Cisco Netsys Performance Service Manager

Product Overview

Cisco Netsys Performance Service Manager builds on the capabilities of the Netsys Connectivity Service Manager allowing you to define, monitor, and optimize performance service levels, use existing network resources most efficiently, diagnose and solve network performance problems, tune existing networks, and plan network changes. Cisco Netsys Performance Service Manager is the only Cisco-certified performance modeling application on the market. By providing accurate modeling of routing and flow transport over Cisco devices, you can analyze interactions between traffic flows, topologies, routing parameters, router configurations, and Cisco IOSTM software features.

Working interactively with the Performance Service Manager, you can ensure that service-level policies are met, performance problems are solved, and WAN costs are reduced through resource optimization. This helps you meet future equipment and protocol migration plans and application performance requirements. The Performance Service Manager gives you a "snapshot" of your current network by collecting actual configuration data and quickly generating multiprotocol topology, performance, and traffic baselines. This enables you to make informed, effective decisions for improving overall performance and optimizing traffic loads.

The Performance Service Manager works in conjunction with the Connectivity Service Manager to quickly generate a graphical, multiprotocol topology baseline from your actual router configurations. Router configuration parameters define how routing protocols interact and are essential to accurately model traffic flows. Cisco Netsys Performance Service Manager captures logical connectivity for all protocols without intrusive, uncontrolled "discovery" mechanisms. User-definable overlays apply color to relevant performance data allowing you to visually navigate through the topology to identify problem areas and find the source of the problem.

Key Features and Benefits

**Table 13-41: Topologies and Protocols Supported by Cisco Netsys Service-Level Management Suite**
Feature	Supported Benefit
Supported LAN Topologies	Ethernet, Fast Ethernet Token Ring Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Interface
Supported WAN Connectivity	Serial, High-Speed Serial Interface (HSSI) Basic Rate Interface (BRI) Frame Relay IP unnumbered Switched Multimegabit Data Interface (SMDS) X.25 Async Dialer Channelized T1
Protocols	IP, IPX Systems Network Architecture (SNA) AppleTalk Virtual Integrated Network Service (VINES) DECnet
Routing Protocols	RIP, IGRP, EIGRP OSPF IPX-RIP SRB, RSRB DLSw+ BGP IS-IS (IP)
Switch Support	Catalyst 5000 and 5500 Catalyst 1300, 1600, 2900, and 3000

Specifications

**Table 13-42: System Requirements for Cisco Netsys Service-Level Management Suite**
Specification	Description
Compatible platforms	Sun SPARCstation 20 IBM Reduced Instruction Set (RISC) System/6000 Model 340 Hewlett Packard 712-60
Hardware requirements	200 MB hard disk space 64 MB RAM, 200 MB swap space CD-ROM drive Mouse Color monitor
Operating system and software requirements	SunOS 4.1.3_U1 4.1.4; Solaris 2.5 2.6; Solaris-J; AIX 4.1.5; HP-UX 10.x OpenWindows or Motif 1.2+X11 Release 4+
HTML browser	Netscape Navigator version 3.0 recommended

Figure 13-1: Real Data, Accurate Routing Calculation, and Precise Router Models Produce Information You Can Plan On

Ordering Information

Product and Part Numbers

For part number information, please see Product and Part Numbers at the end of Cisco Netsys LAN Service Manager section or visit http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/pcat/nelnsv.htm#order

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