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Product Overview
Cisco® Unified Service Statistics Manager is a component of the Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite, consisting of Cisco® Unified Provisioning Manager, Cisco® Unified Operations Manager, Cisco® Unified Service Monitor, and Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager. Designed specifically for managing Cisco Unified Communications solutions, the Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite offers comprehensive provisioning, monitoring, troubleshooting, and reporting capabilities throughout the solution lifecycle.
Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager provides advanced statistics analysis and reporting capabilities for Cisco Unified Communications deployments. It is an easy-to-use web-based software product that features a variety of advanced reports for executive, operations, and capacity-planning functions. Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager provides many predefined and customizable reports that provide visibility into key metrics including call volume, service availability, call quality, resource utilization, and capacity across the Cisco Unified Communications system, including across multiple Cisco Unified Communications Manager clusters, gateways, and related devices. It helps enable users to view information based on network, service, business, and user criteria. Users can define service-level agreement (SLA) constructs as well as measure and verify them based on collected unified communications statistics. Customizable report templates and automatic report invocation and scheduling provide users with a great deal of power and flexibility.
Figure 1. Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager User Interface
Features and Benefits
Unified Performance Statistics Analysis and Reporting
Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager uses the data collection capabilities of Cisco Unified Operations Manager and Cisco Unified Service Monitor to harvest and consolidate performance statistics from a variety of Cisco devices, applications, and systems including Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express, Cisco Unity® software, Cisco Unity Connection, Cisco Unity Express, and Cisco IOS® Software-based voice gateways, thereby providing a unified performance analysis and reporting window into the Cisco Unified Communications deployment.
A Variety of Predefined Reports for Executives and Operations and Capacity-Planning Personnel
Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager comes with more than 40 predefined reports on key metrics including call volume (Figure 2), service availability, call quality, resource utilization, and availability across the Cisco Unified Communications System. These reports are designed to help executives to gain insight into the overall performance of Unified Communications services and trends over time. Operations personnel can generate traffic, service quality, availability, and exception reports to proactively focus operations resources on potential issues before they become service-affecting, and capacity planners can generate a variety of gateway and trunk utilization trend reports to estimate at what point in the future upgrades will need to occur, which will enable them to proactively allocate budget and resources to perform the upgrades.
Figure 2. Call Volume Report across Multiple Cisco Unified Communications Manager Clusters
Customizable Data Partitioning, Analysis, and Reporting
Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager helps enable users to partition the collected performance data based on a variety of network, service, user, and business criteria for custom analysis and reporting. For example, reports could be generated based on custom time periods, logical groups of trunks on user-selected gateways, user-defined groups of phone extension numbers, Cisco Unified Communications Manager clusters, and so on. This allows users to gain unique perspectives on the performance of their Cisco Unified Communications deployment for executive, operations and capacity-planning purposes.
SLA Reporting
Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager provides the capability to define SLAs for logical or business constructs such as locations, departments, branch offices, regions, clusters, and so on, and for relevant attributes (call quality, availability, jitter, trunk utilization, and so on). User-defined threshold settings can be associated with SLAs, which can be hierarchically structured. SLA violations (and their associated user-defined financial impact) can be rolled up to a master SLA for enterprisewide reporting, executive review, and action. This helps executives and operations personnel to determine whether network issues violate predefined service levels and to estimate the associated business impact and cost.
Table 1 lists features and benefits of Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager.
Table 1. Features and Benefits
System Requirements
Table 2 lists the minimum system requirements of Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager.
Table 2. System Requirements
Ordering Information
Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager 1.1 will begin shipping on November 7, 2008. Customers can order these new products through normal Cisco sales channels as of August 8, 2008. Base part number includes licensing for the indicated number of phones. Add-on licenses are available to increase the maximum number of phones supported. Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager can be ordered as part of a management suite bundle or as a standalone product.
Table 3 lists ordering information. To place an order, visit the Cisco Ordering Homepage.
Table 3. Ordering Information
Cisco Unified Communications Services
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For More Information
For more information about Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager, please visit http://www.cisco.com/go/cussm, contact your local account representative, or send an email to the Cisco product marketing group at ask-ipc-management@cisco.com.