TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

Cisco Performance Visibility Manager 1.0

INTRODUCTION

4

DATA COLLECTION AND TRAFFIC ANALYSIS

4

TRAFFIC ANALYSIS INCLUDING TOP-N ANALYSIS

4

ART MONITORING

4

HISTORICAL INFORMATION

4

REAL TIME AND TRENDING REPORTS

4

PROACTIVE MONITORING

4

NAM GUI DRILL DOWN

5

CISCOWORKS AND LDAP INTEGRATION

5

DEPLOYMENT CONSIDERATIONS AND PLANNING

6

STEPS IN THE PVM DEPLOYMENT PROCESS

6

Basic questions about the Problems to be addressed

7

Placing Cisco NAM in Your Network

7

Typical workflow for deploying Cisco PVM

8

Configure the NAMs in Your Network

8

Deploy PVM and add the NAMs in Cisco PVM

8

Create the Datasource Groups (DSGs) in Cisco PVM

9

Start monitoring your network using Cisco PVM

9

USAGE SCENARIOS

10

NAM SETUP

10

CISCO PVM INITIAL SETUP

11

USAGE SCENARIOS: GATHER STATISTICS AND TEST MONITORING AND TROUBLESHOOTING

19

Scenario 1: Traffic Profiling

19

Scenario 2: Proactive Monitoring

25

Scenario 3: Troubleshooting

31

OVERVIEW OF PVM FUNCTIONALITY

35

Traffic Analysis using Cisco PVM

35

Application Response Time Analysis in Cisco PVM

42

Baselining and Alerts in Cisco PVM

46

CISCO PVM REQUIREMENTS AND SIZING

51

CISCO PVM INSTALLATION AND UNINSTALLATION

52

MAINTAINING AND TROUBLESHOOTING CISCO PVM

56

CONCLUSION

59

APPENDIX

60

DEPLOYMENT Q&A

60

DEPLOYMENT TROUBLESHOOTING

63

FOR MORE INFORMATION

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