Pre-Con Ed: Learn What's New in CA Spectrum®

World®
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Pre-Con Ed: Learn What's New
in CA Spectrum®
Nagesh Jaiswal, Principal Product Manager, CA Technologies
Sheenam Gupta, Principal Product Manager, CA Technologies
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Abstract
CA Spectrum® 10.x releases introduced many new features, such as 64-bit platform support,
wireless LAN controller and access point management, a Web client, bi-directional integration
with CA Unified Infrastructure Management and software defined network (SDN) support. Join
us for What's New in CA Spectrum as we take these latest innovative features and improve on
them and discuss the latest community ideas. Pre-registration strongly encouraged as space is
limited; pre-registered attendees will be admitted first.
Nagesh
Jaiswal
Principal Product
Manager
CA Technologies
Sheenam
Gupta
Principal Product
Manager
CA Technologies

Agenda
OVERVIEW
WEBCLIENT TOPOLOGY AND ENHANCEMENTS
ENHANCED JASPERSOFT REPORTING
CA UNIFIED INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT BIDIRECTIONAL INTEGRATION
CA SPECTRUM SUPPORT FOR WIRELESS CONTROLLER AND ACCESS POINTS
SUPPORT FOR CISCO ACI
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2
3
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OTHER ENHANCEMENTS7

CA Spectrum Overview

Overview
NPS Survey, Community Ideas, IT Central Feedback, 1-1 etc.

Customer Feedback
CA Spectrum is #1 for Network Troubleshooting
and Network Monitoring Software on
IT Central Station!

CA Spectrum
Operational Efficiency
Rapid Time-to-Value, Ease of Use
Expand to Newer Technologies
SDN/NFV, Cloud, SD-WAN, SDDC
Scale Improvements
Reduce TCO
VALUE DRIVERS
Role Based Views
Customizable views and management roles
Change Management
Proactive Change Management for Improved Visibility
Broad Platform Coverage
Across Physical, Virtual, Cloud Environment
High Scale
Over a million models per Spectrum Server
Service Aware Management
Track & optimize business services
Intelligent Fault Detection
Automate Device Discovery & Root Cause Analysis

CA Spectrum Web Client and Topology
Enhancements

Value Proposition
- Light weight web based client for operators
- Java independent
- Monitor, identify and triage network problem
Spectrum
server
Spectrum
server
Spectrum
server
OneClick
server
OneClick Console
WebClient

Topology View
For Landscapes, Global Collection and Global Collection Hierarchy

Edit Alarm Attributes
Alarm Attributes (In-Built and Custom) Can Be Edited

Custom Columns
Custom Columns Can Be Added Through the Settings

Custom Attributes
Custom Attributes Created Through OneClick Are Shown in Alarm Table Attribute List

Configuration for Pagination
Users Can Choose to See Alarms in Multiple Pages or Single Page

Topology View
For Landscapes, Global Collection and Global Collection Hierarchy

Overview Zoom
Shows Entire Topology in the Right Side Pane for High Level View

Marquee Zoom
Enables Narrowed Selection from the Overview Topology View

Device Search
Quick and Easy Device Search Using Device Name or IP Address

Device Status and Link Status
Fault devices shown in red color on
topology view for quick and easy
monitoring

Topology View – Device Specific Information
Alarms of selected device from
topology
Selected device from topology view

Alarms of selected device from
topology
Alarm details of selected alarm from
above table
Impact shows the symptomatic
alarms of the selected alarm from
the above alarms table

Device details of selected device on
the topology

Log Analytics
Select a Device Specific Alarm
Log Analytics

Log Analytics
Syslog Dashboard Launched in Context of the Fault Device

Log Analytics
User Can also Select an Alarm in the Alarms View and Launch Log Analytics in Context
Log Analytics

What’s Next – Under Consideration
§ Improve user interface to align it with modern UI standards
§ Add admin features to provide most often used capabilities
through Web Client
§ Leverage integrations with CA Unified Infrastructure
Management, CA Performance Management and CA Network
Flow Analysis to provide advanced insights for a device

CA Spectrum / CA Unified Infrastructure
Management Bidirectional Integration

§ Enable management of the entire IT environment through a single solution
§ CA Spectrum users get access to systems and virtual environment
information & CA UIM users get access to network device information
§ CA UIM users get RCA and alarm suppression & CA Spectrum users get
performance monitoring
Bi-Directional Integration
Value proposition
CA Spectrum
CA Unified
Infrastructure
Management
Best of both the worlds together!

