The Gigamon® 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

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.

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.

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.

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 Configuration Management Database (CMDB) analysis
• Update traffic flows in the Visibility Fabric based on network traffic re-direction

Features & Benefits

• Centralized Management and Control—Provides 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 Visibility—RESTful 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 Reporting—Summarize and customize 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
• Advanced Monitoring—Pro-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
  • Audit trail of user operations for enterprise security compliancy
• FabricVUE™ Traffic Analyzer—Provides fabric-centric visualization of network traffic, allowing IT administrators to use GigaVUE-FM as a first-level dashboard to identify Top-N conversations, applications, end points, and protocols. Uses NetFlow/IPFIX records from GigaVUE fabric nodes to collect and analyze network traffic:
  • That is being filtered out of the monitoring appliances
  • To identify any hot spots on new traffic that needs to be forwarded to the monitoring appliances
• Gigamon Visibility App for Splunk—Enables integration of the Visibility Fabric inventory, health, port, and traffic insight into Splunk Enterprise
  • A Security or Network Operations Center administrator can now correlate an alert with Visibility Fabric traffic metrics, allowing for a quicker MTTR, all within the Splunk dashboard without having to hop across multiple applications
  • This app, available at no charge from the Splunk App Store (splunkbase), uses Gigamon's Software-Defined Visibility enabled REST APIs to periodically collect information from GigaVUE-FM and display the data within the Splunk dashboards

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

About Gigamon

Gigamon provides an intelligent Visibility Fabric™ architecture for enterprises, data centers and service providers around the globe. Our technology empowers infrastructure architects, managers and operators with pervasive and dynamic intelligent visibility of traffic across both physical and virtual environments without affecting the performance or stability of the production network. Through patented technologies and centralized management, the Gigamon GigaVUE® portfolio of high availability and high density products intelligently delivers the appropriate network traffic to management, analysis, compliance and security tools. With over eight years’ experience designing and building traffic visibility products in the US, Gigamon solutions are deployed globally across vertical markets including over half of the Fortune 100 and many government and federal agencies.

View more information regarding Gigamon at www.gigamon.com