Chapter 5 Summary of Software Applications Features
External Software Applications
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Routed WAN Management Solution
Routed WAN Management Solution provides wide-area network monitoring,
troubleshooting, traffic management, access control, and applications to
administer the routed infrastructure of multiservice and VPN routing platforms
built with Cisco products.
Table 5-12
summarizes the applications included in the
Routed WAN Management Solution.
Table 5-12 Applications Included in CiscoWorks2000 Routed WAN Management Solution
Application
Key Function
Key Benefits
Access Control List (ACL)
Manager
ACL optimization
Improves router performance by
organizing ACL filters to sort by
most frequent usage patterns
ACL profiles
Allows administrators to quickly
and uniformly apply and update
policy-based ACLs, reducing
WAN costs and enhancing security
management
ACL distribution
Allows administrators to automate
the updating of ACL information in
multiple devices
Internetwork Performance
Monitor (IPM)
Monitoring of WAN response
time characteristics
Determines the responsiveness of
WAN connections to find
bottlenecks; provides real-time
analysis of end-to-end hop delays
TrafficDirector
Remote Monitoring
(RMON/RMON2) statistics
collection from Cisco devices
and probes
Monitors and troubleshoots LAN
traffic at the physical, protocol,
and application layers
Setup of traffic-related
thresholds and monitoring of
historical traffic patterns
Implements a proactive monitoring
system to inform administrators of
unusual traffic characteristics