Table 1 - Element and Infrastructure Management
RWAN - CiscoWorks Routed WAN Management Solution:
The CiscoWorks Routed WAN Management Solution extends the CiscoWorks product family, providing a collection of powerful enterprise management applications to configure, administer, and troubleshoot routed wide-area networks, thereby dramatically reducing their complexity. This suite of solution applications provides increased visibility into network behavior and quickly identifies performance bottlenecks that can impact short and long-term performance trends. It also provides sophisticated configuration tools to optimize bandwidth and utilizationacross critical WAN links in the network.
CWW - CiscoWorks for Windows:
CiscoWorks for Windows is a comprehensive web-based network management solution for small to medium business networks. This cost-effective and easy-to-learn product provides a powerful set of monitoring and configuration tools for administering Cisco-based switch, router, hub, and access server networks. Using WhatsUp Gold from Ipswitch, you can also monitor printers, workstations, servers, and important network services.
SNMS - CiscoWorks Small Network Management Solution:
CiscoWorks SNMS is a part of the CiscoWorks family of products for managing small to large networks. CiscoWorks SNMS is a new Web-based network management solution aimed at small to medium businesses (SMB), with 20 or fewer Cisco internetworking devices such as switches, routers, hubs and access servers.CiscoWorks SNMS can also monitor non-Cisco IT assets such as servers, applications, services and printers.
CiscoWorks SNMS is a collection of Windows 2000 based network management applications that fill the needs of the technically savvy customer in the SMB space. CiscoWorks SNMS allows users to monitor and set thresholds for a large number of servers and non- Cisco devices. It provides a powerful set of lifecycle functionality including configuration management and troubleshooting tools for Cisco devices.
LMS - CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution:
CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS) is part of the CiscoWorks family of network solutions providing a robust set of applications for maintaining, monitoring, and troubleshooting a broad-range of devices in an end-to-end Cisco AVVID network.
LMS provides a solid foundation of basic and advanced management applications that enable network operators to more efficiently manage the network.
NAM - Cisco Network Analysis Module:
IP fabric enabled traffic monitoring blade for the Catalyst 6500 chasis. NAM helps to understand and utilize network resources to detect and isolate network problems and provides standards-based performance monitoring, troubleshooting, capacity planing and reporting.
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Table 2 - IP Telephony and Critical Traffic Management
ITEM - CiscoWorks IP Telephony Environment Monitor:
The CiscoWorks IP Telephony Environment Monitor (ITEM) (formerly VoIP Health Monitor) is a suite of network management applications and several optional drop-in modules that provide a powerful solution to monitor and manage IP telephony implementations. CiscoWorks ITEM enables operations and administrative personnel to check the state and operational health of key resources in their converged networks that support IP telephony as well as voice-over-IP (VoIP) implementations.
CiscoWorks ITEM uses several open, Internet standards, as well as the inherent capabilities of Cisco Systems devices, to allow operations personnel to manage increasingly complex IP networks. CiscoWorks ITEM provides the real-time information necessary to instill high confidence that Cisco-based IP telephony environments are performing as expected.
QPM - Cisco QoS Policy Manager:
Cisco QoS Policy Manager (QPM) is a key enabler of Cisco's end-to-end quality of service for enterprise networks. QPM delivers differentiated and integrated services across network infrastructures with converged voice, video and data applications. Network administrators use QPM as a complete system for application- and user-based centralized policy control and automated reliable policy deployment. The end result is network-wide intelligent, consistent QoS that allows performance protection for voice, video and Internet business applications while reducing costs for growing networks.
Cisco QPM solutions enable you to:
Easily configure QoS for VoIP in AVVID networks
Extend QoS differentiation for Content Networking through Network-based Application Recognition support
Manage dynamic, user-based policies featuring directory-enabled network technology
Provision end-to-end services and maintain service level agreements in combination with CiscoWorks 2000 Service Management Solution
Apply access control policies for extended network and application security
Take advantage of extensive switch and router device support as well as comprehensive IOS
CVM - CiscoWorks Voice Manager:
CiscoWorks2000 Voice Manager 2.1 (CVM) is a client-server, web-based voice management and reporting solution. The application provides enhanced capabilities to configure and provision voice ports, and create and modify dial plans on voice-enabled Cisco routers for voice over IP (VoIP), voice over Frame Relay (VoFR), and voice over ATM (VoATM) network deployments. Products managed include the Cisco 1700, 2600, and 3600 series, MC3810 series, AS5300, AS5350, AS5400, and AS5800 series universal access servers, and 7200 and 7500 series routers. Additionally, CVM provides a powerful reporting tool that allows users to select report types to analyze traffic data. Enhanced reporting capabilities and additional data source information collection is optionally available.
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Table 3 - Security and Identity Management
VMS - CiscoWorks VPN/Security Management Solution:
CiscoWorks VPN/Security Management Solution (VMS), an integral part of the SAFE blueprint for network security, combines Web-based tools for configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting enterprise virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and network and host-based intrusion detection systems (IDS). CiscoWorks VMS delivers the industry’s first robust and scalable foundation and feature set that addresses the needs of small and large-scale VPN and security deployments.
ACS - Cisco Secure Access Control Server:
Centralizes access control and authorization for dialup access servers, VPNs and firewalls, VoIP solutions, broadband access, content networks and Cisco Wireless solutions. ACS tracks and reports user behavior in the network; records remote access connections and device configuration changes.
URT - Cisco Secure User Registeration Tool:
Partitions LAN user traffic through VLAN port assignments based on a user's identity. URT enables user login-based dynamic VLANs.
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