Operational Phase

Application

Description

Device staging and configuration

WebUI

● A GUI-based device-management tool for Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE Software-based access routers. This tool simplifies routing, firewall, VPN, unified communications, and WAN and LAN configuration through easy-to-use wizards.

Network-wide deployment, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting

Cisco Prime Infrastructure

● Offers comprehensive lifecycle management of wired and wireless access, campus, and branch-office networks, rich visibility into end-user connectivity, and application performance assurance.

● Provides wired lifecycle functions such as inventory, configuration, and image management; automated deployment; compliance reporting; integrated best practices; and reporting.

Staging, deployment, and changes to configuration and image files

Cisco Configuration Engine

● A secure network management product that provides zero-touch image and configuration distribution through centralized, template-based management.

Context-aware security configuration and monitoring

Cisco Prime Security Manager

● Management tool for configuring and managing context-aware security. The application supports both single- and multi-device manager form factors.

● Provides the ability to write and enforce the granular context-aware security policies.

Cisco Wide Area Application Service (WAAS) management

Cisco WAAS Central Manager

● The management tool for the WAAS1,(WAN optimization and application acceleration) integrated service. It provides a centralized mechanism for configuring WAAS features, reporting, and monitoring.

Feature

Description

Cisco IOS Embedded Event Manager

● A distributed and customized approach to event detection and recovery.

● Offers the ability to monitor events and take informational, corrective, or any desired EEM action when the monitored events occur or when a threshold is reached.

Cisco IOS XE IP Service-Level Agreements

● Helps assure the performance of new business-critical IP applications as well as IP services that use data and voice in an IP network.

SNMP, Remote Monitoring, syslog,NetFlow, IP Flow Information Export (IPFix)

● Network monitoring and accounting tools.