Huawei esight Brief Product Brochure

Huawei esight Brief Product Brochure

esight Integrated Enterprise NMS As the network scales and the number of enterprise network applications continue to grow, so does the number of devices, such as multi-service routers, gateways, and WLAN Access Points (APs), which enable communication and collaboration in decentralized networks like enterprise campus networks and branch office networks. An increasing number of core and access devices from multiple vendors are used in the enterprise, each with its own management system, creating a nightmare for the system and network administrators. Product Overview Huawei esight is a next-generation comprehensive and integrated IP+IT network operation and maintenance (O&M) system developed to manage enterprise resources, services, and users in compliance with Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standards. User Service Resource Ziyi James Elle Ann Amy ShangHai ShangHai ShangHai Juile Rom ShenZhen ShenZhen New York Joe So New York Jon Video conference Internet Mail Mail Server AR Server ShenZhen Machine Room ShangHai Machine Room New York Machine Room Product Characteristics Any Customer Multi-edition for any customer Customer Vendor Any Vendor Open platform for any vendor Policy esight Device Any Policy Intelligent center for any policy Service Any Device Flexible mechanism for any device Any Service Simplified visualization of any service 01 Huawei esight Brief Product Brochure

esight reduces IT device investment and maintenance costs and improves O&M efficiency. esight works with: Any vendor Preset multi-vendor IP device management capabilities: esight can manage not only Huawei devices but also other vendor equipment, including Cisco and HP devices. Open platform: Customers and administrators can customize information about their managed devices. Any device esight delivers unified management of routers, switches, WLAN, firewall, and other network devices. esight can monitor multiple IT devices including servers, printers, and workstations. esight can monitor any device that supports the SNMP protocol. Any service esight simplifies O&M by providing multiple views, including MPLS, IPSec, WLAN RF, and more that allow visual management of network services. esight SLA Manager ensures that users of enterprise IT applications enjoy good experiences by combining network quality metrics to display the network quality in real time. esight Network Traffic Analyzer visualizes network traffic to help realize fine-grained management of enterprise bandwidth. esight integrates the management of wired and wireless networks. esight provides end-to-end monitoring and fault diagnosis for VPN services. esight displays the topology of virtual resources and physical devices on the entire network, detects virtual machine (VM) changes, and adjusts the physical network policies of VMs accordingly. Any policy esight safeguards enterprise network security by supporting batch policy control on network layer devices. Any customer esight satisfies a range of customer demands and reduces O&M costs with multiple editions and modular components. The hierarchical network management model is suitable for O&M in enterprises with a headquartersplus-branches structure. Features and Benefits Lightweight system: esight uses browser/server (B/S) architecture and can run on portable computers, enabling users to access the network and check the network status anytime, anywhere. Multiple editions: esight provides four editions express, compact, standard, and professional to meet the management and business requirements of any type of enterprise. Comprehensive device management: esight provides unified management for IP and IT devices, and also virtual devices and physical devices. It can manage both Huawei and third-party devices and allows users to customize device management, which greatly reduces initial investment cost. Unified O&M experience: Based on the unified network management platform, esight manages wired and wireless networks uniformly, provides a complete O&M solution, and supports intelligent linkage between functional components, delivering unified O&M experience and reducing training costs for O&M personnel. Integration of industry best practices: Based on industry best practices, esight provides network quality evaluation, fast fault diagnosis, and detailed fault rectification suggestions, helping users to quickly diagnose faults and simplify the required skill for maintenance personnel. Huawei esight Brief Product Brochure 02

