Cisco Cisco Prime NAM 2304 Appliance Guia De Informação

 

 

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Cisco NAM 2200 Series Appliances 4.1 

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The Cisco NAM 2200 Series Appliances are advanced Cisco instrumentation that provide performance 

management, traffic analysis, and troubleshooting services to help IT managers ensure the consistent and 

efficient delivery of applications to end users. An extension of the Cisco NetworkAnalysis Module (NAM) blades, 

the Cisco NAM 2200 Series Appliances offer next-generation performance, superior scalability, and maximum 

deployment flexibility, delivering comprehensive performance monitoring throughout the Cisco network. 

The design of the Cisco NAM 2200 Series Appliances is founded on the Cisco Common Appliance Model, 
Cisco’s computing-optimized platform, and includes purpose-built hardware to maximize packet processing in 

high-speed networking environments. The results are robust appliances that provide granular traffic analysis, rich 

application performance measurements, exceptional voice quality of experience monitoring, and deep insightful 

packet captures.  

The Cisco NAM 2200 Series Appliances include the Traffic Analyzer GUI, which provides quick access to the 

configuration menus and presents easy-to-read performance reports on web, voice, and video traffic. 

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Cisco offers two Cisco NAM 2200 Series Appliances: the Cisco NAM 2220 Appliance and the Cisco NAM 2204 

Appliance. The Cisco NAM 2220 Appliance includes two 10 Gigabit Ethernet monitoring interfaces and six 146 

GB Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drives with RAID for multiservices monitoring in high-speed, high-

density environments. The Cisco NAM 2220 comes with an option for redundant power. To maximize uptime, 

both the hard disk drives and the power supplies are hot-swappable. The Cisco NAM 2204 includes four 1 

Gigabit Ethernet monitoring interfaces and two 250 GB Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) hard 

disk drives to meet diverse performance analysis needs in scalable multigigabit switching and routing 

environments. The Cisco NAM 2204 is available in two models depending on the interface connection type; the 

NAM2204-RJ45 (copper connection) and the NAM2204-SFP (optical connection).  

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The key features and benefits of the Cisco NAM 2200 Series Appliances are provided in Table 1. 

Key Features and Benefits of the Cisco NAM 2200 Series Appliances 

Delivers application performance monitoring and real-time visibility for voice, video, and data 
applications. Cisco NAM helps improve the operational efficiency of IT organizations by proactively 
detecting performance degradations and their sources to minimize or even eliminate impact on end 
users. 

Analyzes TCP-based application packets as they travel from the client through the network to the data 
center and out again, providing insight into network round-trip time, server response time, data transfer 
time, transaction time, and so on, to improve application performance.  

Measures application response time, WAN bandwidth usage, LAN/WAN data throughput, and so on to 
effectively use WAAS for improving application performance. 

Analyzes voice and video packet streams and provides visibility into key network performance 
indicators to maximize the quality of the end-user experience.  

Automatically identifies hundreds of protocols and provides real-time and historical performance reports 
on hosts, conversations, and applications using critical network resources. 

LAN and WAN monitoring in one solution  Provides visibility into traffic from local and remote switches and routers for comprehensive traffic 

monitoring.