Cisco Certified Network Consultants
Cisco Network Management Solutions
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A wealth of network management products from Cisco and third-party suppliers highlights the value and complexity of network management. Progent's Cisco-certified network management consultants are experienced at assisting businesses develop network management strategies based on SNMP, SYSLOG services, and Cisco IOS NetFlow to build powerful mechanisms for tracking network bandwidth usage and network latency, monitoring important router and switch performance characteristics, and recognizing traffic patterns, processes, and devices utilizing available resources.
Progent can assist businesses to utilize a rich range of open source and license-based monitoring and management products to manage a Cisco network. Tools used by Progent's engineers include MRTG, Cacti, Nagios, PRTG, Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM), Cisco Monitor Manager, Cisco Network Assistant, CiscoWorks, Cisco Security Manager, OpenView, AlterPoint DeviceAuthority, Advent and Firewall Analyzer, Solarwinds Orion, and Necordia NetMRI.
Network management tools can help organizations to understand existing system utilization and intelligently prepare for downstream capacity expansion. Management tools can also be used to detect poor or inappropriate utilization of network resources, such as streaming video, peer-to-peer sharing, etc. that can use up valuable or limited network resources. A well planned network management strategy can also help companies to make intelligent decisions on WAN and LAN improvements once they understand how much system bandwidth historically required at any one time.
Putting an effective network management solution in operation ahead of time is critical to prevent major problems that can be due to DoS attacks and dangerous viruses. These assaults can leave the network unusable and in the absence of proper utilities it can be time consuming, and in some cases virtually impossible, to discover the location of the trouble.
Network Management Tools from Cisco
Cisco has developed a variety of effective tools that should be the foundation for any network management strategy. Utilized in combination with the top outside vendor applications, Cisco's network management offerings can improve the competitive value of networks for companies of all sizes by improving important areas such as system utilization, performance, availability, protection, repair, and scalability. Cisco's top network management tools include:
Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager is a web utility that allows you to configure and monitor the software on network appliances. Cisco ASDM is installed by the network device, and allows you to configure, monitor, and control the device.
Monitor Manager is a comprehensive management application designed to address the requirements of small and midsize companies. Cisco Monitor Manager actively monitors important device parameters on voice/data environments serving 5 to 250 workers and equipped with as many as 250 Voice over IP phones. The application offers:
- Real-time scanning of key appliance parameters on small and midsize business-class network appliances, Communications Manager Express, Unity Express, security devices, WAPs, and VoIP phones
- Ability to manage the Cisco Unified Communications 500 for organizations with as many as 50 users
- Network discovery and topology
- Device and process looks at Unified Communications implementation
- System wide inventory logging and documentation
- Advanced security and reliable communication
- Cisco device performance monitoring
- IP Telephony monitoring
- Connection status and traffic monitoring
- Immediate alarms and notices
- Reports
- Setup archive
Network Assistant is a desktop-based network management tool designed for for LANs and WLANS for expanding organizations that have up to 40 Cisco switches and routers. By running Cisco's Smartports mechanism, Network Assistant streamlines configuration, deployment, and ongoing administration and support of Cisco-powered environments. Network Assistant provides a centralized network view and allows network administrators to deploy its functions across switches, routers, and wireless access points.
Cisco Security Manager is a feature-rich but easy-to-use application for managing all aspects of device configuration and security policies for firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs), and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS). Security Manager efficiently manages even small environments with no more than than ten devices, but also expands to manage enterprise systems composed of thousands of devices. Scalability is enabled through intelligent policy-driven management techniques that can streamline administration. Highlights of Security Manager are:
- Supports provisioning for Cisco routers running a Cisco IOS security image, ASA 5500 firewalls, Cisco PIX security appliances, IPS 4200 family sensors, and Catalyst 6500 family security services modules
- Reacts more quickly to attacks: specify and apply new security policies to many hundreds of appliances in a few easy steps
- Intuitive graphical user interface offers exceptional ease-of-use
- Multiple looks that offer flexible methods to control devices and policies including the capability to manage the security environment visually on a topology image
- Comprehensive video training for the new user to accelerate training period
- Centrally specify which policies are shared and automatically inherited by additional appliances to make sure corporate policies are configured regularly, at the same time providing optional flexibility to modify policies at the local appliance level
- Capability to build a common firewall rule database for Cisco platforms with intelligent evaluation of firewall policies to detect conflicts in the rule table
- Easily configure site-to-site, hub-and-spoke, full mesh, or extranet Virtual Private Network links by means of a VPN wizard
- Integration with Cisco Access Control Server (ACS) for low-level role based connection control to appliances and management functions
- Integration with Cisco security MARS to compare events against corresponding security appliance rules to promote quicker management decisions and enhanced system availability
- Ability to assign particular jobs to every administrator in the course of the implementation of a policy, with structured change control and tracking; permits the security and network operations team to act in sync as a single group with efficient teamwork
Progent's Cisco-Premier network management consultants can show you how to utilize Cisco's management utilities alongside a selection of powerful third-party applications to create a comprehensive network management toolkit to keep your network operating smoothly, consolidate expensive resources, protect your information, recover quickly from equipment failure or deliberates attacks, and enable you to expand or repurpose system resources effectively and affordably as your company grows.
