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CA Infrastructure
Management
agilitymade possible
PRODUCT SHEET:
CA Infrastructure Management
CA Infrastructure Management helps you deliver high performing IT
services over your physical, virtual and cloud-based infrastructure
through discovery, fault isolation, root cause analysis, configuration
and change management, performance management, traffic
analysis and predictive capacity planning.
OverviewIT interruptions cause business delays that can be detrimental to your productivity, quality of
service and bottom line. CA Infrastructure Management is designed to help you manage the
performance and availability of your service delivery infrastructure more efficientlywhether
physical, virtual or cloud-based.
The new heterogeneity that virtualization and cloud services insert into infrastructures ensures
that IT management is no longer business as usual. IT, by sub-contracting its services, is
losing direct control but is still responsible to the business for the overall quality of service.
This seachange in the business of IT management cant be avoided if organizations are to
remain competitive but it does require that IT organizations undergo a parallel transformation
of IT service management to maintain service quality.
Our management software makes it simpler for you to monitor voice/data network, server, and
application performance and quickly detect service-impacting incidents across your infrastructure
end-to-end. With centralized visibility and control of your underlying infrastructure and traffic
composition, you can analyze traffic flows, pre-empt network and server issues, and better
predict future capacity needs.
Our service-aware and application-aware infrastructure management is one piece of a larger
successful Service Assurance puzzle. The other chief pieces of the Service Assurance puzzle are
CA Application Performance Management (CA APM) and CA Service Operations Insight (CA SOI).
CA APM provides in-depth analysis of transactions to monitor application performance and
insight into end-user experience. CA SOI enables you to discover and maintain IT and business
service models, and correlates information from CA Infrastructure Management, CA APM and
other CA Technologies and third-party IT management tools in real time, visualizing business
services end-to-end and pinpointing sources of service impact and risk. All three help businesses
improve service predictability and assure that critical applications remain running.
CA InfrastructureManagement customershave seen as much as:
50%improvementin MTTR
15%reductionin monthlybandwidth costs
32.7%reductioninnetwork disruptions1
1ITEconomics:CAInfrastructureManagementReducesOperationalCostsandIncreasesITEfficiencySponsoredby:CA.MaryJohnstonTurner,July2009.
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BenefitsBenefits of the CA Infrastructure Management solution include the ability to:
Gain insight into whos using the network and systems, the genesis of performance
degradations and which applications and cloud services are performing poorly
Transform IT management from reactive to proactive with early notification of performance
anomalies and infrastructure degradation
Intelligently identify where investments should be directed to enhance network performance
or application delivery
Reduce costs by optimizing infrastructure assets and investment in cloud services
Become a more agile organization, able to quickly respond to shifting business demands
Demonstrate IT business value to executive and business stakeholders with extensive
reporting and informed capacity planning
Business growth is welcome but the cost to expand your data center or build out a new
data center is substantial. One major software and services company avoided the need
to invest in a $6 million data center. The CA Technologies solutions help us make better
use of our existing infrastructure and prevent unnecessary capital expenditure. Inaddition to optimizing their current infrastructure, capacity planning data enabled them
to identify assets or networking links that were under-utilized, so they could change
provisioning levels and save money.
Infrastructure management: not business as usual
As your organization grows and organizations sub-contract services to move towards a cloudmodel, infrastructure management becomes increasingly complex. The cost of day-to-day
operations rises as well, stifling your ability to meet budgetary limitations and adopt new,
strategic technologies:
New strategies must be established to manage across the cloud
Initial configuration and deployment of monitoring and management tools for the various
network and system components can be expensive and require significant professional services
The staff size needed to maintain these monitoring and management tools, particularly in
dynamic, ever-changing environments, can easily exceed expectations
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The number of tools in use across all the management domains and the number of vendorsproviding them can rapidly grow out of control and present difficulties when trying to integrate
the various data sources to achieve a centralized view
CA Infrastructure Management simplifies IT management with cross-domain correlation
(physical and virtual systems, data and voice networks, databases, client/server applications,
private/public cloud) to visualize fault and performance information on a centralized enterprise
dashboard. CA Infrastructure Management is service-aware, designed to provide visibility and
control into the performance and availability of the heterogeneous service delivery infrastructure
and all of the traffic it carries.
The leverage of cross-domain information and service-awareness also enables performance and
availability across outsourced services to be monitored and managed. With a centralized view ofyour infrastructure you are better able to pinpoint degradation and outages, regardless of where
in the infrastructure it occurs. Service level agreements (SLAs) established with providers can be
actively managed to maintain competitive performance levels.
