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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.........................................................................................................................................................65