Cisco Systems 5, NAM manual Dashboards, Logical Site

Chapter 1 Overview

Introducing NAM Traffic Analyzer 5.0

Cisco NAM includes an embedded, web-based Traffic Analyzer GUI that provides quick access to the configuration menus and presents easy-to-read performance monitoring and analysis on web, voice, and video traffic.

Dashboards

The Cisco NAM Traffic Analyzer, Release 5.0 introduces a redesigned interface and user experience, with more intuitive workflows and interactive reporting capabilities. The dashboard-style layouts show multiple charts in one window, thereby giving you the ability to view a lot of information at once.

There are two types of dashboards in NAM 5.0: One type is the “summary” views found under the Monitor menu, and the other type is the “over time” views found under the Analyze menu. The Monitor dashboards allow you to view network traffic, application performance, site performance, and alarms at a glance. From there, you can isolate one area, for example an application with response time issues, and then drill-down to the Analyze dashboard for further investigation.

Figure 1-1shows an example of one of the Monitoring dashboards in the NAM 5.0 release.

Figure 1-1 Dashboard in NAM 5.0

The Analyze dashboards allow you to zoom or pan to reselect the range. As you change the range, the related graphs at the bottom will update.

The dashboards can be extracted as a PNG. You can also create a Scheduled Export to have the dashboards extracted regularly and sent to you in CSV or HTML format (see Scheduled Exports, page 2-53).

Logical Site

Cisco NAM Traffic Analyzer 5.0 introduces the capability for users to define a site, with which you can aggregate and organize performance statistics. A site is a collection of hosts (network endpoints) partitioned into views that help you monitor traffic and troubleshoot problems. A site can be defined as

User Guide for the Cisco Network Analysis Module (NAM) Traffic Analyzer, 5.0

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