Network path analysis
OpManager can map out your WAN nodes one by one with packet loss and response time statistics for each node using network path analysis profiles. Not only will you be alerted for network congestion, but you can track down the exact node that is causing slowness. For network issues outside your corporate network, you no longer have to search in the dark or blame your ISP.
IP SLA monitoring
OpManager can leverage Cisco's IP SLA technology to synthesize VoIP and WAN traffic between devices. OpManager then monitors critical metrics. Instead of waiting for your clients to experience VoIP and WAN issues, you can detect them proactively and take action.
WAN infrastructure monitoring
OpManager monitors health and performance of WAN infrastructure devices like firewalls, WAN accelerators, and edge routers. OpManager can monitor the CPU, memory, traffic utilization, and hardware health with alerts so that you'll know of any abnormal events that can disrupt your WAN traffic.
Advanced packet analysis
Gain better insights and visibility into your SD-WAN performance and perform deep packet inspection (DPI). Using the NetFlow and Packet Analysis (DPI) modules in OpManager, you can diagnose your traffic utilization, monitor top-talkers, perform traffic shaping, get application- and interface-level packet statistics, etc.
Root cause analysis
Root cause analysis profiles allow you to stack performance metrics side by side to correlate collected data. When your SD-WAN is facing issues, you can compare and correlate metrics from the devices you suspect and track down the root cause instantly.
What are the perks of monitoring your SD-WAN with OpManager?
Since most WANs vary in terms of infrastructure used and performance requirements, WAN monitoring tools must also be able to adapt to diverse implementations. OpManager features a set of advanced monitoring capabilities that aids IT teams to complement SD-WAN monitoring and optimize performance.
Monitor distributed sites: Its imperative to monitor the different data centers and distributed sites that are associated with your WAN to get proper end-to-end visibility. OpManager's probe-central architecture allows IT teams to monitor multiple locations from a central network operations center. Combined with SD-WAN monitoring, this gives you a holistic view into your IT infrastructure.
Dedicated WAN reports: Reports on your WAN infrastructure and performance is beneficial in measuring performance and planning for the future. OpManager has a range of default reports on WAN path availability, threshold violation, top N reports, history reports, and so on. You can craft custom reports as well to get periodic insights into your WAN implementations.
Multi-vendor support: OpManager supports popular vendors like Cisco, VMware, and Palo Alto with default device templates. Once discovery is completed, OpManager detects the device type and vendor to automatically assign relevant performance monitors to newly discovered devices. OpManager has over 11,500 default device templates and advanced automation and scheduling features.
Data center visualization: OpManager has advanced network visualization features to help map out your network resources. To visualize and monitor the data centers that are part of your SD-WAN infrastructure, you can generate server rack views, data center floor views, network topology maps, and business views.
Cisco ACI SDN monitoring
Cisco application-centric infrastructure (ACI) is Cisco's software-defined networking (SDN) offering that uses software-based network virtualization to optimize network performance. A typical Cisco ACI installation consists of one or more application policy infrastructure controllers (APICs), which manage network devices, a series of leaf and spine switches, as well as tenant groups and endpoint devices.
OpManager can discover and monitor these components to give you a complete overview of your Cisco ACI network.
SDN network overview: OpManager lists a detailed overview of the Cisco ACI network with packet loss and response times of the controller, the number of active users in the SDN, and the health scores. You can drill down into the associated fabric switches, tenants, and endpoint groups to get detailed oversight of your Cisco ACI performance.
Leaf and spine switch monitoring: You can monitor each network component in the Cisco ACI, including leaf switches, spine switches, and super-spine switches. You can monitor them from the controller itself with metrics like health score and node ID, or perform advanced switch monitoring with CPU, memory, and traffic monitoring.
Monitoring tenants and endpoint groups: OpManager monitors the health score of the tenants associated with your Cisco ACI and lists the application profiles, VRFs, bridge domains, and the end-point groups in tenant groups. You can also discover and monitor each of the end-point devices with OpManager individually or as part of the Cisco ACI.
Mapping Cisco ACI topology: You can also map the topology of your logical network infrastructure to get visibility into their dependencies and monitor them holistically. A Cisco ACI topology map depicts leaf, spine, and super-spine switches with their logical connections and availability status.
Learn more about Cisco ACI monitoring.
Cisco Meraki SD-WAN monitoring
Cisco Meraki is Cisco's wireless and WAN virtualization technology that allows IT teams to manage access points, firewalls, cameras, switches, and gateway devices from distributed networks from a single Cisco Meraki controller.
OpManager offers comprehensive Cisco Meraki SD-WAN monitoring, you can discover and monitor each component in your distributed networks, including Meraki Security, Meraki Switches, Meraki Radios, Meraki Vision, and Meraki Gateways as well as the network performance for each distributed site.
You can monitor Cisco Meraki SD-WAN with metrics like:
- Traffic usage.
- Number of devices.
- Number of clients.
- Rogue devices.
- Availability and response time.
OpManager also provides complete visibility into Meraki networks with insights into each network, the devices managed in those networks, rogue devices trying to access the network, and the clients. Read more about Cisco Meraki monitoring.
