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Monitoring and Managing Network Application Performance |
Maintaining device and route performance is key to ensuring the delivery of critical applications. Observer Infrastructure (OI) is a powerful network monitoring solution that provides the functionality and intelligence needed to ensure the network supports current and future business.
Use OI to transform infrastructure metrics into actionable information to use in problem prevention, optimizing performance, resource planning, and more.
OI includes:
Observer Infrastructure integrates with ORS - a stand-alone appliance which simultaneously collects and aggregates data from Observer Probes, NetFlow devices, Observer Infrastructure , and other collection agents. Observer Reporting Server (ORS) offers a top-down approach that combines enterprise-wide views, macro- and micro-level reporting, and deep drill-down for problem resolution.
Maintaining device and route performance is critical to ensuring application delivery. Use ORS to correlate infrastructure and device performance with application delivery.
OI works seamlessly with the GigaStor back-in-time analysis appliance to provide the ultimate in troubleshooting flexibility. Drill down to the packet level and use GigaStor to go back to the time the problem occurred to see exactly what happened, without having to recreate the issue.
OI - Observer Infrastructure
Quickly identify which devices, routes, and IP services are up or down and how they’re performing. OI automatically detects and reports on device health using flow technologies including SNMP, WMI, WSD, IP SLA, NBAR, and WAAS. Use synthetic transactions to regularly assess the health of critical services. Intuitive graphs and table-based displays make it easy to manage IP services and the underlying infrastructure. All data is stored for long-term trending and analysis.
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OI active discovery generates a map of any segment or group of systems on the network. The simple and effective interface provides a real-time, continuous visual grade of response times and health on all network assets and routes.
Map local and remote networks of any size:
Leverage Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), and Web Service Data (WSD), and configure custom reports and alarms on any statistic the device can provide.
Gather information on:
Web Service Data (WSD) functions similarly to SNMP and WMI, obtaining performance statistics from an application. Using WSD, OI retrieves performance metrics from VMware ESX Server and Cisco WAAS Central Manager. From these metrics, network managers can obtain utilization and resource consumption metrics for virtual devices, or assess the impact of Cisco WAN optimization on performance.
Cisco's IP Service Level Agreements (IP SLA) and Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR) provide network-wide views of application and service delivery and performance. Use these technologies to improve traffic visibility on the network without deploying a single network probe.
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Ensure route availability and consistency with OI. Upon installation, OI discovers routes and creates route maps. OI then uses this data to continually measure route performance and alert of route changes or route delay. Documenting these changing paths, known as route flapping, is essential for ensuring adequate response time and enforcing SLAs.
Customize, view, expand, and compare reports for in-depth analysis on routes, devices, and groups. Track statistics over time for use in network trending and analysis.
Report types include:
OI can also keep track of and monitor changes in removable hard drives, installed software, and more. Run automatic inventories or take instant snapshots, and create alarms for specific WMI, SNMP, and WSD objects.
Be alerted when a device is unreachable or has poor response time. Choose alert mechanism, or set OI to launch a program or generate a trouble ticket.
Report types include:
OI is available as software license and an appliance to monitor 100 or 500 devices. OI Enterprise can function as a monitoring device or as a collector of information from remote sites. Choose OI Enterprise for virtually unlimited scalability and for reporting device level metrics to ORS. OI can be purchased as Windows-based software, or as one of the following appliances:
OI 100/500 Appliance |
OI Enterprise Appliance |
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| Standard Memory GB | 4 |
8 |
| Form Factor | 1.3U |
2U |
| Processor(s) | Single Quad |
Dual Quad |
| Disk Array | 1 TB |
2 TB |
| Number of Drives | 1 |
4 (RAID5) |
| Size of Array Drives | 500 GB |
| Power Consumption | OI Enterprise Appliance 0.16 A in 'off' state Power consumption = 20W 5 A Max at startup Power consumption <= 300W 3.8 A at full load Power consumption <= 250W |
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