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TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE
Cisco Performance Visibility Manager 1.0
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................................................4
DATA COLLECTION AND TRAFFIC ANALYSIS ..........................................................................................................................4
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS INCLUDING TOP-N ANALYSIS..................................................................................................................4
ART MONITORING .......................................................................................................................................................................4
HISTORICAL INFORMATION........................................................................................................................................................4
REAL TIME AND TRENDING REPORTS .......................................................................................................................................4
PROACTIVE MONITORING...........................................................................................................................................................4
NAM GUI DRILL DOWN ..............................................................................................................................................................5
CISCOWORKS AND LDAP INTEGRATION ..................................................................................................................................5
DEPLOYMENT CONSIDERATIONS AND PLANNING ..........................................................................................................6
STEPS IN THE PVM DEPLOYMENT PROCESS.............................................................................................................................6
Basic questions about the Problems to be addressed ..............................................................................................................7
Placing Cisco NAM in Your Network .....................................................................................................................................7
Typical workflow for deploying Cisco PVM............................................................................................................................8
Configure the NAMs in Your Network....................................................................................................................................8
Deploy PVM and add the NAMs in Cisco PVM......................................................................................................................8
Create the Datasource Groups (DSGs) in Cisco PVM............................................................................................................9
Start monitoring your network using Cisco PVM...................................................................................................................9
USAGE SCENARIOS ....................................................................................................................................................................10
NAM SETUP................................................................................................................................................................................10
CISCO PVM INITIAL SETUP.......................................................................................................................................................11
USAGE SCENARIOS: GATHER STATISTICS AND TEST MONITORING AND TROUBLESHOOTING .......................................19
Scenario 1: Traffic Profiling .................................................................................................................................................19
Scenario 2: Proactive Monitoring .........................................................................................................................................25
Scenario 3: Troubleshooting .................................................................................................................................................31
OVERVIEW OF PVM FUNCTIONALITY .....................................................................................................................................35
Traffic Analysis using Cisco PVM ........................................................................................................................................35
Application Response Time Analysis in Cisco PVM.............................................................................................................42
Baselining and Alerts in Cisco PVM .....................................................................................................................................46
CISCO PVM REQUIREMENTS AND SIZING...............................................................................................................................51
CISCO PVM INSTALLATION AND UNINSTALLATION .............................................................................................................52
MAINTAINING AND TROUBLESHOOTING CISCO PVM...........................................................................................................56
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................................................................59
APPENDIX .....................................................................................................................................................................................60
DEPLOYMENT Q&A...................................................................................................................................................................60
DEPLOYMENT TROUBLESHOOTING.........................................................................................................................................63
FOR MORE INFORMATION.........................................................................................................................................................65