Overview

The WX Central Management System (CMS) software offers a powerful, intuitive solution for centrally managing, monitoring, and configuring WX and WXC application acceleration platforms distributed throughout an enterprise.

The WX CMS software provides unprecedented visibility into how applications are performing over the WAN, offering detailed information about traffic patterns, bandwidth consumption, and other performance trends that IT can use to maximize WAN resources.

The monitoring software also helps IT learn how users and applications are interacting over the WAN, reporting on bandwidth consumption, top talkers, and how Quality of Service (QoS) policies are impacting overall application throughput. Armed with this insight, IT can quickly pinpoint trouble spots, determine whether the WAN is at fault, and drill down to identify and resolve problems.

WX CMS software also provides visibility into each element of the WX Framework. With WX CMS software, IT can manage additional WAN capacity created by Molecular Sequence Reduction (MSR) and Network Sequence Caching technologies, see the impact that Packet Flow Acceleration (PFA) and Application Flow Acceleration (AppFlow) technologies have on application performance, allocate bandwidth and prioritize applications through QoS, and direct applications over multiple WAN links with the Policy-Based Multipath feature.

Benefits

WX Central Management System (CMS) software provides the following benefits for any deployment of multiple WX and WXC application acceleration platforms:

Provides multi-level visibility into WAN applications and performance

WX CMS software provides IT a complete view into what is happening on their WAN links. Executive Summary reports provide an at-a-glance view of key traffic, performance, and reduction results. A customizable "My WAN" portal allows IT staff to create customized views into the performance metrics of devices and sites they want to focus on - including application mix, bandwidth consumption, and application performance - to enable quick problem diagnosis and troubleshooting. Drill-down reports are available by site, device, and link to view details on WAN throughput, path monitoring, top talkers, and other statistics.

Centralizes and simplifies platform configuration

WX CMS software represents a single point from which to manage as many as 2,000 WX and WXC platforms. IT can leverage WX CMS software to schedule key upgrade and management tasks as well as to perform updates such as rolling out new WX and WXC software revisions to all devices at once.

Provides global policies and monitoring

WX CMS software allows network managers to centrally manage and modify global configuration settings on all WX and WXC platforms. IT can also monitor all WX and WXC platforms, with status reports providing at-a-glance summaries of device health, configuration status, and compression and acceleration statistics.

Automates deployment and license management

Using WX CMS software, IT can automate configuration of remote WX and WXC platforms, greatly simplifying the set up of tens or hundreds of distributed platforms. IT can also use WX CMS software to automate license management, simplifying the administration of a large WX and WXC deployment.

Reports

The WX Central Management System (CMS) software for the WX and WXC application acceleration platforms provide a number of tools and reports, including:

WAN Reports

• Throughput - by application, destination, and timeframe
• Application Summary - by destination and timeframe
• Performance - link latency, loss, and availability

Executive Report

• One page, at a glance summary:
  • Reduction
  • Reduction by Application
  • Application Summary
  • Daily Volume by Application
  • Average WAN Performance

Reduction Reports

• Throughput - by application, destination, and timeframe
• Data Reduction - by application, destination, and timeframe
• Application Summary - by destination and timeframe
• Passthrough Statistics - by timeframe
• Packet Distribution - by timeframe

Acceleration Reports

• Active Flow Pipelining Throughput and Acceleration - by application, destination, and timeframe
• Fast Connection Setup Acceleration - by destination and timeframe
• Forward Error Correction Statistics - by timeframe
• Exchange Acceleration - total time for sends/receives and all transactions, with and without acceleration
• CIFS Acceleration - total time for reads/writes and all transactions, with and without acceleration
• HTTP Acceleration - total time for all transactions, with and without acceleration

Top Talker Reports

• Top Flows - by device, application, traffic type, and timeframe
• Top Sending Addresses - by device, traffic type, and timeframe
• Top Sending Ports/Applications - by device, traffic type, and timeframe
• Top Receiving Addresses - by device, traffic type, and timeframe
• Top Receiving Ports/Applications - by device, traffic type, and timeframe

QoS Reports

• Outbound Bandwidth - by application, destination, and timeframe
• Inbound Bandwidth - by application, destination, and timeframe

Multipath Reports

• Loss and Latency - by destination and timeframe
• Traffic Diversion to Alternate Path - by destination and timeframe

SNMP and NetFlow Support

• Interoperates with any SNMP NMS system or tool
  • Supports MIB2 and private enterprise MIB
  • Extensive alert and alarm traps
• Data can be exported to any Cisco NetFlow collector

Troubleshooting

• Secure packet capture
  • For both WAN and LAN side
  • Password-controlled access
• Remote ping and traceroute
• Device and tunnel status and connectivity

Compatibility

Juniper Networks WX Central Management System software for the WX application acceleration platforms runs on Microsoft Windows 2000 and 2003 servers and can be accessed securely from any compatible browser connection via HTTPS. The WX CMS software supports multiple versions of the WX and WXC system software, and IT can use WX CMS software to manage a heterogeneous mix of WX and WXC platforms.

Datasheet

• WX Central Management System (CMS) Software245 KB