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Juniper Networks WX Central Management System (CMS)

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    • Provides visibility into WAN applications and performance and simplifies problem resolution
    • Centralizes and simplifies configuration and content distribution
    • Provides global policies and monitoring
    • Automates deployment and license management
 

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 error conditions or other problems, determine whether the WAN is at fault, and drill down to identify and resolve problems.
 

Specifications

Juniper Networks WX Central Management System software for the WX and WXC application acceleration platforms runs on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Service Packet 1 or Windows Server 2000, Service Pack 4 and can be accessed securely from any compatible browser connection via HTTPS. The WX CMS software supports multiple versions of the WX and WXC operating system (WXOS) software, and IT can use WX CMS software to manage a heterogeneous mix of WX and WXC platforms.


Requirements and Scalability
Platform Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2000, Service Pack 4 (cannot be a Domain Controller)
Web browser IE 6.0 or later
Number of simultaneous users 50
Number of platforms 2,000
Supported devices # Devices Pentium 4 CPU (GHz) RAM Disk Space (GB)
Under 100 2.0+ 768 MB 40+
100-500 2.8+ 1.5 GB 60+
501-1,000 3.0+ 2.0 GB 80+
1,001-1,500 3.2+ 3.0 GB 100+
1,501-2,000 3.2+ dual CPU 4.0 GB 120+
 

Benefits

The 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

Offering 36 distinct reports, the WX CMS software provides IT with a complete view into what is happening on their WAN links. Support for role-based views enables IT to offer segmented views into WX CMS reports for different types of users.


Supports global policies and monitoring

WX CMS software allows network managers to centrally manage and modify global configuration settings on all WX and WXC platforms deployed within the network. 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.

Enables granular user access control

WX CMS administrators can provide tiered access privileges and granular access control to WX CMS reports and device configuration functions. The WX CMS software allows devices to be segmented into multiple groups for access control and reporting purposes. Support for customizable user roles enable IT to define what management functions users have access to, which configurations they can view, and which devices they can access. A set of predefined user roles can be applied, or new user roles can be created and customized as needed.

The WX CMS software also supports the Microsoft Active Directory Schema for remote authentication and authorization. Leveraging this feature allows IT to ensure that authorizations in Active Directory/LDAP are used to enforce tiered access to WX CMS functionalities.

Centralizes and simplifies platform configuration

The WX CMS software provides a single point for managing up to 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. Device configuration publishing gives IT access control over distinct WX and WXC device configurations by allowing IT to create a device configuration and publish that configuration to a single or multiple user groups.

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 large WX and WXC deployment administration.

Automates critical provisioning, management and notification functions

The WX CMS software enables large pervasive deployments of the WX and WXC devices by automating certain management tasks that can be scheduled for a single WX/WXC platform or an entire community or device group. Additionally, all 36 reports available through the WX CMS software can be scheduled for delivery via e-mail as a PDF, either immediately to a predefined set of users or at a specified time on a recurring basis. Similarly, an e-mail gateway enables IT to configure the WX CMS software to automatically and immediately notify users of new events or error conditions for rapid follow-up and resolution.

Simplifies multi-customer management

Using Network Address Translation (NAT), managed service providers (MSPs) can easily manage multiple customers using a single WX CMS platform to contain the costs of providing that service and continue to offer high-margin, high-value services to their customers. NAT support allows the service provider to manage WX and WXC devices in a customer's private IP address space while maintaining the WX CMS management platform in their own management network. Using NAT, even though there may be overlapping IP address spaces in these customer networks, each customer network can still be managed as a discrete unit.


 

Reports

The WX Central Management System (CMS) software for the WX and WXC application acceleration platforms provides thirty-six reports, viewable as PDFs or with the existing interactive browser-based display. Report categories include:

  • WAN Reports
  • Executive Reports
  • Reduction Reports
  • Acceleration Reports
  • Top Talker Reports
  • QoS Reports
  • Multipath Reports
  • Trend Reports
  • SNMP and NetFlow Support
  • Troubleshooting

 

Demos

Product Demos

WX Framework Application Control Technologies

In wide-area networks that connect branch offices to the data center, all data traffic competes for the same limited bandwidth. That's not always good for business, especially if slow, low-priority traffic delays time-sensitive, mission-critical transactions.

This three-minute demo explores how the WX Framework's Application Control techniques — specifically Quality of Service (QoS) and Policy-based Multipath capabilities — help businesses properly allocate WAN resources to maintain service levels and ensure that sufficient resources are always available for high-priority business applications. See the demo now


WX Framework Acceleration Technologies

The WX Framework defines the attributes required of a true WAN acceleration and optimization solution, based on four specific categories: compression and caching; acceleration; application control; and visibility.

This demo describes the acceleration capabilities enabled by the WX Framework and integrated into the Juniper WX and WXC application acceleration platforms. The demo covers both Packet Flow Acceleration, which improves the performance of TCP-based applications throughout the extended enterprise; and Application Flow Acceleration, which speeds response times for specific applications — namely Microsoft Exchange, Windows files services, and web-based applications — whose performance is constrained by the performance limitations and latency imposed by their underlying Layer 7 protocols. See the demo now


WX CMS Software Demo

The Juniper WAN application acceleration (WX/WXC) platforms are equipped with powerful visibility and reporting tools that provide insight into WAN and application performance. WebView allows per-device management, while the WX Central Management System (CMS) software provides easy-to-use and extensive central configuration, monitoring, and management capabilities for up to 2,000 geographically dispersed WX and WXC platforms.

This demo highlights the main features and functionalities of the WX CMS software, including the “My WAN” portal, monitoring and reporting, device and configuration management, auto-deployment and license management, and role-based administration. See the demo


Solution Demos

Juniper Networks Application Acceleration Solutions

To keep pace in today's competitive business climate, companies must streamline their business operations to increase productivity and reduce costs. Server centralization and data center consolidation initiatives help, but trends like globalization and expansion conflict with these initiatives and threaten to undermine their benefits.

This four-minute demo describes how the Juniper Networks application acceleration solutions embrace these trends and help businesses achieve their strategic IT objectives while reducing costs, improving application performance, and maximizing existing network investments. See the demo now


Juniper Networks Branch Office Demo

Branch offices are a critical component of today's enterprises. By some accounts, between 80% and 90% of employees are located in branch or regional offices. The result of all the latest trends is the need for a new branch office solution - one that meets branch office security, connectivity, and performance challenges and requirements. Take a look at this demo to the see the latest branch office trends and challenges, what the requirements are for building an ideal branch office solution as well as the Juniper Networks security, networking, and application acceleration branch office solutions that will meet your needs. See the demo


 

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