Visualized management: esight displays services and traffic in graphs and provides topology views, showing network status and quality from different dimensions and in different modes. Intelligent diagnosis policies: esight provides various diagnosis functions, such as VPN fault diagnosis, WLAN fault diagnosis, and SLA quick diagnosis, helping users to check network quality and restore services quickly. Product Components esight provides a unified O&M platform as well as specific components to meet the demands of enterprise customers. Component esight Unified Network Management Platform esight Smart Reporter esight SLA Manager esight WLAN Manager esight Network Traffic Analyzer esight MPLS VPN Manager esight MPLS Tunnel Manager esight QoS Manager esight DC ncenter Description Provides various editions (compact, standard, and professional) for enterprises. In addition to uniform management of devices from various vendors, topology management, fault management, performance management, smart configuration tool, and configuration file management, esight Unified Network Management Platform allows users to customize management of third-party devices, helping users to establish a network management system catering for their own needs. Provides preset report templates to meet requirements in most maintenance scenarios. Provides the professional report design tool for users to customize statistics reports. Integrates with devices' network quality analysis (NQA) function to diagnose and measure the link performance between network devices 24/7 hours and displays quality of service (QoS) statistics. Administrators can set the QoS threshold. esight notifies administrators remotely when QoS reaches the threshold. Administrators can use the quick diagnosis function to monitor link performance in real time and diagnose faults, which improves maintenance efficiency. Integrates the management of wired and wireless networks, and enables service deployment in batches, service adjustment, troubleshooting, and routine maintenance. Collects traffic of routers and Layer 3 switches, analyzes network traffic based on the NetFlow, NetStream, and sflow protocols, and allows users to customize reports. This helps network administrators to monitor the traffic and bandwidth usage and detect network bottlenecks in a timely manner, providing evidence for network planning and fault diagnosis. Works with the MPLS function of routers and switches to provide visible end-to-end MPLS management of services and diagnosis of faults. Automatically discovers the MPLS TE tunnels (RSVP-TE signaling-based dynamic tunnels and CR-Static signaling-based static tunnels) and LDP tunnels that have been deployed on the network, monitors the tunnels in real time, displays tunnel running status dynamically, and monitors active-standby switchovers and bypasses. Monitors network QoS in real time. Provides multi-dimensional data analysis and displays QoS information in graphs and dashboards, simplifying network management. Integrates with the smart configuration tool, performance monitoring, Network Traffic Analyzer, and SLA Manager on esight Unified Network Management Platform, providing all-round functions of QoS configuration, monitoring, and optimization. Monitors network resources (including physical servers, VMs, vswitches, and TOR switches), displays the topology of virtual resources and physical devices, and dynamically adjusts physical network policies based on VM changes. 03 Huawei esight Brief Product Brochure

Typical Application Enterprise Campus Networks Typical Network esight Standard Edition WLAN Manager Network Traffic Analyzer SLA Manager Video service Voice service Access switch Aggregation switch Egress router Terminal-to-terminal SLA monitoring Outgoing traffic monitoring WAN AP AC Campus network Protected resources esight Campus Network Integrated Management Solution Integrated management of wired and wireless networks: esight's open platform supports IP devices from Cisco, HP and other vendors, and provides unified management of campus devices such as switches, routers, WLAN devices, and firewalls. Visualized quality management: SLA Manager can be used with the NQA function of network devices to help evaluate packet loss ratio, delay, and jitter. This realizes timely fault diagnosis and provides a good user experience in enterprise campus networks. Visible traffic management: Fine-grained traffic management at the campus egress allows allocation of sufficient bandwidth for audio, video, and Internet services. Network Description Characteristics of enterprise campus networks: A campus network includes enterprise resources such as network equipment, employees, and core business data. An increasing number of enterprises deploy wireless devices on their networks. Enterprises need an O&M system for unified management of wired and wireless networks and an intelligent authentication system to protect their core assets. esight solution: The integrated esight management solution manages both wired and wireless devices, displays traffic and QoS statistics, protects core enterprise assets, and improves operation and maintenance efficiency. The esight standard edition, WLAN Manager, SLA Manager, and Network Traffic Analyzer are recommended for a campus network. The deployment provides these functions: 1. esight standard edition implements unified management of switches, routers, firewalls, and servers across the entire network. esight provides comprehensive network resource management interfaces to improve O&M efficiency and reduce management costs. The intelligent report system summarizes terminal, resource, and service statistics for the whole network, giving IT managers and enterprise executives in-depth information about the enterprise network. 2. WLAN Manager integrates the management of wired and wireless networks. It provides GUIs for WLAN network management, RF information management, and end-to-end fault diagnosis. 3. The SLA Manager conducts end-to-end network quality testing, evaluation, and diagnosis to help quickly detect network problems on the enterprise network. 4. Network Traffic Analyzer monitors network traffic at the campus egress. It employs refined management to ensure proper use of network resources and provide traffic data that can be used to plan bandwidth expansion or traffic policy optimization on a campus network or an MPLS network leased from a carrier. Huawei esight Brief Product Brochure 04

