Product Brief

GigaVUE-FM
Gigamon Visibility Fabric Enabling
Software-defined Visibility
The 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.

Quick Specs
Centralized control and
management for the Gigamon
Visibility Fabric

Single pane-of-glass view across both

physical and virtual deployments

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.

Software-defined visibility using

REST APIs

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

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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

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