nGenius Performance Manager - Key Features
| Application Recognition and Monitoring |
| Recognizes a variety of application types, including: |
- Well-known and children of well-known applications
- User-defined, custom-developed applications
- Complex applications using port-ranging/port-hopping
- Peer-to-peer applications
- Web-based applications and URLs
- VoIP signaling and transmission protocols
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| Packet/Flow Troubleshooting |
- Robust packet capture decode engine (450 protocol family decodes)
- TCP Session/Follow Stream support
- Multi-hop and Multi-tier bounce diagram support
- Pre- and post-capture filtering
- Text, hex, host, application, pattern and custom filtering capabilities
- Save, share, import and export capture files in standard formats (dat, cap, dmp, pcap)
- Extended duration analysis by trace file merging
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- Passive and active application responsiveness measurements
- Response time metrics for virtually all application types
- Separates network flight time versus server think time
- 1-minute granularity: average response time, no. of active sessions, no. of successful transactions, and no. of server error types
- 15 minute granularity: maximum & average response time per client/server pair, total no. of transactions, no. of successful transactions, TCP connect time, no. of active sessions, total packet loss, responses time distribution, no. of timeouts, no. of retries, and application payload
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- Volume, utilization, host and conversation details for RTP Voice and RTP Video protocols
- Application-layer details for call set-up protocols, such as SIP, H.323, Q.931 and MGCP, plus Cisco's SCCP and Avaya's H.323 extensions
- VoIP quality metrics: jitter, call set-up time, packet loss, incomplete and failed calls, and MOS scores
- IP addresses, phone extensions and connect times
- Packet-level visibility and decode of voice protocols
- Call session recording and play-back using packet recording devices
- Voice configuration data including Codec, dialing plan and QoS assignments
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| Reporting & Capacity Planning |
- On demand, ad-hoc reports for instant collaboration
- Custom-defined scheduling of NewsPaper-style reports
- Daily, weekly and monthly trend-based reporting
- Top-down analysis through drill-downs
- HTML, PDF, Web viewer, CSV and auto-email formats
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| Alarming and Event Identification |
- Virtual interface alarming on NetFlow, QoS, Site, DLCI, VLANs and PVCs
- KPI Alarms and thresholds for utilization, errors, response time and availability metrics
- Burst Alarms at millisecond resolution
- “Power Alarms” highlight root cause by gathering top users and applications automatically at violation timeRising, falling and time-over-threshold parameters
- Auto-actions to trigger scripts, packets decode and SNMP traps
- User notification by email, visual indications in viewing console and alert notification export
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| Architecture & Scalability |
- Distributed server configurations for large or geographically dispersed environments
- Three-tiered, web-based client/server access methodology
- Standby Server options for disaster recovery
- Access control through role-based security
- User authentication through Cisco ACS Server
- Local and remote storage/accessibility of reports
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- Customizable workspaces
- Single, multi-interface and enterprise-wide perspectives
- Interface, application, host, and subnet grouping
- Aggregation by router interface, site, QoS groups, router interface-QoS, site-QoS
- Custom naming for interfaces, applications and groups
- Bi-directional (in, out, in vs. out) traffic and usage monitoring
- Maximum, average and 90P baselines
- Capacity Planning views, Link Overlays, Dual Y-axis views
- Multi-tier and multi-hop bounce charts
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- Per minute, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and custom time ranges
- 1-millisecond resolution with packet recording devices
- 15-second, real-time views with 1-second peaks
- 1-minute historically logged data for all application, hosts, and conversation flows
- Extendable data repository providing raw and summarized data for user-defined time durations
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- LAN – Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, 10-Gigabit Ethernet
- WAN – Frame Relay (T1/E1, T3(DS3)/E3),
- ATM - (T3(DS3)/E3, OC-3c, OC-12c), POS (OC-3c, OC-12c, OC-48c)
- Virtual Channels – VLANs, DLCIs, PVCs, QoS (via DSCP)
- Encrypted Channels – MPLS, IP-enabled VPN
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- Dedicated nGenius devices: nGenius Probes, nGenius AFMon, nGenius Collector
- Probes, routers, switches and other network devices supporting RMON/RMON2, Mini-RMON, NetFlow, sFlow, JFlow, IP/SLA, NAM, NAM2, NM NAM, SPAN, MIB2, Frame Relay MIB (RFC 2115), CPU & memory from Cisco devices
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- HP: Operations Manager, Network Node Manager (NNM) and Business Availability Center (BAC)
- IBM: Tivoli NetView, Tivoli Enterprise Console, Netcool/OMNIbus
- OPNet Technologies
- Evident Software
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