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Gigamon Visibility Fabric Enabling Software-defined
VisibilityThe GigaVUE Visibility Fabric delivers pervasive and
Active Visibility across enterprise, data center, and service
provider environments to enable security, network, and application
performance analytics and management.
GigaVUE-FM delivers a single pane-of-glass view of all the
physical and virtual nodes across the Visibility Fabric, while also
providing an easy-to-use wizard-based approach for configuring
patented Flow Mapping and GigaSMART traffic policies.
The summarized and customizable dashboard allows operators to
view and pro-actively identify hot spots with quick-access
capabilities to node status, events, port, and traffic usage
exceptions. This information can also be exported as HTML or PDF
reports for offline review.
With increasing demands for agility and automation in the IT
infrastructure and with ever-changing threat patterns in the
network traffic, there is a critical need to automatically detect,
react, and respond to these threats while also integrating
visibility into IT operations management.
GigaVUE-FM also enables Software-defined Visibility by
supporting programmable interfaces using REST APIs to provision and
orchestrate the Visibility Fabric. These APIs can be used by
traffic monitoring tools (security, NPM, APM), IT operations
management, and SDN controllers to:
Program the traffic policies, to enable closed loop monitoring
by responding to new threat patterns, for example, decrypt SSL,
generate NetFlow or even drop traffic in inline mode if malware is
detected
Discover and collect inventory information of the Visibility
Fabric to be used for capacity planning or CMDB (Configuration
Management Database) analysis
Update traffic flows in the Visibility Fabric based on network
traffic re-direction
A single instance of GigaVUE-FM can manage hundreds of
visibility nodes across multiple locations, containing more than a
quarter of a million physical ports in addition to managing VMware
virtual infrastructures.
Features & Benefits Centralized Management and
ControlProvides centralized management, monitoring, and
configuration of the physical and virtual traffic
policies for the Visibility Fabric allowing administrators to
map and direct network traffic to the Tools and Analytics
infrastructure
Programmable APIs for Software-defined VisibilityRESTful APIs
that can be used by the traffic monitoring or IT operations
management tools to discover the Visibility Fabric nodes for
inventory and status collection
Program the Visibility Fabric traffic policies when security
threats are detected
Fabric-Wide ReportingSummarized and customizable dashboards for
inventory, node/cluster status, events, audit trail, and
Top-N/Bottom-N port/map usage with options to export and schedule
HTML/PDF reports for offline viewing
Quick Specs Centralized control and management for the Gigamon
Visibility Fabric
Single pane-of-glass view across both physical and virtual
deployments
Software-defined visibility using REST APIs
Product Brief
GigaVUE-FM
Product Brief: GigaVUE-FM
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Advanced MonitoringPro-actively monitor and troubleshoot hot
spots in your Visibility Fabric:
Top-N, Bottom-N network/tool port and map usage widgets in the
dashboard
Historical trend analysis (1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month) for
port and traffic policies
Quick views for easy access to Visibility Fabric details (node,
port, traffic policies)
Global search across the Visibility Fabric for quick access to
monitoring hot spots
Audit trail of user operations for enterprise security
compliancy
Scheduling CapabilitiesInitiates version updates to one or many
fabric nodes to streamline software rollouts in an automated
fashion
Backup and Restore CapabilitiesSupports configuration backup and
restore across multiple visibility nodes to quickly back-out
changes if required due to errors or change control
requirements
Improved Operational EfficienciesMinimizes resources required to
configure, manage, and monitor multiple visibility nodes
Create/Update/Delete port properties including port-type, admin
state, speed, etc.
Create/Update/Delete traffic maps and GigaSMART operations
Use Cases Centralized Operations Center Administration team
looking to configure, direct and control traffic from a distributed
network to the
relevant monitoring and analysis tools
Network security team that is chartered with detecting,
reacting, and responding to emerging threats based on packet- or
flow-based traffic analysis
Agile and automated software defined data centers (SDDC) that
want to monitor and secure virtual workload traffic
IT operations team that is chartered with automated
inventory/change management and capacity planning
IT organizations where management Audit and Security compliancy
is a must-have
Network Operators tasked to monitor and troubleshoot traffic hot
spots in the Visibility Fabric
