VoIP Availability Manager and other Smart products

The
is part of the
and operates in conjunction with
. During the installation of the
, you need to select the
for installation. (The
provides complete information about the installation process.)
provides discovery and monitoring of the VoIP environment. Discovery and monitoring is performed over a combination of infrastructure and applications. The infrastructure includes: Media Gateways, IP PBXs, IP phones, IP phone groups, VoIP switches and routers. The applications include the VoIP network and telephony applications and software services. The inter-dependencies between these elements are represented by the VoIP topology.
VMware Smart Assurance
operates in conjunction with the following
VMware Smart Assurance
software:
  • VMware Smart Assurance Service Assurance Manager
    Consolidates the topology and events from underlying Domain Managers for display in the
    Global Console
    .
    also operates in conjunction with the software that is installed with
    Service Assurance Manager
    such as the
    Adapter Platform
    and
    SNMP Trap Adapter
    .
  • VMware Smart Assurance IP Manager
    Provides topology information about the infrastructure elements and systems by launching discovery probes that discover topology in the vendor-specific VoIP environment. It performs analysis and problem diagnosis, and sends notifications to the Service Assurance Manager for display in the Global Console. The IP Domain Manager can be just
    IP Availability Manager
    , or may consist of
    or
    IP Server Performance Manager
    .
  • and
    , optional
    is an add-on module to
    .
    When deployed, the VoIP Performance Manager provides performance data from the infrastructure elements that enriches the analysis performed by
    .
    captures and records information from multiple devices and applications throughout the Cisco VoIP network, and produces charts, graphs, and reports to help administrators visualize and understand important trends across the VoIP environment.
    The
    provides detailed information on interoperability with other Smart products.