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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 Control—Provides 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 Visibility—RESTful 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 Reporting—Summarized 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 ü Centralized control and management for the Gigamon Visibility Fabric

ü Single pane-of-glass view across both physical and virtual deployments

ü Software-defined visibility using REST APIs

Product Brief

GigaVUE-FM

Product Brief: GigaVUE-FM

2008-06 04/15

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• Advanced Monitoring—Pro-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 Capabilities—Initiates version updates to one or many fabric nodes to streamline software rollouts in an automated fashion

• Backup and Restore Capabilities—Supports configuration backup and restore across multiple visibility nodes to quickly back-out changes if required due to errors or change control requirements

• Improved Operational Efficiencies—Minimizes 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