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Routed WAN Management Solution

Chapter 5 Summary of Software Applications Features

External Software Applications

Routed WAN Management Solution

Routed WAN Management Solution provides wide-area network monitoring, troubleshooting, traffic management, access control, and applications to administer the routed infrastructure of multiservice and VPN routing platforms built with Cisco products. Table 5-12summarizes the applications included in the Routed WAN Management Solution.

Table 5-12 Applications Included in CiscoWorks2000 Routed WAN Management Solution

Application

Key Function

Key Benefits

 

 

 

Access Control List (ACL)

ACL optimization

Improves router performance by

Manager

 

organizing ACL filters to sort by

 

 

most frequent usage patterns

 

 

 

 

ACL profiles

Allows administrators to quickly

 

 

and uniformly apply and update

 

 

policy-based ACLs, reducing

 

 

WAN costs and enhancing security

 

 

management

 

 

 

 

ACL distribution

Allows administrators to automate

 

 

the updating of ACL information in

 

 

multiple devices

 

 

 

Internetwork Performance

Monitoring of WAN response

Determines the responsiveness of

Monitor (IPM)

time characteristics

WAN connections to find

 

 

bottlenecks; provides real-time

 

 

analysis of end-to-end hop delays

 

 

 

TrafficDirector

Remote Monitoring

Monitors and troubleshoots LAN

 

(RMON/RMON2) statistics

traffic at the physical, protocol,

 

collection from Cisco devices

and application layers

 

and probes

 

 

 

 

 

Setup of traffic-related

Implements a proactive monitoring

 

thresholds and monitoring of

system to inform administrators of

 

historical traffic patterns

unusual traffic characteristics

 

 

 

 

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