Manage availabilityService-aware infrastructure management
At the core of CA Infrastructure Management is functionality to model, monitor and manage
relationships between the infrastructure, services and the users of those services, across
physical, virtualized and cloud environments. By understanding the relationships between
assets, configurations and events that affect a service, CA Infrastructure Management is able
to identify the impact of service issues to the business and to users. Tight integration with other
CA Technologies and third-party network management system tools creates a full service view.
Fault isolation and root cause analysis
Todays enterprises, government agencies and service providers need to reduce the effortand
costrequired to manage their infrastructures. Reducing the time it takes to find network and
system issues and reducing MTTR, by remediating issues quickly, is paramount. Incidents, particularly
performance degradations without obvious cause, can take days and even weeks to find and fix.
CA Infrastructure Management discovers the infrastructure, maps the relationships, detects and
correlates events to suppress unnecessary alarms, automates root cause and impact analysis,
and manages IP service technologies. The AutoDiscovery technology from CA Technologies is a
compelling example of cost-saving automation. The resulting topology map presents clear and
actionable information as root cause analysis pinpoints specific faults down to the individual
port or circuit or other at-fault component.
Across cloud services, fault isolation and root cause analysis has its place in assuring availability.
By monitoring latency and relying on root cause analysis, you can determine if the root cause is
within your area of control for fast remediation. If its in your providers area of control, having
evidence of where the issue is occurring can facilitate an easier conversation and expedite the
resolution. Ongoing SLA monitoring provides another metric for control.
Discover the
infrastructure,
end-to-end Isolate faults rapidly
Pinpoint root cause
Deliver change-awareconfigurationmanagement
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Figure A.
A topology view
showing root cause
CA Infrastructure Management deduces the root cause and visually pinpoints the singleimpacting device (in red), as well as other impacted devices (in gray).
With3,500oncampusstudentsand35,000onlinestudents,qualityITserviceswere
mandatory for this large university. They were frustrated with their piecemeal approach
that did not correlate events within a silo to tickets raised by students or staff. By deploying
an integrated IT management solution from CA Technologies, they have transformed
their IT operation from reactive to proactive, gained insight into the general health of
their IT infrastructure and the ability to get to the root cause of a problem quickly. By
xingITproblemsmorequicklytheuniversitysavestimeandmoney.
Change-aware infrastructure managementThebenefitsofconfigurationandchangemanagementaresignificant;withupto80%of
network problems attributable to poor configuration and change management you can greatly
reduce costly downtime and troubleshooting effort. Some studies have indicated that network
outagescancostenterprisesasmuchas$100,000perhour.
CA Infrastructure Management gives you the tools needed to manage configuration changes:
Capture, monitor, track and remediate configuration changes to thousands of network devices
from virtually any vendor
Correlation of outages to configuration change activity
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Change-aware infrastructure management lets you compare details within the
congurationlefordifferencesthatcanrepresentcongurationissues.
Figure B.
Change-awarecongurationmanagement
Configuration audit trail of any selected network devicePolicy enforcement on comparison of text blocks within host configuration files for
greater control and visibility into how configuration changes impact your overall
infrastructure availability
Identification of a reference configuration to track drift and deviations, helping you
to maintain compliance, with alarm on violations, if required
Comparison of any two configurations, past and present, whether on the same device or
different devices
Change approval control
Scheduling for change automation
Reporting on the who, what and when of configuration changes
Support for out-of-the-box Cisco IOS firmware uploads
CA Infrastructure Management change-awareness is tightly integrated with its root cause and
service impact analysis and with CA Service Desk Manager so that changes can be approved
before being implemented.
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Manage performanceImprove service quality with visibility into traffic flows and performance of the
IT infrastructure
IT services must be continuously available and operating at acceptable performance
levels to support critical business processes. CA Infrastructure Management helps you
improve service quality with visibility into performance of the IT infrastructure.
CA Infrastructure Management collects traffic flow information and monitors and
collects information from hundreds of network hardware vendors (covering thousands
of devices), networking technologies, RFC standard/vendor-specific MIBs, and
environmentals (energy, temperature, humidity, etc.), to enable a broad view of
performance across the infrastructure.
CA Infrastructure Management identifies and alerts you of developing bottlenecks,
degradations, and impending failures and then documents the need for repair,
reconfiguration, or capacity upgrades. Role-based reports help you to meet the needs
of IT and business management, operations staff, administrators, engineers, and
capacity planners.
Performance management depends on a continuous flow of information from managed
elementsresponse paths, routers, applications, etc.back to the performance engine.
