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Network Management Solutions
From CCIE and CCNP Premier Professionals
Network management systems help organizations to implement infrastructure effectively, look up client details quickly, monitor network operation, troubleshoot problems, protect against and react to cyber attacks, and maximize responsiveness. Network management systems can help detect inefficient or improper uses of network resources such as streaming media or peer-to-peer file sharing that can burn up bandwidth, reduce worker output or allow data leakage. A prudently crafted network management solution can also help organizations to make informed network enhancement moves by showing tendencies in resource demand for different times or activities.
Cisco offers a diverse and expanding portfolio of network management solutions that support centralized management for local, cloud-based, or hybrid network architectures. With Cisco's later security, switching, and Wi-Fi networking products, you can run Meraki, Cisco DNA Center, or CLI management platforms for network monitoring and management. For instance, you can connect newer Catalyst or Meraki switches and Catalyst or Meraki WiFi 6/6E APs to the Meraki dashboard to monitor and manage critical components of your network infrastructure from the cloud. Progent's Cisco Catalyst Wi-Fi access point experts, Meraki Wi-Fi AP consultants, Catalyst switches consultants, and Cisco Meraki switches consulting experts can assist your organization to design, implement and optimize a modern environment for network infrastructure monitoring and management.
Legacy Network Management Tools from Cisco and Others
An abundance of network management products from Cisco and third-party vendors highlights the value and complexity of supporting IT infrastructure. Progent's Cisco-certified network management engineers are experienced at assisting companies design network management strategies based on Simple Network Management Protocol, SYSLOG services, and Cisco IOS NetFlow to create powerful mechanisms for network bandwidth usage and network latency, monitoring important router and switch performance metrics, and identifying traffic profiles, applications, and appliances utilizing network resources.
Progent can assist customers to deploy a broad range of open source and license-based monitoring and management products to manage a Cisco network. Utilities used by Progent's consultants include Cacti, Nagios, Paessler Router Traffic Grapher, Cisco Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager, Cisco Monitor Manager, Cisco Network Assistant, CiscoWorks, Cisco Security Manager, OpenView, Concord E-Health, Adventnet Netflow, Big Brother, Solarwinds Orion, and Necordia NetMRI.
Network management platforms can allow IT administrators to understand current network usage and intelligently prepare for future capacity increases. Network management utilities can also be used to detect poor or inappropriate utilization of system resources, for example streaming multimedia, peer-to-peer file sharing, etc. that can use up valuable or scarce network resources. A carefully planned network management plan can also aid businesses to arrive at intelligent decisions on wide and local area network enhancements after they recognize how much network bandwidth actually needed at specific times.
Putting an effective network management system in place ahead of time is essential to avoid major disruptions that can be due to DoS attacks and dangerous viruses. These events can leave the network unstable and without appropriate tools it can be time consuming, if not practically impossible, to find the location of the trouble.
Network Management Products from Cisco
Cisco has created a variety of powerful tools that should form the foundation for any management solution. Used in combination with appropriate third-party products, Cisco's network management offerings can enhance the business value of networks for organizations of all sizes by improving important areas such as system utilization, performance, availability, security, troubleshooting, and capacity planning. Cisco's top network management tools include:
Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM) is a web utility that allows you to set up and operate the software on network appliances. Adaptive Security Device Manager is loaded by the Cisco device, and enables you to configure, monitor, and control the device.
Monitor Manager is a comprehensive management application designed to meet the requirements of small and medium-sized organizations. Monitor Manager actively checks key appliance parameters on voice/data networks used by five to 250 workers and equipped with as many as 250 Voice over IP phones. Cisco Monitor Manager offers:
- Up-to-date scanning of key device parameters on Cisco SMB-class routers, switches, and voice gateways, Unified Communications Manager Express, Unity Express, security devices, WAPs, and Cisco Unified IP Phones
- Compatibility with the Unified Communications 500 Series communications appliance for businesses with as many as 50 workers
- Network discovery and physical topology
- Physical and service level looks at Cisco Unified Communications implementation
- Networkwide device identification collection and documentation
- Advanced security and dependable operation
- Cisco device operations tracking
- IP Telephony monitoring
- Interface status and traffic monitoring
- Immediate alarms and notifications
- Documentation
- Setup archive
Cisco Network Assistant is a desktop-based network management application designed for for LANs and WLANS for growing businesses with up to 40 Cisco switches and routers. By utilizing Smartports, Cisco Network Assistant simplifies setup, installation, and ongoing administration and support of Cisco-based networks. It provides a centralized system view and allows network managers to deploy its features across Cisco switches, routers, and access points.
Cisco Security Manager is a highly functional but simple to operate application for managing all facets of device configuration and policies for Cisco PIX and ASA security appliances, VPNs, and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS). The solution effectively handles even small networks with fewer than ten appliances, but also scales to manage enterprise networks with thousands of routers, switches, and firewalls. Scalability is achieved through smart policy-based management procedures that can simplify administration. Key features of Security Manager are:
- Supports control of Cisco router platforms running a Cisco IOS security image, ASA 5500 adaptive security appliances, Cisco PIX security appliances, IPS 4200 family sensors, and Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series security modules
- Respond more quickly to threats: define and apply updated policies to thousands of appliances in a few easy steps
- Rich GUI offers superior ease-of-use
- Multiple views that provide flexible ways to manage appliances and policies such as the ability to manage the security environment graphically on a system topology map
- Comprehensive video training for the new operator to reduce training time
- Centrally specify which policies are shared and inherited by new appliances to ensure corporate policies are implemented regularly, while providing optional flexibility to modify policies at the local appliance level
- Capability to create a single firewall rule database for all Cisco firewalls with smart analysis of firewall policies to determine conflicts within the rule base
- Easily set up site-to-site, hub-spoke, full-mesh IPsec, or extranet Virtual Private Network interfaces with a few mouse clicks
- Compatibility with Cisco ACS for low-level role based connection control to devices and administration functions
- Integration with security MARS to correlate monitored data with related security appliance rules to enable quicker management decisions and enhanced system up time
- Ability to assign specific tasks to each administrator in the course of the implementation of a rule, with structured change management and tracking; permits the security and systems operations team to act in sync as a single group with efficient coordination
Progent's Cisco-Certified network consultants can show you how to utilize Cisco's network management tools in combination with an array of powerful third-party applications to create a complete network management strategy to keep your network functioning smoothly, conserve expensive resources, guard your information, recover rapidly from hardware breakdowns or deliberates assaults, and allow you to expand or repurpose system hardware effectively and economically as your business grows.
Progent can also assist you to utilize network management tools to analyze and classify system data to implement traffic shaping, which allows you to program routers to enforce a variety of bandwidth constraints on designated types of processes according to the priorities you specify. By buffering and sorting data packets above your contracted rates, and by assigning priority to the most important applications, traffic shaping can keep service provider overage penalties from spiraling out of control and/or eliminate lost worker productivity caused by indiscriminate enforcement of your network bandwidth limits during peak demand.
Progent's CISA and ISSAP security professionals can assist you to develop an end-to-end security strategy that encompasses your network management solution, and Progent's remote and on-premises network specialists and Cisco CCIE and CNA qualified consultants can utilize the latest network monitoring and analysis technology to isolate and remediate trouble rapidly to keep your IT system productive.
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- Data Center Optimization Expertise for Internet Service Providers
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