While ping and SNMP protocols will continue to provide a strong foundation for high-performance network monitoring, network management tools must now monitor and collect data from software-defined networking (SDN) platforms, such as Cisco ACI. Statseeker NPM integrates seamlessly with ACI deployed networks, collecting both health and configuration data, and from that data, builds reports, populates dashboards and generates alerts.
By default, your ACI platform will update its health metrics for display every 5 minutes, and store that data for 2 weeks before culling it from your data history. Statseeker NPM offers significant improvements to the default ACI platform capabilities, Statseeker NPM:
Statseeker NPM’s ACI solution can be used to review historical ACI health and fault data, allowing you detect patterns and trends which present themselves over time, rather than simply responding issues as they arise. In addition, you can combine that information with SNMP data collected from the hardware supporting your environment. With this knowledge you are able to identify the root cause of many issues encountered in SDN environments, address those issues, effectively implement service improvements, and plan for expansion.
