Cisco Cloud and Systems Management - Prime Network

1. Introduction
Product Overview
Networks are becoming ever more complex in the era of virtualization, consisting of both physical and virtual infrastructures. Service providers are faced with the task of realigning network and data center operations with the corresponding operations support systems (OSSs) to build a more profitable operational model. Today’s disjointed management systems, however, make it difficult to achieve this.
Cisco Prime™ Network addresses this challenge by providing a single solution for device operation and fault management—supporting both the traditional physical network components, as well as compute, and the virtual elements—Cisco Prime Network helps service providers better meet the requirements of delivering carrier-class services. (Refer to Figure 1.)

Features
● Comprehensive, graphical views of the entire network from topology down to the device level with centralized inventory, status, and fault information (refer to Figures 2 and 3)
● GUI-based device component configuration with more than 200 prebuilt and downloadable configuration plug-ins
● Automated discovery, device configuration, and change management with up-to-date displays of network events, states, and changes
● Automatic root-cause identification, alarm reduction through de-duplication, and topology-guided troubleshooting
● Optimized for multilayer, multitechnology networks and enabled for multivendor network scenarios, supporting major third-party device types and configurations

2. Device Discovery and Administration

• Autodiscover network elements and topology

• View physical containment and logical inventory

• Over 40 carrier technologies and services supported

• Status of over 1500 attributes

• Use the integrated topology and fault viewer

• Support configuration and diagnostics

• Over 200 bundled command scripts (more added through community site)

• Command script builder (model-based scripting)

• Add soft properties: extend inventory discovery

• Define additional threshold-crossing alarms

• Provide secure authentication (LDAP or local), and role-based authorization, with full security auditing

• Create inventory and top-event reports

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3. Documents

Cisco Prime Network Introduction

Cisco Prime Network Business Overview

Cisco_Prime_Network 3.9 Business Overview

Cisco Prime Network 4.1 Business Overview

Cisco Prime for IP NGN Technical Education Series Introduction to Prime Network

Cisco Prime Network 4.0 Business Overview

Cisco Prime Deep Dive

Cisco Cloud Computing - Cloupia

1. Overview

Cisco Cloupia is a centralized management solution that enables IT departments to experience the full benefits of their converged infrastructure investment by continuing to reduce TCO and save staff time with transparent unified management. When combined with the industry’s leading converged infrastructure solutions, Cisco Cloupia:

• Improves agility of IT to meet growth and business initiatives

• Lowers cost per user without sacrificing scalability

• Reduces the need for specialized operation skills and processes and decreases costs

• Delivers management capabilities for multitenant and secure multitenant environments to accommodate virtualized workloads running alongside non-virtualized workloads

Cisco Cloupia delivers these benefits through the features listed in Table 1.

 2. Automate Service Delivery

3. Documents

Cisco Cloupia BDM Deck

Cisco Cloupia: Orchestratie en self-service tooling Unified Data Center

Cloupia Overview

Cisco Cloud Computing - CIAC

1. Overview

• Cloud Management and Orchestration

• Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud delivers a self-service portal and orchestration engine to automate provisioning across physical and virtual resources for public, private, or hybrid cloud environments.

• Enable organizations to deliver a disciplined and structured automation solution to manage cloud environments

• Accommodate complex customer’s technical and business requirements offering end users a single interface for requesting a comprehensive array of services

• Accelerate and expand cloud adoption

• Lower cost of operating via Open Source solutions

• Standardize and simplify provisioning, configuration, troubleshooting  and lifecycle management of your cloud infrastructure

2. CIAC 4 What's new

More than 800 out of the box Services and Workflows covering basic and complex IaaS use cases
Over 500 extension points for easy customization
Deploy cloud within existing IT practices, policies and systems
Leverage pre-existing “runbooks”

• Cisco UCS Director 4.1

• Cisco Nexus 1000v

• Cisco Cloud Services Router

• Cisco ASA 1000v

• Cisco Virtual Security Gateway

• Cisco Prime Network Services Controller

• Cisco Prime IPAM

• Citrix Netscaler VPX

• OpenStack

• VMware vCloud Director

• Amazon AWS

3. Architecture

• IAC Base
• Cisco Prime Service Catalog (Installation or Appliance)
• Cisco Process Orchestrator
• Compute Virtualization
• VMware vCenter
• VMware vCloud Director
• OpenStack
• Cisco UCS Director
• Networking Virtualization Services
• Cisco IAC Management Appliance
• Cisco Prime Network Services Controller
• Bare Metal Provisioning
• Cisco Server Provisioner (Bare Metal and Virtual)

4. Documents


Cisco’s Cloud Solutions with CIAC 4 Deep Dive