Impact of Integration
CA Spectrum
Server
Web Server Farm
App Server Farm
Reporting Server
DB, LDAP
vCenter
Unified Management Portal
OneClick Client
End User
Router 1 Router 2
CA UIM Server
Application Layer
1
NOC center

Web Server Farm
App Server Farm
Reporting Server
DB, LDAP
vCenter
OneClick Client
End User
Router 1 Router 2
Application Layer
1
2
NOC center
CA Spectrum
Server
CA UIM Server

Web Server Farm
App Server Farm
Reporting Server
DB, LDAP
vCenter
OneClick Client
End User
Router 1 Router 2
Application Layer
1
2
3
NOC center
CA Spectrum
Server
CA UIM Server

Web Server Farm
App Server Farm
Reporting Server
DB, LDAP
vCenter
OneClick Client
End User
Router 1 Router 2
Application Layer
1
2
NOC center
CA Spectrum
Server
CA UIM Server

Inventory Sync
CA Unified
Infrastructure
Management
CA Spectrum
Network Infrastructure
VMwareServers
Discover Model Root Cause Analysis
Complete Infrastructure view

Alarm Sync
CA Unified Infrastructure
Management
CA Spectrum
Performance alarmsFault alarms
Real-time alarm updates sync
Alarm management

What’s Next – Under Consideration
§ Monitor cloud infrastructure through CA Spectrum in addition
to CA UIM
§ Add popular virtualization technologies in addition to VMware
§ Provide capability to monitor multi-tenant environment

CA Spectrum Support for Wireless
Controller and Access Points

Business Challenge
§ Increasing demand to monitor
mobile/wireless devices
§ Lack of a single comprehensive
interface
§ Use of multiple tools for
different monitoring needs

WiFi Management
§ Brings wireless device
management within the purview
of CA Spectrum
§ Single pane of glass
§ Vendor agnostic

The Value
Discover Manage Monitor Control

What’s Next – WiFi Management (Under Consideration)
§ More vendor coverage
§ Wireless heatmap
§ Mobile station search
§ Reporting
§ Model handle of access point
§ Access point group name
§ Total number of clients connected
§ Data sent for access point
§ Data received for access point

CA Spectrum Support for Cisco ACI

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Ensuring a Reliable Digital Experience Has Become Difficult
Dramatic Changes over the Last Few Years
2016-beyond
Before-2000
On-prem On-prem
Off-prem
Cloud
Complexity
Visibility
SDN, IoT
Today’s networks are more complex than ever
Dynamic Infrastructure
Increasingly converged, abstract and dynamic network
Cloud
Fragmented monitoring environment
Workflow Complexity
Dramatic increase in complexity of workflows
Analytics
A deluge of data demanding an agile culture
Leading Network Complexities

Cisco ACI – An Introduction
§ Policy based model and simplified automation for
data center infrastructure and deep visibility into
application flows and health
§ Enabling all of them to collaborate through a
common platform for managing physical, virtual
and cloud-based environments

