Centralized Management of the Unified Visibility Fabric
The Gigamon® Visibility FabricT 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. Auto-discovery and end-to-end topology visualization of the Visibility Fabric and the connected production networks and summarized dashboards allow operators to view and pro-actively identify hot spots with quick-access capabilities to traffic overlays, node status, events, port, and traffic usage exceptions.
A single instance of GigaVUE-FM can manage hundreds of physical and virtual Visibility Fabric nodes across multiple locations or data centers. With tiered pay-as-you-grow licensing, GigaVUE-FM allows customers to grow their management needs proportional to the complexity, reach and attach of the Gigamon Visibility Fabric to the production networks.
GigaVUE-FM is available as both a software-only virtual appliance for VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V, and KVM hypervisors and as a hardware appliance for deployments where customers prefer a turnkey solution for management, or when the reach and scale of the Visibility Fabric needs dedicated compute capacity for management.
GigaVUE-FM software-only option is available at no charge for single-node management and is also available as a 45-day trial for customers to try multi-node management and other advanced features.
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 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 configuration management database (CMDB) analysis
- Update traffic flows in the Visibility Fabric based on network traffic re-direction