Table of Contents

Product Overview
Key Features and Benefits

Campus Manager
Content Flow Monitor
TrafficDirector
Resource Manager Essentials
CiscoView

Specifications
Ordering Information

CiscoWorks2000: LAN Management Solution (NT, Solaris)

Product Overview

The CiscoWorks2000 LAN Management Solution (LMS) is a solution set within the CiscoWorks2000 enterprise management product family. The CiscoWorks2000 LAN Management Solution features a comprehensive set of Web-based management tools for configuring, administering, monitoring, and troubleshooting the campus network.

The LAN Management Solution consists of operationally focused tools useful in managing the day-to-day operations of critical services and links found in an enterprise campus network. These tools include scalable topology views, sophisticated configuration, Layer 2 / Layer 3 path analysis, traffic monitoring, end-station tracking, and device troubleshooting capabilities.

The following applications are included in the LAN Management Solution offering:

• Campus Manager (CM)

• Content Flow Monitor (CFM)

• TrafficDirector (TD)

• Resource Manager Essentials (RME)

• CiscoView (CD-One)

Key Features and Benefits

Campus Manager

Campus Manager is a suite of Web-based applications designed for managing today`s Cisco-powered switched networks.

• Intelligent discovery and display of Layer 2 networks on browser-accessible topology maps

• Configuration of virtual LAN (VLAN)/LAN Emulation (LANE) and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) services with assignment of switch ports to those services

• Link and device status display based on Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) polling

• Identification of Layer 2 configuration discrepancies

• A path trace tool for diagnosing connectivity problems between end stations, and Layer 2 and Layer 3 devices

• Automatic location and correlation of information on users by media access control (MAC), IP address, NT or NetWare Directory Services (NDS) login or UNIX host name, with their physical connections to the switched network

Content Flow Monitor

Content Flow Monitor is a Web-based performance monitoring application for managing Cisco server load balancing devices. It is an essential visualization tool for understanding, navigating and trouble-shooting content flows.

• Provides network managers immediate insight to the performance of Cisco server load balancing elements, such as LocalDirector

• Significantly reduces network management complexity by providing proactive performance-monitoring capabilities to Cisco server load balancing

• Presents a color coded view of up-to-date device health status, service availability, detailed device configuration, and statistics

• Provides performance statistics, such as total number of flows and cache entries per forwarding agent, total number of connections and packets per virtual server, and failover unit type and status per LocalDirector

TrafficDirector

TrafficDirector is a comprehensive, RMON-based network traffic monitoring and troubleshooting application that provides LAN managers with early visibility into switched network issues and problems before they become critical and potentially cause service degradation.

• Used within the LAN in conjunction with Cisco SwitchProbe devices, TD software provides all the necessary tools to monitor link performance and utilization

• Troubleshoot and isolate problems in the network, as well as provide real-time and historical statistics, graphs, and reports for network capacity planning

• Can use data collected by the wide range of Cisco SwitchProbe devices, which are offered separately

Resource Manager Essentials

Resource Mangager Essntials is a powerful suite of Web-based network management applications for small to large-scale enterprise networks.

• Provides network inventory and device change management

• Device configuration and software image management tools

• Network availability and syslog analysis

• Powerful integration links to Cisco Connection Online (CCO) along with Cisco`s partners and third parties

CiscoView

CiscoView, the most widely used Cisco graphical device management application is now Web-based.

• Anytime anywhere access to detailed device information

• Graphical views of devices with color-coded indications of status

• Browser access to configuration and monitoring tool

Specifications

The following table contains general system requirements for the CiscoWorks2000 management server and its client components. System requirements may increase depending on how individual LAN applications are installed. For more detailed system requirements and recommendations for tuning the management system for performance, refer to individual application installation guides and release notes.

Ordering Information

Posted: Wed Sep 27 05:13:30 PDT 2000
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