CA Virtual Network Assurance v2 for Cisco ACI Monitoring
MULTI-VENDOR
SESSION BROKER
MULTI-PURPOSE
OPEN COLLECTOR
REST -Websocket
UIM Data Model
Light weight,
Universal, adaptable
to new entities
Inventory Engine
Relationship Tracking
Reconciliation
Normalizes unstructured
data from disparate sources
Policy Enforcement Driver
Pushes normalized decisions
from clients to disparate
ecosystems
Extensible Plugin
Allows for fast and
OOB certification of
new ecosystem
components
Open
Collector
Flexible,
Multi-
protocol
collector
allows for
easy
expansion
REST setup and Websocketdelivery
adapts to transient environments
CA Virtual Network Assurance
Normalized Hierarchy Context
Fabric & Faults Top N Dashboard
ANP and EPG Item Context Page
Nexus Switches Top N Dashboard
Nexus Switch Context Pages
OpenStack Workload Analysis
Auto Topology Discovery
Overlay-Underlay Fault Isolation
Consolidated Fault Collection
CA Performance
Management
CA Spectrum
CA Performance Management
CA Spectrum
CA Spectrum
CA Spectrum

Key Capabilities for CA Spectrum Cisco ACI Support
§ Discover, model and show Cisco ACI
infrastructure
§ Single console for all physical and
logical entities
§ Support alarms, traps, events, fault,
health scores
§ Root cause and fault isolation
– Pin points issues in Cisco ACI
infrastructure
– Know which tenant is affected

CA Spectrum Enhanced Jaspersoft
Reporting

Business Challenge
§ Generate a variety of informative, up-to-date
reports
§ Optimize ROI on IT capital expenditures
§ Assure the operational integrity of the IT
infrastructure

Value Proposition
§ Make informed decisions about your IT
assets
– Which assets are most problematic?
– What are the most prevalent events and
alarms?
– How many routers or other gateway
devices from a particular vendor are
deployed in the network?
– Which devices are most and least
frequently off-line?

Solution Overview
§ Out of box reports for alarms,
asset, availability, events & SLA
§ Ad hoc reports for asset, events,
alarm and availability
§ Linux OS support, CA Single Sign-
On, automated install

CA Spectrum Other Enhancements

§ Enables better communication between operations center and service desk
§ Enables real-time visibility into the current status of problem conditions
§ Supports policy-based automated alarm ticket submission
Support for 3rd Party Service Desks
CA Spectrum 10.2: Other Enhancements

§ BMC Remedy (8.1)
§ HPE Service Manager (9.32)
§ ServiceNow (Eureka, Fuji, Geneva)
§ SAP Solution Manager (7.1 SP12)
§ Salesforce Service Cloud (Winter 2015)
§ Also CA Cloud Service Management (Bamboo release)
Supported Ticketing Systems

§ Following operations will be supported
– Create incident
– Update incident
– Assign incident
– Close incident
– Unique incident creation/update for each and every alarm, based on
configured alarm types
– Creation of incidents for selected alarm types
Support for 3rd Party Service Desks Key Capabilities

§ Scale Improvement
– Improved from 1 to 2 millions models
– Further consolidate
– Lower TCO
§ Direct upgrade support from 9.2 -> 10.2
Scale and Upgrades

§ Cisco Nexus VDC
– Discover each VDC
– OC views
– RCA
§ Checkpoint Firewall
– Discovers all the virtual systems
in a VSX Gateway
– OneClick views for each VSX
interface
– RCA
Support for Network Virtualization

§ Network Configuration
Manager captures with
multiple username /
passwords, primary and
secondary communication
modes
§ Timestamps for the exceptions
seen in NCMSERV.OUT
§ OpenSSH support for Network
Configuration Manager capture
Network Configuration Manager Improvements

§ Flexibility in scheduling maintenance mode
– Flexible setup for schedules
– Example: first Monday of the month
– Support for time zones
§ CA Spectrum – CA Service Operations Insight
connector improvements
– Improved startup time
– Enhanced multi-threading
– No more missing heartbeats and re-
initializations

§ Search box for interfaces tab
§ Discover connections with multiple
devices selected
§ Snooze alarm for all users
§ Vulnerabilities addressed by 3rd Party
library update
– Java, Tomcat, MySQL, OpenSSL, Axis2

CA Spectrum Upgrade Content
All the Material to Upgrade CA Spectrum in a Single View
Visit CA Infrastructure
Management
Community for the
latest CA Spectrum
Upgrade Content
cainc.to/PxszLA

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