Networks of Enterprise Branches Typical Network Terminal-to-terminal SLA monitoring Outgoing traffic monitoring E2E MPLS VPN management esight Standard Edition SLA Manager Network Traffic Analyzer MPLS VPN Manager Video service Proxy service Voice service Branch 1 Access switch Branch 2 Egress router WAN Headquarters Data center esight Enterprise Branch Networks Visible Management Solution: Visualized device management: esight GUIs display switches, routers, printers and other devices in a branch in topologies, allowing administrators to view network fault information in real time. Visualized traffic management: Network Traffic Analyzer (NTA) provides refined management of branch network traffic and displays the Top N applications and hosts that consume the highest traffic volume to help enterprises view traffic, locate faults, and plan applications on branch networks. Visualized quality management: SLA Manager can be used with the NQA function of network devices to help evaluate packet loss ratio, delay, and jitter. This realizes timely fault diagnosis and provides a good user experience in enterprise branches. Visualized service management: MPLS VPN Manager visualizes the MPLS service SLA and allows for oneclick fault diagnosis of services, devices, and ports to facilitate enterprise network O&M. Network Description Characteristics of branch networks: Enterprises usually have a large campus network and multiple branches. Enterprise applications are deployed on branch networks and these applications require access to data from enterprise branches in other locations. In order to isolate enterprise services, MPLS service is often deployed on the enterprise network. How to manage these cross-regional branch networks and how to make these networks better serve enterprise applications and promote enterprise services have become new challenge. esight solution: esight provides enterprise customers with a multi-branch visible network management solution that allows enterprise customers to view the network, devices, quality, traffic, and services. This simplifies O&M and helps employees enjoy high quality online experiences. 1. The esight standard edition with the SLA Manager, the Network Traffic Analyzer, and the MPLS VPN Manager is recommended for use on enterprise branch networks. esight standard edition provides a lightweight web-based management system to implement easy, unified management of branches. 2. SLA Manager conducts end-to-end network quality testing, evaluation, and diagnosis to help quickly detect network problems on branches. 3. NTA monitors network traffic at the branch network egress. It employs refined management to ensure proper use of network resources and provide traffic data that can be used to plan bandwidth expansion or traffic policy optimization on enterprise branch networks. 4. MPLS VPN Manager connects all enterprise branches to realize visible management of the entire enterprise network. The end-to-end MPLS service view and SLA testing of MPLS services guarantee the operation of key services. It realizes one-click fault diagnosis of services, devices, and ports to facilitate network O&M. 05 Huawei esight Brief Product Brochure

Networks of Data Center Typical Network esight Professional Network Network Policy migration DC ncenter SLA Manager Network Traffic Analyzer VM VM VM migration VM VM Hypervlsor Hypervlsor esight Data Center Automatic Management Scheme Visualized management of physical and virtual resources: esight DC ncenter displays the connection and running status of devices in real time, including the subordinate and connection relationship between physical TOR switches, physical servers, vswitches, and VMs. Automatic migration of the data center network: DC ncenter detects VM changes (for example, a VM goes online, goes offline, or is migrated) through vcenter, and synchronizes virtual network configurations to the physical network by changing network configurations between source and destination TOR switches. Automatic assessment of data center KQIs: esight monitors data center interface traffic and conducts SLA analysis for key services. This helps users to detect faults in advance and quickly diagnose faults, ensuring the QoS of the data center. Network Description Characteristics of data center networks: The VM technology is widely used in data centers to reduce the number of required servers and enhance service reliability. A data center needs to manage not only the physical network but also the virtual network. How to ensure service continuity during VM migration is a difficulty in data center management. The esight professional edition, SLA Manager, Network Traffic Analyzer, and DC ncenter are recommended for a data center network. The deployment provides these functions: 1. The esight professional edition uniformly manages data center resources. 2. SLA Manager checks network QoS in E2E mode, displays network QoS statistics, and diagnoses faults by link. This helps to locate and rectify faults on a data center network in a timely manner. 3. Network Traffic Analyzer monitors network application traffic at the data center egress and provides refined management to ensure proper utilization of enterprise network resources. This also provides the basis for enterprise network expansion and traffic policy optimization. 4. DC ncenter uniformly monitors network resources (including physical servers, VMs, vswitches, and TOR switches), displays the topology of virtual resources and physical devices, and dynamically adjusts physical network policies based on VM changes. More Information http://enterprise.huawei.com/ Huawei esight Brief Product Brochure 06

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