About NetIM
NetIM is an integrated solution for mapping, monitoring, and troubleshooting your IT infrastructure. With NetIM, you can capture infrastructure topology information, detect performance issues, map application network paths, diagram your network, and troubleshoot infrastructure problems. Additionally, you can manage infrastructure issues within the context of application, network, and end-user experience for a blended view of overall performance.
NetIM version 2.x represents NetIM’s next generation and a major change from previous releases in terms of scalability, software architecture, and deployment. NetIM 2.x is available for installation on VMware ESXI hypervisors, and Azure and Amazon Web Services. For information about supported versions, see the Riverbed NetIM Installation Guide on the Support site.
NetIM 2.x no longer supports installations on Windows platforms. For more information, see the latest version of Migrating to NetIM on the Support site.
NetIM provides agentless infrastructure component monitoring to deliver a comprehensive picture of how your infrastructure is affecting network and application performance and how that impacts end-user experience.
NetIM offers a broad overview of how the devices on your network are performing to complement your network and application performance management visibility. NetIM supports the following:
• Real-Time Monitoring—NetIM leverages multiple approaches (for example, Synthetic Testing, SNMP, CLI) to identify new and changed infrastructure components.
• Analytics—Measure current performance and identify violations.
• Topology and Paths—Visualize and triage issues quickly.
• Troubleshooting—Search-based workflows and on-demand network paths help you to quickly identify and troubleshoot infrastructure performance issues.
• Event and Alert Visibility—Configure alerts based on metric threshold violations, syslogs, and traps and use the Alerts page to view, filter, and drill down into details.
• Reporting—Report on infrastructure inventory, configuration, and performance metrics.
The following diagram shows the NetIM 2.x architecture, with NetIM deployed on an ESXI hypervisor in a Docker swarm. For information about Docker swarms, see the
Docker documentation.
The Docker swarm is transparent to you and requires no maintenance or administration.
NetIM 2.x architecture
For more information about the benefits of NetIM, including use cases, white papers, and videos, go to the Riverbed
NetIM
product page.