Cisco Partner and SolarWinds Team Up for SBA Win
Cisco’s Smart Business Architecture (SBA) initiative is an end-to-end, customer-driven solution covering Cisco's Borderless Networks, Virtualization, and Collaboration technologies. Cisco Eco-Partners, like SolarWinds, who brings network management functionality to SBA, and Cisco Channel Partners have worked to bring customers this easy-to-deploy solution. Now, SolarWinds and IOSecure are talking with Cisco about their success with SBA.
Listen to SolarWinds, Cisco, and IOSecure talk about their success with SBA
Let SolarWinds manage your Cisco Smart Business Architecture network throughout its lifecycle. From day one, you’ll be able to quickly configure your Cisco network devices, including uploading the latest IOS® versions, modifying and tracking configuration files, and executing specific scripts. Our Orion family offers out-of-the-box, network-centric views that are designed to deliver the critical information network engineers need most. And Orion is the easiest product of its kind to install, use, and maintain, so engineers spend more time focused on the network and not on their management software. Get started by downloading the Smart Business Architecture Network Management Deployment Guide.
Network Management Deployment Summary
SolarWinds Orion product family includes several easy-to-use solutions to help you manage your Cisco SBA Network.
Step 1: Configure Your Cisco SBA Network
Orion Network Configuration Manager (NCM) simplifies the setup and ongoing management of your Cisco network with a highly intuitive web interface that offers point-and-click simplicity and easy access to configuration data. Plus, Orion NCM continuously monitors device configurations and provides immediate notification of configuration changes to help you resolve problems before they impact users.
With Orion NCM, you can quickly fix issues without having to manually Telnet or SSH into devices to change configuration parameters. Orion NCM also makes it easy to generate and analyze compliance reports to confirm that your devices are meeting regulatory and corporate standards.
Step 2: Monitor Your Cisco SBA Network
Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) provides comprehensive performance monitoring, fault management and network availability tools to ensure that your Cisco SBA network is always running at peak performance. Via a cutting-edge, customizable web interface, Orion NPM gives you a unified view into the performance of thousands of nodes and interfaces on your network, all from a single web page, where you can drill down into any element to see exactly what's happening.
Step 3: Optimize the performance of your Cisco SBA Network
Need monitoring and management that adapts to the needs of your ever-changing network environment? Choose from modules to extend Orion NPM’s capabilities to VoIP infrastructure, NetFlow traffic analysis, applications and server monitoring, and IP address management. Each module shares Orion NPM’s ease of use and deployment, as well as the award-winning Orion interface.
- Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer - Capture NetFlow data from continuous streams of network traffic to identify how your bandwidth is being used.
- Orion Application Performance Monitor - Monitor applications and servers to quickly identify and resolve issues with business-critical applications.
- Orion IP Address Manager - Ditch your spreadsheets for an easy-to-use, centralized IP address management solution that doesn’t break the bank.
- Orion VoIP Monitor - Proactively analyze VoIP quality across WAN links, as well as monitor the underlying systems and protocols that the VoIP environment relies upon.
SolarWinds products are used by more than one million network engineers to manage IT environments ranging from ten to tens of thousands of network devices. Comprised of fault and performance management products, configuration and compliance products, and tools for engineers, the SolarWinds product family is trusted by organizations around the globe to design, build, maintain, and troubleshoot complex network environments.