Network Management
Network Services & Management
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Cisco Prime Network Registrar
Cisco Prime Network Registrar automates common tasks such as IP address assignment and management, DHCP and client policy definition and distribution, and day-to-day server maintenance to simplify and streamline IP network configuration and administration. Features such as the LDAP directory interface facilitate integration of DNS and DHCP services with other network management and client-provisioning or service-provisioning applications. Performance-optimized functions provide fast setup and task execution, and an availability-tuned architecture helps ensure reliable and consistent client services delivery.A DNS caching server supports DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) and is designed to prevent cache poisoning and other attacks. Cisco Prime Network Registrar’s rich and extensible features distinguish the application suite from other DHCP and DNS servers and IP address management (IPAM) applications available in the market today.
XDE is a graphical scripting language for orchestrating complex, expertise-rich network management tasks. It consists of:
1. a runtime engine for embedding into existing systems e.g. an NMS or blade
2. the XDE SDK for creating orchestration procedures and device interaction packages
The XDE SDK is a plug-in for Eclipse that provides a complete development environment for building flowchart and device interaction packages. These packages can communicate with (potentially live) networks, automating tasks that are typically done interactively today.
Cisco Prime Network
As Enterprises are faced with the challenge of delivering applications and services in complex IT environments, Cisco NAM provides comprehensive network and application visibility to reduce management complexity, optimize usage of network resources and improve application performance
Service providers are launching managed services to SMBs and enterprise customers to offer Managed CPE, Managed Voice, and Managed Mobility services. To this end, the SP seeks to partner with organizations that can address the CPE and associated services. The goal of this solution is to architect, engineer, and deliver a managed services platform leveraging best of breed Cisco and partner product.
CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (CiscoWorks LMS) is a suite of integrated applications for simplifying day-to-day management of a Cisco end-to-end network, lowering operating expenditures while increasing network availability. CiscoWorks LMS provides network managers with an easy-to-use web-based user interface for configuring, administering, monitoring and troubleshooting the network, saving time in configuring new services and reducing the time required to quickly isolate and fix network problems.
IBM Tivoli Netcool for Cisco Prime
Cisco Info Center, based on Tivoli Netcool, is a carrier-class service and business assurance system that collects and consolidates events and alarms from a wide variety of networking environments in real-time.
Netcool/OMNIbus is at the core of the Cisco Info Center suite of software, a carrier-class service and business assurance system. The Netcool/OMNIbus application focuses primarily on fault and event management. It collects and consolidates events and alarms from a wide variety of networking environments in real-time. These environments include servers, mainframes, Windows systems, UNIX applications, circuit switches, voice switches, IP routers, SNMP devices, network management applications and frameworks, among many others. Netcool/OMNIbus can also consolidate information from different domain-limited network management platforms in remote locations.
Cisco® Broadband Access Center (BAC) is a distributed and highly scalable application allowing for automated flow-through provisioning of subscriber services and management of subscriber devices. Cisco BAC provides a centralized and automated platform for service providers to control and configure residential home gateways and the IP devices behind the gateways.
Cisco Prime Provisioning (formerly ISC and also previously known as Cisco Prime Fulfillment)
The Cisco Prime Provisioning application program interface (API) allows you to use operations support system (OSS) client programs to connect to the Cisco Prime Provisioning system. The Cisco Prime Provisioning APIs provide a mechanism for inserting, retrieving, updating, and removing data from Cisco Prime Provisioning servers using an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) interface request/response system. The Cisco Prime Provisioning API optionally uses Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS) for message encryption, and Cisco role-based access control (RBAC) for user authentication.
Cisco Transport Manager intelligently supports configuration, fault, performance, and security management functional areas and serves as a foundation for integration into a larger, overall operations support system (OSS) environment. CTM manages the latest versions of the Cisco ONS family of network elements along with MGX Voice Gateway.
The Cisco Access Registrar application programming interface enables application developers or customers to build and plug-in their own custom logic using extension points. Cisco AR provides several extension points in various stages of packet processing which allows the application developer to customize packet processing logic depends on their need based on the incoming/outgoing radius attributes values.