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Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0

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Cisco® Multicast Manager 3.0 simplifies discovery, visualization, monitoring, management, and troubleshooting of multicast networks to help ensure mission-critical business continuity. The video operations solution (VOS) add-on provides monitoring support for video probes to proactively detect poor-quality video that is being transported across an IP multicast infrastructure. The Multicast VPN (MVPN) add-on feature gives customers the ability to manage their Virtual Route Forwarding (VRF) tables by monitoring the service provider edge routers along with presenting on-demand views of the MVPN environment by provider edge router or VRF table.

New Features

New features in version 3.0 include:

• New User Interface: Enhanced user interface for improved usability, information display, workflow, navigation, and functional organization:

– A hierarchical presentation of features with better categorization

– Streamlined navigation linkage of configuration, reports, and diagnostics functionality

– Richer event browser with multiple filters for improved event analysis

– Multicast topology viewer

• Dashboard: Display Cisco Multicast Manager monitoring and event information, including events, real-time graphs, quick links, device lists, reports, and user activity.

• Improved System Performance and Scalability: Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0 moves from a file-based data storage system to an internal RDBMS for improved system performance and scalability.

• Role-based Access Control: Embedded authentication, authorization, and accounting capabilities provide customizable access and auditing of Cisco Multicast Manager features:

– Authentication: Support for remote TACACS or local authentication. New inactivity log out feature.

– Authorization: Functionality within Cisco Multicast Manager can be granted to different user roles, including system administrator, network administrator, network operator, and help desk.

– Accounting: Critical actions within Cisco Multicast Manager are logged, including user ID, action taken, date, time, and action result.

• VMware Support: Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0 has been tested to operate in a VMware ESX 3.5 virtual environment.

• (Optional) Multivendor Video Probe Support: Support for RFC 4445 Media Delivery Index (MDI) video quality monitoring, including Media Loss Rate (MLR) and Delay Factor (DF) parameters. Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0 supports integration with leading video probe vendors IneoQuest iVMS 4.0, BridgeTech Probe v3.7, and Mixed Signals Sentry Engine (build 1462.408) to provide efficient, real-time video fault information.

• Heartbeat Trap: A user-configurable option to have Cisco Multicast Manager send periodic traps to external trap receivers to verify the continuous online status of Cisco Multicast Manager.

• Telnet and Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol support: Flexible device access

• WSDL-based Northbound API: Allows integration with external applications

• Redhat Linux AS5 support

• Cisco IOS® XR device support

• Cisco ASR 1000 family device support

Upgrade Paths

Cisco Multicast Manager 2.x customers can upgrade to Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0 through Base Upgrade kits. Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0 customers with 200 device (SM) and 500 device (MD) licenses can upgrade to an Unrestricted (UR) license of Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0 through Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0 Upgrade kits. Customers can chose to add VOS and MVPN feature kits for an additional cost.

Availability

Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0 will be orderable beginning on March 30, 2009, and will begin shipping on April 10, 2009.
The Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0 60-day trial version will be available for download at http://www.cisco.com/go/nmsevals beginning on April 13, 2009.
An evaluation license key is required. To obtain a key, please email get-cmm-key-eval@cisco.com with your name, company name, and IP address of the intended Cisco Multicast Manager server. The evaluation license key will be generated and emailed to you within 48 hours.

Ordering Information

To place an order, visit the Cisco Ordering Homepage. To download software, visit the Cisco Software Center.

Table 1. Ordering Information

Product Name

Part Number

CMM 3.0 Base. Supports up to 200 devices and 100 Sources. Linux and Solaris

CMM3.0-BASE-SM-K9

CMM 3.0 Base. Supports up to 500 devices and 200 sources. Linux and Solaris

CMM3.0-BASE-MD-K9

CMM 3.0 Base. Unrestricted number of devices and sources. Linux and Solaris

CMM3.0-BASE-UR-K9

Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0 Optional VOS Feature. Requires Base.

CMM3.0-VOS-FS

Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0 Optional VOS Feature. Requires Base.

CMM3.0-VOS-FS=

Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0 Optional MVPN Feature. Requires Base.

CMM3.0-MVPN-FS

Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0 Optional MVPN Feature. Requires Base.

CMM3.0-MVPN-FS=

CMM 3.0 Upgrade. Upgrades CMM 3.0 SM to CMM 3.0 Medium (MD) License.

CMM3.0-UP-SM2MD

CMM 3.0 Upgrade. Upgrades CMM 3.0 SM to CMM 3.0 Medium (MD) License.

CMM3.0-UP-SM2MD=

CMM 3.0 Upgrade. Upgrades CMM 3.0 MD to CMM 3.0 Unrestricted License.

CMM3.0-UP-MD2UR

CMM 3.0 Upgrade. Upgrades CMM 3.0 MD to CMM 3.0 Unrestricted License.

CMM3.0-UP-MD2UR=

CMM 3.0 Base Upgrade. Upgrades CMM 2.x SM to 3.0 SM Base. Linux and Solaris

CMM2.X-3.0-UGSM-K9

CMM 3.0 Base Upgrade. Upgrades CMM 2.x MD to 3.0 MD Base. Linux and Solaris

CMM2.X-3.0-UGMD-K9

CMM 3.0 Base Upgrade. Upgrades CMM 2.x SM to 3.0 Unrestricted Base. Linux and Solaris

CMM2.X-3.0-UGUR-K9

Service and Support

Using the Cisco Lifecycle Services approach, Cisco and its partners provide a broad portfolio of end-to-end services and support that can help increase your network's business value and return on investment. This approach defines the minimum set of activities needed, by technology and by network complexity, to help you successfully deploy and operate Cisco technologies and optimize their performance throughout the lifecycle of your network.

For More Information

For more information about Cisco Multicast Manager, visit http://www.cisco.com/go/cmm, contact your local account representative, or send an email to ask-cmm-pm@cisco.com.