Overview

Network-based MPLS VPNs are quickly becoming the industry standard for remote office connectivity. Manageability of the VPN infrastructure is challenging because of limited standardization and complexity of these new technologies. The Network VPN Manager solution enables enterprises and service providers to automatically discover and manage the performance and reliability of site-to-site Layer 3 VPN tunnels. Proactive notification of potential problems assures corrective actions can be taken before critical services and customers are impacted. The Network VPN Manager solution dynamically discovers physical and logical connectivity and verifies availability through VRF ping heartbeat monitoring.

VRF Trace Configuration allows for the discovery of LSP Paths through the MPLS network from each site to its peer. Users have on-demand access to LSP Path information with simple clicks from a VPN Topology Map. SPECTRUM® automatically polls path information to alert based on significant or persistent patch change activity. SPECTRUM also logs and maintains a history of site-to-site LSP paths to help users identify changes that affect server delivery. It all adds up to a cost-effective way to provide integrated fault and performance management of your VPN infrastructure.

VPN Topology and Path History

Features

• Service Level Management
  

• Root Cause and Impact Analysis
  

• Auto Discovery
  

• VPN Topology
  

• VRF Ping and VRF Path Tracing

Advantages

• Technology Relationship Mapping
  

• Real-time service views
  

• Proactive communication with VPN equipment that supports RFC 2547 BGP/MPLS VPN MIB with private vendor extensions
  

• Out-of-the-box performance view details individual tunnel and aggregate VPN statistics
  

• Fast, accurate modeling of physical and logical VPN connectivity
  

• Provide users with a detailed view of the network topology and hop-by-hop LSP Path trace information

Benefits

• Understand the relationships and impact of the VPN infrastructure on business services
  

• Verify and validate SLAs
  

• Dramatically reduce mean time to repair (MTTR) and cost of downtime
  

• Ensure service quality and reliability
  

• End-to-end visibility and capacity planning for VPN infrastructure needs