The Routed WAN Management Solution (RWAN) offers a collection of powerful network management applications for configuring, administering, monitoring, and troubleshooting the complexity associated with managing router devices in a wide area network (WAN). Its traffic tools can access full RMON statistics collected via Cisco`s previously offered WAN probes or equivalent WAN probes offered by NetScout Systems.
The Routed WAN Management Solution can be deployed "standalone" or "alongside" your existing NMS products. This reduces the complexities related to understanding multi-dimensional, cross product prerequisites. This product can be used to create a basis for your Management Intranet, its framework offers an integrated, web based access point to enterprise management tools and offers a 'load-n-launch` interface to popular NMS products and best-of-breed point tools without being tied to proprietary APIs.
The following applications are included in the Routed WAN Management Solution offering:
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Access Control List Manager (ACL)
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Internet Performance Monitor (IPM)
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nGenius Real-Time Monitor (RTM)
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Resource Manager Essentials (RME)
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CiscoView (CD-One)
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CiscoWorks Management Server (CD-One)
The CiscoWorks2000 Routed WAN Management Solution is aimed at providing a set of robust applications and functionality for managing the router elements of a wide area network and the infrastructure which supports them. The following highlights key features and benefits broken out by the Routed WAN Solution`s applications.
Access List Manager provides a wizard and template based approach to simplifying the setup, management and optimization of Cisco IOS-based IP and IPX traffic filtering and device access control. ACL Manager significantly reduces the time typically required to manage and administrate access control lists.
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Access control list authoring interface
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Network and service class manager for scalability and efficiency
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Access list template manager for implementing filtering policies
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ACL Manager uses a process wizard to assist in the consistent deployment of ACLs
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Access List Optimizer helps reduce ACL size and optimize device performance
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DiffViewer allows the review and identification of changes being made
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Downloader to assist in the consistent and accurate download of ACL changes to the network
nGenius Real-Time Monitor is a comprehensive collection of network traffic monitoring and troubleshooting application providing WAN administrators with early visibility into network issues and problems before they become critical or cause degradation.
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Used in conjunction with Cisco`s previously offered WAN Probes, RTM TD provides excellent tools for monitoring data, voice and VPN link performance and utilization
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Assists in troubleshooting and isolating problems in the network with sophisticated packet capture and decode analysis
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Provides an easy to use web-based interface to easily monitor and graph real-time and historical network performance
Internetwork Performance Monitor is a network response time and availability troubleshooting application that enables WAN administrators to proactively troubleshoot network response times utilizing instrumentation inside the devices on the network.
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Provides increased visibility into actual round trip response times between key Cisco IOS based devices on the network
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Reports the responsiveness of WAN connection to determine where bottlenecks are.
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Provides real-time analysis of end-to-end hop delays
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Provide information useful in optimizing VPN environments
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Web accessible real-time and historical reports
Resource Manager Essentials is a powerful suite of web-based network management solutions for small to large scale Enterprise networks. RME simplifies network management, handling many of the time-consuming administrative tasks associated with managing a network.
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Quickly builds a complete network inventory
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Monitors and reports on hardware, configuration, and inventory changes
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Manages and deploys configuration changes and software image updates to multiple devices
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Simplifies monitoring and troubleshooting of critical local-area network (LAN) and wide-area network (WAN) resources
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VPN Management Solution drawer for focused basic VPN Management
CiscoView a web based management tool provides dynamic status, statistics, and comprehensive configuration information for Cisco internetworking products (switches, routers, hubs, concentrators, and access servers). CiscoView is included on CD-One.
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Anytime anywhere access to detailed device information
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Graphical views of devices with color-coded indications of status
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Browser access to configuration and monitoring tools
CiscoWorks Server Management Server provides base management components, services, and security across the CiscoWorks family of solutions. Also provides the foundation for integrating with other Cisco and third party applications.
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Provides application access security that controls user access to applications to change network parameters or view as read-only.
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Third party integration tools (integration utility) simplifies the Web integration of third-party and other Cisco management tools.
The following table contains general system requirements for the CiscoWorks2000 management server and its client components. System requirements will increase depending on how individual RWAN applications are installed. For more detailed system requirements and recommendations for tuning the management system for performance, refer to individual RWAN application installation guides and release notes http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/rtrmgmt/cw2000.
