Cisco Systems ICS-7750 manual 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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