Did you got any materials. I am looking for some details about cisco - microsoft integration.

Jaison

My client has transitioned from eval to production user. It turned out to be much simpler than I first thought. The setup is a two-tier/two-context web server farm. All is working well. There is a lot to learning the “subtlties” of health probes, but ACE is an interesting animal.

Regards,

SecurityDude

Part of what spawned this post was the number of Avaya customers that have been purchasing our tools. A couple of things come to mind in terms of looking at why someone might look at Network Instruments in addition to the Avaya tools:

Integrated VoIP and Network Monitoring
Given VoIP’s sensitivity to interruptions from other applications, it’s important to have a complete view of all network traffic. Network Instruments solutions provide that complete view of all applications flowing across your entire network. So, from your web browser you could monitor VoIP, see MOS is decreasing, and immediately identify whether an unexpected bandwidth spike from another application caused the problem.

Handling Higher Network Speeds
Wireshark is a solid solution, but it does have limitations for larger organizations monitoring larger full-duplex gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks. This is a part of what I meant by each product has its markets. Your network environment may dictate the monitoring solutions you use.

Post-Event Capture vs. Rewinding the Network
One of the newest developments in network troubleshooting has been the ability to store terabytes of network-level data for later replay and analysis called retrospective network analysis (RNA). Rather than having to wait for the problem to recur, network engineers can rewind the network and replay the event. In the same way that TiVo changed the way we watch TV, GigaStor and similar RNA products are changing troubleshooting. When time to resolution is critical, RNA offers significant time savings over traditional analysis tools by eliminating problem recreation.

Drilling Into Packets
Although Avaya offerings allow you to monitor statistics such as round-trip-delay, deviance-buffers (jitter), perceived link quality (MOS Score), among others, how do you proceed to troubleshooting when you do spot a potential performance problem? With Network Instruments solutions you can easily drill from a high-level statistical view down to the packet level for quick diagnosis. So upon seeing any type of call quality issues, you could immediately dive into the packets. You can also use experts to graphically view the network conversations to identify latency, see packets traveling across multiple network segments, replay the VoIP call, etc.

Reporting and Data Mining
Network Instruments reports can be viewed either from the console or web browser. VoIP statistics can be tracked on an aggregated or per-call basis. Data mining and drill down is seamless because it’s the same product. So there isn’t any use of an outside database or toggling between different tools. Not to mention hoping that the data same data captured/monitored by one solution was seen by the other.