Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager

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Manage a Converged Data Center Fabric

Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) is designed to help you efficiently implement, visualize, and manage Cisco Unified Fabric. It includes a comprehensive feature set, along with a customizable dashboard that provides enhanced visibility and automated fabric provisioning of dynamic data centers.

Video Data Sheet

Learn about converged management for unified LAN and SAN deployments. (3:39 min)

Video Guide to DCNM

Learn how to deploy and use DCNM features for troubleshooting, resource planning, and configuration.

Features and Capabilities

Cisco Prime DCNM provisions and optimizes the overall uptime and reliability of your data center fabric. This advanced management product:

Provides self service provisioning of intelligent and scalable fabrics
Centralizes fabric management to facilitate resource moves, adds, and changes
Proactively monitors the SAN and LAN, and detects performance degradation
Opens northbound application programming interfaces (APIs) for Cisco and third-party management and orchestration platforms
Eases diagnosis and troubleshooting of data center outages
Simplifies operational management of virtualized data centers

Primary Benefits of Cisco DCNM

Offers intuitive, large-scale fabric visualization along with domain views
Provides cable plan validation and detection
Features a centralized image and configuration repository
Communicates with Cisco Prime Network Services Controller for physical and virtual service integration
Helps you resolve problems faster