Extends Probe technology packet-flow monitoring and analysis the network edge and branch office

The nGenius Integrated Agent is self-contained virtualized probe software integrated and deployed within a third-party network device. Optimized for deployment in the branch office and at the network edge, nGenius Integrated Agent greatly reduces the costs associated with extending real-time user monitoring and service visibility to remote locations by leveraging a third-party network platform as a monitoring point. The total cost of ownership is lowered by reducing the IT footprint, remote management capabilities and decreasing power consumption. The nGenius Integrated Agent is an Intelligent Data Source that  feeds valuable performance metrics into the nGenius Service Assurance Solution for comprehensive analysis of WAN traffic to the branch from the data center, cloud service providers, other branches, as well as local LAN traffic.

Deployed as part of a pervasive visibility strategy, the nGenius Integrated Agent creates a unified and scalable end-to-end view of all traffic traversing the network. The nGenius Integrated Agent, when used as part of the nGenius Service Assurance Solution provides IT organizations with a highly scalable, flexible and cost effective service delivery management approach that identifies and resolves issues before users are impacted.

The nGenius Integrated Agent for Cisco UCS Express and Cisco ISR
The nGenius Integrated Agent for Cisco® Unified Computing System™ Express (UCS Express) and Cisco® ISR cost-effectively integrates industry-leading nGenius Virtualized Probe technology into Cisco Integrated Services Routers (G1 & G2) to extend real-time user monitoring and service visibility to the branch environment. The nGenius Integrated Agent for Cisco provides the following capabilities:

• Cost-effective monitoring of application and network traffic to and from the WAN
• Local troubleshooting for the branch LAN without the need to dispatch a technician
• Branch-to-branch monitoring for detailed visibility into decentralized networks and cloud computing
• Accurate response time analysis and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) from the branch user perspective
• Validation of WAN optimized traffic
• End-to-end views and reports from the data center, through the core, out to the branch

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Enabling Visibility into Virtual Environments and Private Clouds for the nGenius Service Assurance Solution

Optimized for the virtual environment, the award winning nGenius Virtual Agent is a plug-and-play virtual appliance containing an operating system and virtualized nGenius Agent software. Deployed within a dedicated virtual machine, the Virtual Agent is a virtualized implementation of the widely deployed nGenius Probe technology which is self-contained and consumes modest platform resources and requires little administrative actions.

Once deployed, the nGenius Virtual Agent software provides real-time visibility into the virtual computing environment by monitoring all application traversing the Hypervisor. This includes all interactions between virtualized applications contained in a single server, traffic in and out of the physical virtual server, and traffic associated with another virtual server platform. The nGenius Virtual Agent supports the native VMware® vSphere® standard switch and vSphere distributed switch (vDS) for extended environments. In addition, nGenius Virtual Agent supports the Cisco® 1000V series switch providing a high degree of seamless deployment flexibility. Server administrators can control access to traffic visibility through virtual LAN (vLAN) mapping to ensure data privacy and security. The nGenius Agent software discovers all applications and their interdependencies within, and external to, the virtual server.

Capabilities include:

• Extends nGenius probe technology to virtualized server environments to deliver real-time visibility of virtualized application traffic
• Provides scalable, granular and cost-effective visibility into virtualized applications and services to reveal multi-tier application performance and interactions
• Supports on-demand and triggered packet captures enabling IT managers to collect and analyze live packets from within the virtual environment
• Enables unified views of applications and services across virtual and physical infrastructure
• Identifies application movement to recognize application additions, relocations, and removals from the network perspective
• Uses Virtual TAP mode to forward packet flow traffic from within a virtual machine to an external InfiniStream® appliance for intelligent deep packet capture and analysis
• Supports VMware® virtual server environments