Cisco Cisco Application Performance Assurance Network Module Scheda Tecnica

Data Sheet

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Cisco AON Management Console (AMC): Web application with full role-based access

control for centralized management of the Cisco AON system. Cisco AMC helps ensure

consistent and up-to-date configurations across all the Cisco AON devices (nodes) in a

distributed infrastructure. Cisco AMC functions include:

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Configuring and managing Cisco AON nodes

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Defining and provisioning application policies

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Managing keys and certificates

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Monitoring Cisco AON node events and logs

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Directly interfacing with the Cisco AON blade in a switch or router

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Cisco AON Development Studio (ADS): Windows-based tool for use in configuring how

application messages are processed at run time. Its features include:

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Easy drag-and-drop GUI

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Set of preconfigured functions, or bladelets, that can be used to create policy execution

plans (PEPs)

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One-button synchronization of policy execution plans with the Cisco AON Management

Console

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Separate additional kits for creating custom bladelets and custom adapters. Refer to

http://www.cisco.com/go/aon

for further information

The Cisco AON Development Studio is included as part of the basic hardware/software package

for Cisco AON. It may be used to customize the Cisco AON Secure File Transfer Extension

Module to provide additional functionality or develop additional functionality on AON, but it is not

necessary for the successful deployment and configuration of the Cisco AON Secure File Transfer

Extension.

Benefits

Today, application developers need to write code or implement complex application infrastructure

software to facilitate common interapplication communication tasks such as connectivity, security,

and data exchange. These same functions are often recoded individually for each application or

redeployed in different application infrastructure software, resulting in increased development,

deployment time, and cost.

Each application must perform CPU-intensive functions such as encryption, decryption, and XML

processing locally rather than centrally in a shared infrastructure, and an ever-increasing number

of servers is required to keep up with the processing demand. Management, maintenance, and

centralization of policies and enforcement become extremely challenging, especially as

enterprises deploy distributed applications utilizing service-oriented architectures (SOA).

A significant amount of this cost and complexity can be avoided with the installation of a few Cisco

AON devices in the data center. Cisco AON utilizes a policy-driven approach to help enable

enterprises to centrally configure and manage application infrastructure functions. As changes to

policies occur and new requirements for security methods, logging and auditing, or encryption

methods are required, these changes are managed centrally eliminating the need for recurrent or

complex code changes to middleware components.