Network Management
A better way to manage your network
Learn how to design, provision, enable policy, and assure network performance from one place.
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Network Management
Improve operational efficiency and reduce downtime, using class-leading products and solutions for managing an enterprise network.
Cisco DNA Center
- Centralized dashboard helps you manage your software-defined network across campus, branch, WAN, and cloud
- Intuitive work flow makes it easy to design, provision, and apply policy
- Policy-driven automation delivers better uptime and improved security
- Assurance uses network insights to optimize network performance and the user experience
Cisco Prime Infrastructure
- Ideal for wired and wireless access, plus campus and branch networks
- Helps enable converged lifecycle management
- Provides application-assurance visibility and troubleshooting
- Simplifies compliance auditing
Cisco Prime Virtual Network Analysis Module (vNAM)
- Offers massive deployment flexibility
- Provides consistent visibility in physical, virtual, and cloud environments
- Helps improve operational agility, permitting rapid responses to new business demands
- Installs on x86 platforms with ESXi and KVM virtualization infrastructures
Meraki Dashboard
- Cloud-managed control of the entire network for wireless, switching, and security appliances
- Zero-touch provisioning for rapid deployment
- Intuitive interface eliminates costly training and added staff
- Continuous feature updates delivered from the cloud
- Highly available and secure (PCI/HIPAA compliant)
Network Management for Service Providers
Help maximize efficiencies in operations, management, and fulfillment of carrier-class services, supporting advanced networks.
Evolved Programmable Network Management
- A simplified, converged, and multilayer management solution that provides end-to-end lifecycle management for carrier-grade networks of all sizes
- Enables service providers to reduce time-to-market of network services, and time from device introduction or features updates to actual network deployment
- Promotes business agility and operational efficiencies through automated device operations, fast provisioning, and proactive assurance
Cisco Prime Carrier Management
- Offers comprehensive, unified, multidomain management for multiple technologies, services, and subscriber access domains
- Enables carrier-class delivery of voice, video, mobile, cloud, and managed services
- Accelerates service deployments through rapid, profile-based provisioning
- Enhances quality of service (QoS) by gathering actionable performance statistics across the entire network
- Increases operational scale and efficiency through comprehensive device administration and fault management
Cisco Prime Network Registrar
- Provides integrated, scalable DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (IPAM)
- Helps automate and manage the transition from IPv4 to IPv6
- Provides reliability with DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 failover and avalanche prevention
- Centralizes and automates management of IP address space and DNS and DHCP servers
Cisco Prime Access Registrar
- Carrier class solution for RADIUS/Diameter AAA services
- Supports a broad range of wireless and wireline access technologies
- Extensibility: Extremely customizable and flexible to meet unique business, regulatory, and technical requirements
- Scalability: Supports tens of millions of simultaneous active sessions
Cisco Prime Home
- Automated remote management of connected home devices, including zero-touch provisioning, configuration, and software upgrades
- Real-time problem diagnosis and troubleshooting
- Configurable threshold-based alerts and work flows triggered by device activity
- Easy integration into existing service provider systems using web-based APIs
Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning
- Automated identification, unique configuration, and management of residential CPE devices
- Fast, efficient provisioning of subscriber services for accelerated activation
- High reliability through a distributed architecture and failover support
- Scalability: Supports more than 50 million devices in a single customer deployment
Network Management for Small and Midsize Businesses
Find network management products and services tailored for small to medium-sized businesses.
Cisco Configuration Professional for Catalyst
- Web-based user interface
- Simple configuration
- Comprehensive monitoring
- Quick troubleshooting
Cisco FindIT Manager
- Improves security and performance
- Enhances network reliability with less downtime
- Improves troubleshooting
- Reduces time and resource requirements
Network Automation
Automate policy-based application profiles, allowing IT to respond rapidly to new business opportunities.
Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module (APIC-EM)
- Provides automation for Cisco's Digital Network Architecture
- Delivers software-defined networking to the enterprise branch, campus, and WAN
- Massively simplifies configuration and provisioning
- Automates security and threat remediation across the network end to end
- Open APIs and programmability can enable rapid innovation
Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
- Unifying point of automation and management for the Application Centric Infrastructure fabric
- Open architecture to integrate Layer 4-7 service, virtualization, and management vendors
- Intelligent telemetry and visibility for applications and tenants
- Provides security for multitenant environments at scale
- A common policy platform for physical, virtual, and cloud networking
Data Center Management
Save time, provide clear visibility, and strengthen control over operations.
Overview: Data Center Management and Automation
Cisco UCS Director
- Simplifies data-center operations
- Offers central management of network components and services
- Automates tasks to improve IT efficiency
- Speeds service delivery
Cisco UCS Director Express for Big Data
- Automates Hadoop deployment for big-data infrastructure
- Offers a single management view for both hardware and Hadoop software
- Designed for high performance and massive scalability
- Customize by building your own add-ons or integrating with third-party solutions
Cisco Prime Service Catalog
- Facilitates self-service for your users, improving efficiency
- Automates delivery of application, data-center, and business services
- Helps ensure compliance through policy, role, and lifecycle management
Cisco CloudCenter
- Deploy and manage applications in your data center and public and private cloud
- Choose your best deployment environment based on price and performance
- Combine infrastructure and app automation
- Manage policy, cloud migration, and application upgrades
- Use a single interface to manage policy and security
Nexus Switching Management and Automation
These products manage Nexus data-center switches.
Cisco Data Center Network Manager
- Automation: Accelerate provisioning from days to minutes, and simplify deployments
- Visibility: Reduce troubleshooting cycles with. Graphical operational visibility for topology, network fabric and infrastructure
- Consistency: Eliminate configuration errors with templates, compliance alerts and automatic remediation
Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation
- Offers optimized fabric infrastructure for enhanced efficiency and scale
- Centralizes fabric management across physical servers and virtual machines
- Provides automatic network provisioning for easy deployments
- Gives you host, network, and tenant visibility
- Open APIs allow for better integration with orchestration and automation tools
Cisco UCS Director
- Simplifies data-center operations
- Offers central management of network components and services
- Automates tasks to improve IT efficiency
- Speeds service delivery
Network Management
Cisco network management solutions help you optimize your data center and network operations.