Fabric Controller Centralized Manager
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Introduction
To cope with skyrocketing traffic volume and escalating security threats, today’s networks employ sophisticated, pervasive monitoring capabilities. The resulting architecture incorporates hundreds – of taps and bypasses, data monitoring switches, and Network Packet Brokers (NPB), all integrated into a Monitoring Access Platform (MAP) within the network infrastructure. But along with the vital advantages of this architecture, there is challenge of managing these devices for configuration, monitoring, bulk software upgrades, and more.
Keysight’s Ixia Fabric Controller (IFC) Centralized Manager is delivering the right high-performance and efficiency features. IFC Centralized Manager also offers High Availability (HA) for robust, comprehensive management capabilities and lets you manage a wide deployment of wired, wireless, and/or virtual devices. This versatile platform allows growing networks to expand their management and planned capabilities to keep pace with increasing needs as devices are added. IFC Centralized Manager eases configuration and monitoring of taps, virtual taps, data monitoring switches, and network packet brokers – turning them all into fully orchestrated and coordinated monitoring resources.
Highlights
• Centralized manager to offer single pane of glass for large numbers of managed devices through auto discovery
• Innovative topology visualization with node grouping, interconnect links, and size, color, width all proportional to the actual # of nodes in group, alarms in each group, and physical bandwidth of the link
• Single Sign On (SSO) and zero touch provisioning for discovered Keysight Vision Packet Broker devices
• Physical or virtual implementation: support for VMware and KVM
• High Availability (HA) with floating IP between active and standby units
• Active/standby can be cross-form configuration: physical-physical, virtual-physical, and physical- virtual
• Northbound Interface to support fault management with another Network Management Solutions
• Device configuration and management
• Alarms and events management
• Audit trail
• Scheduler to support software upgrade, script/policy execution, and configuration import/export across many devices
• Event triggered response to execute custom scripts
• At-a-glance dashboard views
• Snapshot and historical data views
• Trap and email forwarding
• Business logic alerts
• Monitors traffic levels and quality across the network
• Expanded RADIUS, TACACS+ and LDAP authentication
IFC Central Manager Offers a Single Pane of Glass for Visibility Management
IFC Centralized Manager is delivered either as a physical appliance or as a virtual appliance in VMware or Oracle Virtual Box format. Deployment is amazingly simple too, thanks to a fast, fully automated discovery process that can quickly identify all supported Keysight Vision products, Keysight iTap/iBypass/xStream/ Vision family of products. IFC Centralized Manager also checks continuously for devices being removed or taken offline. It also checks periodically for devices newly added. A dynamic network topology map instantly shows the ‘up’ or ‘down’ status of all supported devices, in addition to custom status, based on active alarms (Minor, Major, Critical, SNMP error). Click on a device object/icon to drill down into detailed device status and configuration information, as well as the status of attached links.