitoring and trouble isolation. The diagnostics can be
used to validate that the phone’s features are set up as expected, including call, call hold, call park, call transfer,
message light activation, and conference calling. Operational tests simulate user activities such as getting a dial
tone, making phone calls, leaving voicemail, and creating or joining conference calls; the tests also log any issues
encountered. Dial-plan tests provide an easy mechanism to validate all the dial plans. Node-to-node testing uses
the Cisco IOS
®
Software IP service-level agreement (SLA) feature in Cisco routers and switches to simulate traffic
through the network. After the test, network characteristics such as status, response time, latency, jitter, packet
loss, and network quality are recorded in a results report.
Table 1 lists features and benefits of Cisco Unified Operations Manager.
Table 1.
Features and Benefits of Cisco Unified Operations Manager
Feature
Benefits
Automated discovery
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Automated discovery of Cisco Unified Communications Manager cluster elements and associated Cisco Unified
Communications applications and phones, switches, routers, and voice gateways
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Link to Cisco Prime
™
LAN Management Solution (LMS) credential repository to reduce duplicate credential entry for
LMS-supported infrastructure components
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Automatic grouping and population of cluster service-level view
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Static Network Address Translation (NAT) support through manual import or addition
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Support for Cisco Unified Presence, Cisco Voice Portal, and Contact Center Enterprise on Cisco Unified
Computing System (Cisco UCS
™
)
Diagnostic View
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Single view to visualize and monitor Unified Communications component status, performance, and test results by
logical and physical groupings
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See the status of the key components in a grouping together on a single screen to make diagnosis of problems
much quicker than the previous individual-feature navigation approach
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Single view to monitor the component status and performance of a voice messaging server
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Check the phone outage reason so deep sleep is not considered unregistered
Fault Monitor
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Quick at-a-glance, real-time status of all the faults in the Unified Communications network
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View fault summaries by selected group with events for the selected line simultaneously displayed in an adjacent
window to minimize the number of clicks to see actual event detail
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View events by selected grouping, bypassing the event summary for even faster access to event details
Performance monitoring
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Visibility into critical performance metrics of each element, such as resource usage (CPU, memory, media digital
signal processor [DSP] resources), active calls, trunk statistics (trunk usage, port usage, gateway statistics), and so
on
on
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Enhanced ease-of-use graphic chart views for side-by-side comparison of selected metrics
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Options to export the chart content in comma-separated value (CSV) format for use in further data analysis or to
print it as an image
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Key performance results displayed on Diagnostic View with instant zoom
Diagnostics tests
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Synthetic tests (call processor to phone) and phone-to-phone tests, helping to ensure end-to-end service
connectivity
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Phone batch and status tests to help ensure that phone features operate as provisioned
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IP SLA node-to-node testing
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Multiple test results displayed on Diagnostic View
Northbound interfaces
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Email, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps, and syslog formats for external notification from the
UOM MIB, and not just network components, forward actionable alerts created by UOM
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Event-filtering user interface to select specific types of fault notifications for a set of devices to be sent to specific
users
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Hyperlink embedded in the notification email providing direct launch of the event display to quickly determine what
sent the event and what is going on with other involved Unified Communications components
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SNMP MIB for UOM server status
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Web Services API for phone inventory