Application Note Extreme Networks Purview and

 Extreme Networks Purview Application
Analytics Integration with VMware vRealize
Log Insight
Application Note
Abstract: This document describes the integration of Extreme Networks Purview Application
Analytics engine with the VMware vRealize Log Insight real-time log management dashboard solution.
Published: May 2015
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Application Note – Purview Application Analytics Integration with VMware vRealize Log Insight Overview
Integration between Extreme Networks Purview Application Analytics and the VMware
vRealize Log Insight platform provides real-time analytics and visiblity into application
performance, usage, and capacity across the network.
Extreme Networks Purview solution receives a combination of application traffic and
Netflow information from the network infrastructure to provide visibility into the
applications utilized within the corporate network, and provide information related to
application performance.
Application information is forwarded into the VMware Log Insight utility via a Syslog feed
enabling IT departments to identify trends, resource use, and operational effectiveness
of traffic traversing the VMware environment. IT administrators can easily drill down into
details such as overall applications use, clients, flows, network performance, and
business specific dashboards.
Purview leverages an open and customizable library of application fingerprints (including
upwards of 9,000 fingerprints for over 7,000 applications and protocols out of the box) to
provide detailed application usage and performance information by application, user,
device type, location, and more.
By providing pervasive application monitoring across the entire network from edge to
datacenter to core to internet, the integration of Purview and vRealize Log Insight unifies
the viewing of network and application performance, as well as resource and asset
utilization well beyond the virtual infrastructure.
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Software Requirements
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Extreme Networks NetSight Advanced 6.2 or above
Extreme Networks Purview Application Analytics Engine
VMware vRealize Log Insight Appliance
VMware vSphere infrastructure
Hardware Requirements
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Extreme Networks CoreFlow 2-enabled Standalone S-Series Appliance (SSA) or
Application Sensor PV-FC-180
Figure 1: Solution Components
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Dashboard displays for Purview within Log Insight are categorized into three separate
sections:
Purview Application Usage
The Application Usage dashboard provides a series of dashboard widgets categorized
by application group that display within a time series chart the number of users
accessing applications within each particular application group. Data detailing the L7
applications can be used in order to verify compliance to company policy or perform
troubleshooting of the infrastructure. Application groups categorized in the dashboard
include:
• Cloud Storage
• Cloud Computing
• Storage
• Business Applications
• Streaming Applications
• Social Networking
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The Purview Analytics dashboard provides a collection of time series charts displaying
the average network and application response times for critical networking applications,
including business and storage applications as well as DNS response time. Comparing
and contrasting TCP and application response times allows administrators to quickly
determine the source of issues within the network. Entering interactive analysis from the
dashboard allows the user to quickly focus on specific clients and compare results with
those of the network as a whole.
Purview Client Information
The Client Information dashboard provides operating system details as well as client
counts on the network. Retaining visibility regarding the number of IPs connected to the
network provides the ability to consider thresholds in order to prevent sprawl.
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Extreme Networks Purview Content Pack for Log Insight includes a small set of custom
queries that can be used to quickly check the TCP and network response times for
specific clients and servers, as well as for specific layer 7 applications. In addition, a
query to display all applications used by a single client is included.
For more information regarding other Extreme Networks and VMware integrations,
please visit www.extremenetworks.com/partners/tsp/data-center-cloud or
www.extremenetworks.com/product/purview
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