Cloud services may be instrumented differently and may not provide the accessibility
todatathatisexpected,forexample,asampleevery5seconds.WithCAInfrastructure
Management you have the range of performance resources to work with the data you
can receive from your provider, analyzing the kind of data they make available and on
their time schedule. Additionally, you can measure response paths point to point and
use the intelligent analytics, discussed in the next section, to notify you when
thresholds are exceeded or when performance deviates from normal.
Sophisticated performance reporting is at the heart of CA Infrastructure Management,
which combines historical and real-time metrics with intelligent analysis to generate
out-of-the-box, role-based views that are used to understand when, where, and how to
avoid developing performance degradations before service quality is jeopardized. These
reports provide a wide range of perspectives for triage and remediation and give IT the
resources to quickly respond to rapidly changing business needs, enhancing their roleas a partner to your business.
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Figure C.
A single view
of performance
Monitorperformanceoftransactions,interfaces,protocols,hosts,trafcows,QoS
classes and SLAs on a single dashboard for your enitre infrastructure.
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Proactive performance through intelligent analyticsCA Infrastructure Management employs intelligent analytics to help you detect and respond to
issues before users and services are impacted.
The Time Over Threshold (TOT) algorithm compares the value of each key performance indicator
(KPI) at each poll to a predefined threshold and reports if the value has been too wrong for too
long. Instead of generating a trap each time the threshold is crossed, the algorithm determines
the aggregate duration of violations within a monitoring window to filter out spikes and
determine real, persistent problems.
The Deviation from Normal (DFN) algorithm uses historical data to establish a baseline for what
is normal behavior for your business. DFN monitors infrastructure component behavior (i.e., KPI
values) within each monitoring window (e.g., hour of each day, day of week, etc.) and thenassesses whether the current behavior deviates from that norm. The algorithm gradually adjusts
normal thresholds, based on the rolling average over the previous six weeks, to reflect the
dynamic, changing state of your business.
Figure D.
Intelligent analytics
monitor performance
Normal behavior is deduced from historical data and adjusts to the changing state of
your business.
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Understand traffic flowsDrill down capabilities from high-level enterprise summaries into detailed flow forensics helps
groupstoidentifyproblemsandtroubleshootmoreefficiently.Designedtotrack100%offlow
traffic, CA Infrastructure Management can proactively identify malicious behavior with all IP
conversations and allows you to set rate, volume and count thresholds based on flows, packets
or bytes.
Traffic analysis capabilities provide real-time visibility and behavior analysis of network traffic,
illustrating how application traffic is impacting network performance. This helps identify the
applications, hosts and conversations that consume the most resources allowing you to optimize
the network infrastructure as well as proactively identify potential problems. It also helps identify
the affected network links and servers so problems can be contained and repaired quickly.
A large airline was experiencing unexplained intermittent application performance issues
across all of their applications and the network was suspected. Catching the performance
issue using sniffers proved difficult, as the issue was too unpredictable.
Solution: The airline utilized CA Technologies traffic analysis capabilities to gain full
enterprise-wide visibility to what was utilizing their network bandwidth and was able to
quickly pinpoint the problem: storms of anti-virus updates occurring across their network
that consumed the majority of the bandwidth.
Figure E.
Analyzetrafcon
every link
CAInfrastructureManagementshowsnetworktrafccompositionsoyoucaneasily
identifywhatcomprisesthetrafconeachlink.Itiseasytoidentifyifmission-critical
applicationsarecompromisedbyunnecessaryapplicationtrafc.
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Proactively plan for capacityCapacity planning can help you avoid unnecessary WAN costs by right sizing your network links,
meet future network requirements by link and application through trending analysis and solve
performance problems faster with real-time identification of business and non-business
applications and their users.
To plan capacity you need to answer questions such as: Which applications are most heavily
utilized in our regional offices? What is the total volume of traffic for our global operations?
Does our new data center have the capacity to handle additional servers? Using historical data
and trend analysis, CA Infrastructure Management provides the information needed to safely roll
out new applications or add new users. Choose from reports such as:
Network Utilization select the interfaces to include so that you can report on network traffic
Application Distribution focus on the applications and protocols in use
ToS Distribution identify the ToS categories for the most heavily utilized applications
Server Activity identify the amount of traffic sent to and from particular servers
Manage new technologiesVirtualization, the converged data center and emerging cloud environments
The ability to manage new technologies is critical in todays competitive and quickly shifting
marketplace. CA Infrastructure Management fully applies its strength in availability and
performance management across your infrastructure.
Discover and model Sun Solaris Zone, IBM LPAR, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VMware environments
and their associated virtual machines (VM) and virtual hierarchies, collecting performance and
availability metrics that include hosts, VM resource pools, etc., for seamless integration with
your physical environment and for an accurate topology of your entire infrastructure. A consistent
use experience is maintained across the variety of virtual platforms and topology views are
supported throughout. By providing centralized fault and performance management across
physical and virtualized environments, you gain the visibility to confidently deploy production
applications in virtualized environments. This can result in greater ROI and operational visibility.
