Cisco Prime Nam Appliances - Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Configuration Manual

Cisco Prime NAM Appliances

so that the failure or slowdown of a server is managed much more quickly and with less disruption to clients.
The feature set can be broadly categorized as consisting of switching features, security and protection features,
and server-farm optimization features.
The Cisco Nexus Series switches are used purely as a 1 and 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch, consolidating 10
Gigabit Ethernet connections into a smaller number of server connections trunked to the aggregation layers.
These switches are designed for deployment in the core, aggregation, or access layers of a high performance,
hierarchical data center network topology.
The Cisco Nexus Series switches run on the Cisco NX-OS software. This software fulfills the routing, switching,
and storage networking requirements of data centers and provides an Extensible Markup Language (XML)
interface and a command-line interface (CLI) that is similar to Cisco IOS software. As a crucial element in
data center I/O consolidation, the switch enables I/O consolidation at the access layer and provides
interoperability with the Cisco Nexus Series switches and other standards-based products.
Cisco Prime NAM Appliances
Cisco Prime NAM Appliances are purpose-built devices that uniquely combine application visibility and
network performance analytics to help accelerate operational decisions. They help you understand who is
using the network, know what applications are running on the network, assess how the applications are
performing, and characterize how traffic over the network is being used. And, when there is a problem, Cisco
Prime NAM Appliances can help you find it fast, reducing the time it takes to resolve the problem from days
to just minutes.
RISE Functionality
All features in this section function with IPv4.
Note
This section includes the following topics:
Discovery and Bootstrap
The discovery and bootstrap functionality enables the Cisco Nexus Series switches to communicate with the
appliance by exchanging information to set up the Remote Integrated Service Engine (RISE) channel, which
transmits control and data packets. Auto-discovery is supported only when you directly connect the service
appliance with the Cisco Nexus switch. Once you configure the RISE control channel on the switch, the
connected service appliance is set to RISE mode and all of its ports are set to operational mode by default.
In indirect mode (when the appliance is either Layer 2 or Layer 3 adjacent to the switch), you must manually
configure the appliance and the Cisco Nexus switches to establish the control channel connectivity and for
discovery and bootstrap to occur.
For more information about connection modes, see the "Preparing for RISE Integration" chapter. For
configuration information, see the "Configuring RISE" chapter.
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Cisco RISE Integration Overview