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Benefits of Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker
See how Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker offers a simple, scalable, and cost-effective monitoring solution for high-volume and business-critical traffic.
Extend your visibility
Gain extensive visibility for high-density data center switches with speeds up to 100/400G (Gigabit Ethernet) and analytics. Ideal for increasing traffic volumes and highly complex multipath networks.
Grow at scale with speed
Monitor your network efficiently, no matter how many ports, switches, or taps you have. Scale easily as your network grows.
Cut costs and save more
Cut network monitoring spend with simple, cost-effective, standard Cisco Nexus switches.
Industry-leading features and capabilities
Experience the industry's latest innovations with advanced analytics for even the most complex and busy data center networks.
Monitor, manage, and grow your operations with ease
Flexible deployment
- Centralized controller for large-scale deployments
- On-switch embedded controller
- Granular control in a multiuser environment
- Operate with web-based NDB UI or automate with NDB REST APIs
TAP/SPAN aggregation
- Flexible aggregation and replication
- Versatile filters: L2/L3/L4 header filters, MPLS filter, and user-defined filter (UDF)
- VLAN strip, MPLS strip, 802.1Q tagging, PTP time stamp insertion, and packet truncation
- SPAN automation for Cisco ACI and NX-OS mode
- Visibility into virtual TAP traffic (VM-to-VM traffic) or ACI EPG ERSPAN traffic
Inline monitoring
- Detection and automatic remediation of service node failures
- Real-time traffic replication and monitoring scalable service nodes for multiple production paths
Latest innovations
- Generate NetFlow records at line rate for ingress traffic
- Send traffic to remote tool over an L3 network
- Automated upgrades and replacement of hardware
- Bulk updates of device credentials using credential profile
Discover what's inside the Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker
Explore the details of the Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker and find your ideal fit.
Meet your business goals with power and simplicity.
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker
- A simple and intuitive web-based user interface to manage aggregating, filtering, forwarding, and replicating rules
- REST APIs to automate and adapt the rules dynamically
- Runs in a centralized virtual machine or in the guest shell on Nexus NDB switch
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches
- Proven high performance and density up to 400G, as well as low latency
- High programmability and exceptional power efficiency in a range of form factors
FAQ
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker (formerly Nexus Data Broker) allows NetOps to programmatically manage aggregating, filtering, and forwarding complete flows to custom analytics tools.
Its functionality can be used on almost any available off-the-shelf data center Cisco Nexus 9000 switches on both fixed and modular switches.
The controller software can run on any bare-metal server or virtual machine, on leaf switches in ACI fabric, and on individual Catalyst switches through Cisco Catalyst center.
For every Data Broker switch purchased/repurposed, an NDB license (Subscription, Perpetual) should be added to the Bill of Materials (BOM). Nexus Dashboard Data Broker controller software is offered for free.