Plan, Deploy, and Manage Application Acceleration with Greater Confidence
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Demand for application acceleration continues to be fueled by data center consolidations, new application rollouts, and pressure to maintain IT service levels for an increasingly dispersed workforce. Proving the performance of acceleration technologies and maintaining application delivery after optimization are critical to success, yet IT organizations continue to rely on fault-based tools and techniques that cannot measure the performance impact of new initiatives or pinpoint causes of degraded performance.
Cisco and NetQoS partnered to deliver the visibility and control you need to optimize business-critical applications for performance. The NetQoS Performance Center provides the most comprehensive performance monitoring solution available for next-generation Cisco WAN/Application Optimization technologies, including the Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module.
NetQoS empowers IT professionals to overcome the challenges that can arise with application acceleration. NetQoS provides the comprehensive performance analysis and role-based management views needed to do this:
- Justify investments in new content delivery hardware and other data center systems.
- Accurately size and configure new IT deployments.
- Verify the impact of each deployment on application performance.
- Troubleshoot performance issues in complex, multi-tier environments.
Make the Right IT Investments
NetQoS SuperAgent®, the application response-time monitoring module of the NetQoS Performance Center®, shows detailed performance histories by network, server, TCP/IP application, and data center tier. You will know precisely which components to upgrade before you invest.
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NetQoS SuperAgent response-time reports show how a load-balanced server
farm upgrade improves application performance. |
SuperAgent provides detailed performance, session, and data volume histories for each server and application tier to guide system sizing and eliminate guesswork about data center upgrades. The module also provides detailed views of physical and virtual system performance before and after changes in the data center. By drilling into engineering views that show key performance metrics for each key system and application, you can compare response times of different virtual and physical servers, gain insight into performance trends, and prove the results of each new data center investment.
Troubleshoot Data Center Problems Faster
SuperAgent goes far beyond basic fault management and packet-sniffer techniques. It shows the true historical performance of physical and virtual systems and the multi-tier TCP/IP applications they support.
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NetQoS SuperAgent performance maps compare transaction times during a phased
upgrade to pinpoint load balancer, server, and application issues. |
When conventional troubleshooting processes fail, you can rely on SuperAgent engineering reports – showing response-time, session, and data volume histories of virtual and physical server components – to quickly pinpoint the cause of performance issues.
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NetQoS SuperAgent engineering reports provide detailed session and data volume histories
and help troubleshoot data center issues in ways that packet sniffers cannot.. |
Identify Trends and Optimize Performance
NetQoS NetVoyant®, the SNMP device performance module of the NetQoS Performance Center, provides comprehensive diagnostic reports and service-level metrics to help you identify trends and optimize data center performance. NetVoyant also reports detailed Cisco ACE health statistics, utilization trends, layer 4 and 7 connection diagnostics, error analysis, and availability metrics to give you real-time and historical visibility.
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NetQoS NetVoyant provides comprehensive ACE performance metrics, including health statistics
and trends, layer 4 and 7 connection diagnostics, and detailed error reports. |
NetVoyant capacity planning reports help you plan device and network upgrades, identify resources with the fastest growth, and pinpoint systems with characteristics approaching defined thresholds. Management reports give you comprehensive survey views of data center device performance using scorecards and summaries by device.
You can verify compliance with service level agreements and track metrics with unexpected values, see operations-level views of devices on the network, and highlight unavailable devices and the interfaces that are most utilized alongside events and alarms.
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NetQoS NetVoyant capacity planning reports show current and projected server health and
let you drill down into performance details for individual devices. |
NetVoyant’s intuitive interface with easily customized reports helps you to compare similar devices and groups of devices and then drill into performance details to quickly isolate data center issues before they can impact productivity.
Improve Staff Efficiency
The NetQoS Performance Center is a customizable portal that delivers role-based information to help improve end-user service, optimize the infrastructure, understand the impact of change, and contain costs.
The NetQoS Performance Center provides tailored views of performance data. Individuals with different job roles can see just the information they need to solve problems faster. Focused, application-by-application views help you maintain familiar visibility and control after data center upgrades and consolidation. You will know the precise impact of each initiative.
From this intuitive, Web-based management console, you can access top-down views of all applications—data, video, and voice—for your entire Cisco infrastructure.
You can also drill into detailed information provided by each NetQoS product module:
- NetQoS SuperAgent® for end-to-end, pre- and post-deployment performance monitoring in Cisco WAAS and ACE optimized environments.
- NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer™ for enterprise-wide IOS® NetFlow traffic analysis.
- NetQoS NetVoyant® for SNMP reporting and Cisco IP SLA, CBQoS, and NBAR performance management.
- NetQoS® VoIP Monitor for call quality of experience in Cisco Unified Communications deployments.
- NetQoS GigaStor® for long-term packet capture and expert analysis of all network traffic.
With the NetQoS Performance Center, make more informed decisions based on the most comprehensive metrics available for your Cisco infrastructure. Improve staff efficiency and collaboration by using a single tool to resolve performance issues rapidly. The NetQoS Performance Center helps you mitigate risks from infrastructure changes such as VoIP deployments, MPLS migrations, QoS policy implementations, data center migrations, and application roll outs.
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