Cisco Cisco Prime Assurance Manager 1.1 White Paper
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Closing The Loop for Effective Network Operations Management:
Cisco Prime Assurance Manager
Cisco now offers a suite of Prime management solutions for Service Providers and another for
Enterprises. The Cisco Prime for Enterprise portfolio currently spans the following products/areas:
Enterprises. The Cisco Prime for Enterprise portfolio currently spans the following products/areas:
Cisco Prime Infrastructure: Lifecycle management of converged wired and wireless networks.
• Cisco Prime Network Control System (NCS): Provides converged user and access management,
complete wireless lifecycle management, and integrated configuration of branch office routers.
• Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution (LMS): Delivers simplified deployment and administrative
management of Cisco Borderless Networks.
Cisco Prime Assurance: Visibility across architectures for collection, analysis, and troubleshooting of
performance, application, and end user wired and wireless sessions.
performance, application, and end user wired and wireless sessions.
• Cisco Prime Assurance Manager: Aggregates real-time information across multiple networks to
deliver application-aware network performance visibility and troubleshooting.
• Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module (NAM): Provides packet and NetFlow-based network and
application performance visibility, analysis, and troubleshooting.
Cisco Prime Collaboration: Integrated lifecycle management to support converged voice, video, and
collaboration experience.
collaboration experience.
• Cisco Prime Collaboration Manager (CM): Monitors and provides troubleshooting for telepresence
sessions and media paths in real time.
• Cisco Prime Unified Communications Manager Suite: Automates provisioning, proactively
diagnoses problems, and provides advanced statistics analysis and consolidated reporting and
views for the Cisco Unified Communications environment.
views for the Cisco Unified Communications environment.
In early 2012, Cisco added Prime Assurance Manager to the Prime Assurance portion of the solution
suite. Cisco Systems network management solutions have long-standing, well-established roots focused
on configuration and design of networks, complemented by troubleshooting and optimization. Cisco
Prime Assurance Manager complements those capabilities with a set of tightly integrated features
designed to provide essential operations monitoring support across distributed Cisco-based networking
infrastructures.
suite. Cisco Systems network management solutions have long-standing, well-established roots focused
on configuration and design of networks, complemented by troubleshooting and optimization. Cisco
Prime Assurance Manager complements those capabilities with a set of tightly integrated features
designed to provide essential operations monitoring support across distributed Cisco-based networking
infrastructures.
Cisco Prime Assurance Manager: Scope and Capabilities
Cisco has developed and introduced Prime Assurance Manager with one essential goal in mind –
to provide end-to-end operational monitoring visibility, spanning data center to and through the
branch, as a means for facilitating efficient operations and proactively protecting network-delivered
applications and services. This includes the collection and analysis of
network availability, network performance, application performance, and
end user experience data across both wired and wireless environments,
coupled with troubleshooting and reporting features.
to provide end-to-end operational monitoring visibility, spanning data center to and through the
branch, as a means for facilitating efficient operations and proactively protecting network-delivered
applications and services. This includes the collection and analysis of
network availability, network performance, application performance, and
end user experience data across both wired and wireless environments,
coupled with troubleshooting and reporting features.
To become a part of the Cisco Prime portfolio, each product must follow
a set of architectural guidelines. The solution must be complementary
to other elements within the Cisco Prime Network Management
portfolio and integrate seamlessly with features of other products,
so that operators can use a single navigational interface for either the
monitoring/troubleshooting capabilities or the configuration/control
a set of architectural guidelines. The solution must be complementary
to other elements within the Cisco Prime Network Management
portfolio and integrate seamlessly with features of other products,
so that operators can use a single navigational interface for either the
monitoring/troubleshooting capabilities or the configuration/control
Cisco developed and
introduced Prime Assurance
Manager to provide
end-to-end operational
monitoring visibility,
spanning data center to
and through the branch.