Cisco Prime Infrastructure

Overview

IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights analyzes data and learns the normal behavior of a system through KPI metric data streams. This includes data from various sources including metrics gathered by industry performance and network monitoring solutions. A mediation pack helps users quickly integrate the KPI data streams by providing a default model to integrate a particular performance manager.

IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights Mediation Pack for Cisco Prime Infrastructure provides a pre-built model for data ingestion. Predictive Insights creates a performance model that it uses to detect or forecast behavior outside the modeled range, including generating an alarm when an anomalous behavior occurs. Doing so enables organizations to pro-actively avoid system and solution outages before users are impacted.

Cisco Prime Infrastructure provides APIs which are utilized to retrieve the metric data. A java client is employed to call the various APIs and format the metric data into the corresponding CSV files. The Mediation Pack for Cisco Prime Infrastructure provides metric data in CSV format for which the Mediation Pack will use to formulate content into Predictive Insights.

Sample Dashboard

The following is a sample Predictive Insights dashboard reflecting the KPI metric stream processed by the Mediation Pack for Cisco Prime Infrastructure.

Additional information

Reference the Mediation Pack User’s Guide for deploying and configuring the mediation pack, along with the metrics handled by the pack.

Cisco Prime Infrastructure must be configured for metric historical data collection for every 5 minute intervals.

You can download the mediation pack from the IBM Passport Advantage system (CNL2XEN).

Training Information

Review the following video for information on using and setting up the Mediation Pack.
Training and overview presentation used in the training video.

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