Overview
Effective network management is more than uptime percentages. It’s about intelligence and speed: making smart, real-time decisions and responding quickly to changing conditions. To do that, you need a solution that simplifies the management of your network, end to end and all in one. Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2 is the One Management platform from Cisco (Figure 1). It provides lifecycle management and network service assurance networkwide, from the wireless user in the branch office, across the WAN, through the access layer, and now to the data center. With it, you can speed the deployment of network devices and services and find problems sooner and troubleshoot them faster. You can help employees work their own way on their own devices, at any time, and work better with each other, from anywhere. Cisco Prime Infrastructure lets you manage your network more efficiently and effectively so you can achieve the highest levels of wireless and wired network performance, service assurance, and end-user experience.Â
certification. Cisco Prime Infrastructure uses Cisco best practices and validated designs to help you reduce the time you spend running the network so you can focus on delivering new, innovative services to your end users. Figure 1. Cisco Prime Infrastructure: Simplified Management of Wireless and Wired Networks. Data Center Simplified Operations Management Assurance End-to-End Application Experience & Visibility Lifecycle Converged Management with Integrated
Spotlight on What’s New in Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2 Inside Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2, we’ve distilled what we’ve learned about lifecycle management and service assurance and packed it underneath an integrated, easyto-use user interface. We’ve automated workflows and templates for efficient deployment, enhanced monitoring for rapid troubleshooting and resolution, and hardened security with Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140 certification. Cisco Prime Infrastructure uses Cisco best practices and validated designs to help you reduce the time you spend running the network so you can focus on delivering new, innovative services to your end users. Figure 1. Cisco Prime Infrastructure: Simplified Management of Wireless and Wired Networks. Data Center Simplied Operations Management Assurance End-to-End Application Experience & Visibility Lifecycle Converged Management with Integrated Best Practices Branch to Data Center Day 0 to Day N Application-Centric With Version 2.2 and the introduction of technology packs (TechPacks) over 2.2.1, we’ve added and enhanced Cisco Prime Infrastructure in several areas such as converged access, Meraki® support, and data center (Expected availability in Q2CY15 for data center).
Converged access: Wireless TechPack brings in powerful capabilities and easy of deployment for converged access. All of the wired and wireless best practices for distributed wireless are embedded into the template-directed workflows. With this workflow, you can quickly enable four WLANs (including one guest), recommended security and wireless best practices, as well as application visibility. Convergedaccess workflow drastically reduces the time and complexity in deploying converged-access technology for Cisco Catalyst® 2900, Catalyst 3800, and Cisco IOS® XE Software-based controllers such as the Cisco 5760 Wireless LAN Controllers. • Meraki integration: Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2.1 can now support management of Meraki devices through the wireless technology pack. You can now manage a Meraki device in Cisco Prime Infrastructure natively, and can cross-launch into the Meraki Dashboard right from within the device work center. • Data center: Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2 extends management into the data center. A single view and point of control lets you reap the benefits of One Management across both network and compute. The all-new compute work center offers fault, performance management, and 360-degree views of Cisco Unified Computing Systemâ„¢ (Cisco UCS®) B-Series blade servers and C-Series rack servers, along with visibility of virtual infrastructure from VMware (Figure 2)Â
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so you can correlate your physical and virtual server environments from a single-pane-of-glass view. This release also adds support for Cisco Nexus® 9300 Series switches alongside existing support for other Cisco Nexus switches. The TechPack release (Q2CY15 availability) adds visibility of virtual overlay over the physical network by bringing the virtual port channel inventory support for the Cisco Nexus platforms. Figure 2. Cisco UCS Servers Network View Details • Intelligent WAN: Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2 radically simplifies the deployment and management of Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN) devices and services with guided workflows based on Cisco validated designs and best practices. It speeds provisioning for services such as Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN) and Performance Routing (PfR) and simplifies quality-of-service (QoS) configuration and monitoring. The new Application Visibility and Control (AVC) Work Center discovers and classifies application-visibility readiness in network device hardware and software. Now it’s easier and faster to deploy Cisco IWAN devices and services in branch offices and to automatically monitor and manage them. • Operations center: Large or global organizations often distribute network management by domain, region, or country. Cisco Prime Infrastructure Operations Center lets you visualize up to 10 Cisco Prime Infrastructure instances, scaling your network management infrastructure while maintaining central visibility and control.