Progent can also assist you to use network management applications to monitor and categorize system data to implement traffic shaping, which permits you to configure Cisco routers to impose different throughput constraints on certain classes of processes based on the priorities you assign. By buffering and queuing data packets that exceed your committed rates, and by assigning priority to critical processes, traffic shaping can prevent ISP excess usage penalties from spinning out of control and/or avoid lost worker productivity caused by indiscriminate enforcement of your network bandwidth limits during periods of heavy demand.
Progent's CISM and CISSP security consultants can assist you to develop a comprehensive security strategy that encompasses your network management processes, and Progent's remote and in person support specialists and Cisco CCIE-certified consultants can utilize advanced network management tools to identify and remediate trouble quickly to keep your IT system productive.
For more details concerning Progent's professional help for Cisco networking products, pick a topic:
- Introduction to Cisco Network Support
- Fast and Affordable Online Support from a Cisco CCIE Consultant
- Cisco Firepower Series Firewalls: Integration and Troubleshooting Support
- Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower Services: Consulting and Management Services
- ASA 5500 Series Firewall Troubleshooting Assistance
- PIX Series Firewall Troubleshooting Help
- Cisco Routers Consulting Expertise
- Cisco Wireless Network Design Help
- Cisco Aironet Wireless Access Points Design Help
- Cisco Small Business 100, 300 and 500 WiFi Access Points Deployment Services
- Cisco Wireless Controllers Integration Consulting
- Meraki Wireless Access Points Design Services
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM) and CallManager Consulting and Troubleshooting
- Cisco Voice over IP (VoIP) Phones and IP Video Desktop Phones Consulting Services and Cisco Wireless VoIP Phone Solutions
- Cisco Jabber Configuration and Troubleshooting Expertise
- Cisco Catalyst Switches Deployment Services
- Cisco Nexus Switches Deployment Services
- Cisco Meraki Switches Deployment Expertise
- Cisco VPN Engineering Services
- SIP and CUBE Integration Solutions: SIP Trunking and CUBE Integration Consulting
- Design and Support for Cisco-powered Datacenters and Colocation Centers
- Infrastructure Optimization Consulting for Service Providers
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CCDP Certified ASA 5500-X Firewall Information Technology Consulting
Engineer Cisco ASA Firewall integration
The latest generation of ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services deliver substantially more performance than Cisco's earlier PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX security appliances for new deployments. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network consultants can help you to manage your legacy PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls and upgrade efficiently to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent can also help your company to plan, deploy, tune, administer and debug firewall solutions built around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services.
Consulting Services ProSight Email Security Gateway
Immediate ProSight Email Zero Hour Protection Professional
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the services and infrastructure of leading data security vendors to provide centralized management and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's ProSight Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall.
SQL Server 2016 and Excel Support
SQL Server 2016 Backup Encryption Online Support Services
SQL Server 2016 introduces major improvements in performance, scale, security, high-availability, BOYD support, and built-in BI. New features include PolyBase for processing SQL and NoSQ files simultaneously for big data applications, Hadoop support, Dynamic Data Masking, Mobile Report Publisher, and centralized control over local and cloud-resident resources. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can provide online and on-premises support to assist businesses of all sizes to configure, manage or debug any edition of SQL Server 2016. Progent can also assist you to interface SQL Server 2016 with other core Microsoft platforms such as Windows Server and Hyper-V, Exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and GP, Skype for Business, and SCOM.
Aironet Ruggedized APs Computer Consultant
Emergency CCDP Certified Aironet 802.11ax Wireless IT Consultants
Progent's Cisco-certified wireless consultants can help organizations of any size to plan, implement, manage and troubleshoot Cisco Aironet Wi-Fi access point environments to provide the throughput, coverage, capacity, scale, security compliance and ease of management required for transparent connectivity between Wi-Fi and wired networks. Progent can provide affordable online and on-premises consulting services for end-of-life and current 802.11ac Aironet access points and Progent can assist your business design and maintain deployments of indoor and outdoor/industrial Aironet Wi-Fi access points.
Software Design Firms
Cisco Certified Experts VBScript programming Consulting Services
If you need assistance creating, improving, or repairing business aplications for Windows, Linux, or the Web, Progent’s team of program developers, relational database architects, and software project managers can help make sure you get the project completed on schedule and within budget. Progent's seasoned application programmers can provide cost-effective and efficient remote help for jobs as small as creating VBA macros for Excel or as challenging as developing line-of-business database applications based on Microsoft SQL Server or MySQL.
Small Business Outsourcing IT Cisco Switch
Cisco Planning Small Business Network Consulting Group
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified network infrastructure experts have extensive background assisting Internet Service Providers to design, deploy, manage, tune, and troubleshoot fault-tolerant, extensible network environments suitable for public networks.
Mid-sized Company Information Technology Manager
Computer Network Specialist Midsize Business
Progent offers IT services for medium size businesses who have 100 to 250 network clients. The medium size business or work group has typically been an underserved segment of the market for network support services. The cost structures and service access models of large outside support firms make them excessively costly for the ordinary small business or small medium business (SMB), which usually relies on a minimal IT budget with which to support an information system whose advanced technology and sophistication are often similar to the information systems of much bigger enterprises. Progent's service delivery model, which takes great advantage of online service, virtual office infrastructure and proactive network monitoring, significantly reduces the network maintenance expenses of a small-medium business while offering the small organization with big-company support from certified, IT consultants with background in a broad range of midsized business technologies. If your mid-sized organization or small business is searching for the quality of IT help needed by a mid-size organization without paying enterprise prices, call Progent.
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