CA Infrastructure Management also supports todays converged data center environments. For
example, CA Infrastructure Management supports Ciscos Unified Computing System, a core
component of converged data centers and private cloud environments, by discovering and
modeling UCS Service Profiles, the UCS chassis, blades, fabric interconnect switches, fiber
channel and Ethernet interfaces, and environmental (power, current, voltage, temperature, etc.)
components. It creates a topology of the UCS environment that allows the user to monitor both
the logical association of UCS Service profiles and also visualize the underlying hardware
components of the UCS system. The CA Infrastructure Management console allows rapid
drill-down and locator searches, fully applying its root cause analysis and alarm correlation to
the UCS environment.
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CA Infrastructure Management has recently added support for managing paths going over anMPLS provider cloud as part of its IP Routing Manager (IPRM) enhancements. This feature
improvesvisualizationoflayer3topologyandmanagedpaths.Inadditiontoprovidingunique
insight to the teams responsible for IT transport, it also provides visibility into the health of the
underlying network transport that delivers critical applications and transactions. This ability to
link infrastructure to applications and align it to services illustrates our unique Service
Assurance strategy.
Improve predictability and preserve investment
through integrationIntegration to improve service predictability
Tight integration between our Service Assurance productsCA Infrastructure Management,
CA APM and CA SOIcan improve the predictability of your business services. Your IT organization
can be more proactive about critical application and infrastructure performance, getting ahead
of trouble areas before they impact the end-user. When outages do occur you can shorten
mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) via our root-cause analysis that pinpoints trouble spots quickly and
efficiently. At the same time, you maintain real-time visibility into the experience of your end
users and into the quality and risk to your business services.
Third-party integrations to leverage existing investments
CA Technologies has certified thousands of third-party IT components to ensure that
CA Infrastructure Management preserves your investment in existing tools and maintains
your freedom of choice.
Universal workfow integration Gain performance management capabilities without having
to learn a new product with integration that provides two-way communication with third-party
management consoles such as HP OpenView Network Node Manager, IBM Netcool, and Cisco
CIC. Operators of these third-party products gain a historical perspective of network
performance with dynamic reporting.
Universal data integration Meet the needs of service provider networks with integration
that supports equipment from Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel, BrixWorx, and Psytechnics, for
managing the performance of carrier-class switching environments. Through integration with
Cisco IP Solution Center, configuration and performance information is obtained from Cisco
VPNs based on Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) or the IPsec protocol. You can prioritize
fixes, document adherence to SLAs, and report performance in VPN-oriented reports that
distinguish between classes of service.
Wireless data integration Designed for carrier-class cellular wireless networks (Nortel PDSN/
GGSN and Starent PDSN/GGSN), this integration gives CA Infrastructure Management the
ability to gather the statistics needed to manage these industry-leading wireless voice and
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data gateways. Collect performance, configuration, utilization, and availability data from theseplatforms, correlate and analyze it, and generate reports with actionable information.
Deliver high quality infrastructure servicesCA Infrastructure Management can help you:
Increase visibility and control into the performance and availability of your heterogeneous
service delivery infrastructure and all of the traffic it delivers
Demonstrate value to the business by prioritizing incident remediation resources against
the most important business service issues
Make more informed investment decisions
Confidently incorporate and manage new technologies, such as virtualization and
cloud services
Reduce the effort needed to manage your infrastructure
Reduce the occurrence of network and system disruptions and reduce MTTR
Become a more agile organization and take advantage of Cloud benefits
The CA Technologies advantageCA Infrastructure Management delivers best-in-class infrastructure availability, configuration
and performance management with extensive traffic analysis across diverse, multi-technology
networks and systems to help assure the availability of your critical business applications.
CA Infrastructure Management integrates with CA Technologies and numerous third-party
performance, application and business service management solutions to help you realize the
value of your investments across your infrastructure.
CA Technologies unites professional, support, and education service elements under a single
umbrella, providing your entire IT organization a seamless and fluid customer experience.
CA Services gives you insight and control over technology and deployment efforts to help
reduce risk and accelerate time-to-value.
CA Education transfers information and insight to your staff to help maximize the value of
your CA Technologies investment.
CA Support focuses on your continuous success with trusted expert help and robust
self-service tools.
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and secures IT environments and enables customers to deliver more flexible IT services. Our
innovative products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to
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integrates with many of your existing investments in CA Technologies, third-party, or custom IT
management tools.
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