Cisco Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance 11.5 White Paper

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Standard and Advanced Features 
Standard 
Advanced 
Breadth of support for UC and Cisco TelePresence endpoints and applications: Support for all key 
services in Cisco collaboration networks, including Cisco Unified Communications, Unified Contact Center 
Enterprise, Unified Contact Center Express, and video infrastructure components, as well as third-party 
devices. Refer to the compatibility Information at 
No 
Yes 
Collaboration network infrastructure support: Helps enable monitoring of underlying network devices 
that can affect collaboration services, such as Cisco Unified Border Elements, Cisco Integrated Services 
Routers (ISRs), voice gateways, gatekeepers, routers, and switches. Refer to the supported devices list at 
No 
Yes 
Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance Standard 
The Standard offer provides essential fault and performance monitoring for core Cisco Unified Communications 
and Cisco TelePresence components. 
The solution is web enabled, providing remote accessibility and avoiding the need to download client software and 
maintain various versions. 
Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance Standard supports Cisco Unified Communications Manager Versions 9 
through 11, Cisco Unity
®
 Connection Versions 9 through 11, and core Cisco TelePresence components such as 
Cisco TelePresence Server, VCS, MCU, and Conductor. 
Cisco Prime Collaboration Standard supports a single Cisco Unified Communications Manager/VCS cluster. 
Scale is determined by the OVA selected for download. Refer to the Quick Start Guide, System Capacity section, 
for details on each endpoint type. 
Key Features of Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance Standard 
This section elaborates on the Standard Assurance features summarized in Table 2. 
Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance Standard offers the following key features: 
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“At-a-glance” predefined and customizable performance dashboards: More than 17 predefined 
dashboards provide relevant performance metrics and insight into corresponding short-term trends. Users 
can also select metrics to create custom dashboards to meet their unique business needs. Figure 1 shows 
a sample predefined performance dashboard. 
Figure 1.    Sample Predefined Performance Dashboard