UNUM VEP4600 Appliance - Getting Started Guide - Copyright © 2020 by Pluribus Networks. All Rights Reserved.
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Introduction
Pluribus Networks' UNUM
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Unified Management, Automation, and Analytics Platform Software is an
application portal developed by Pluribus Networks.
UNUM enables the network administrator to extract analytical value from the telemetry data reported by
the network switches powered by the Pluribus Networks Netvisor® ONE network operating system.
Once data is collected, UNUM relies upon a modern search engine database infrastructure to store,
aggregate, filter, correlate, and visualize vast amounts of data in real-time as well as with a powerful time
machine functionality.
The Pluribus UNUM portal provides a collection of feature-rich applications that manages and orchestrates
the gathering and presentation of network analytics using various types of collectors and reporting
software.
The UNUM applications rely primarily on features of the Netvisor ONE, such as VFLOWs, mirrors, and
connections statistics, but can also provide analytics in a non-Pluribus environment.
At a high-level, UNUM supports the following deployment scenarios:
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Netvisor ONE as a mirror switch; an out-of-band Pluribus switch is configured as a mirror in either an
existing Pluribus-switched network or a non-Pluribus-switched network.
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Netvisor ONE as an in-band switch; connection stats are pulled, and VFLOWs configured on the switch.
Collectors gather network analytics and feed data into the UNUM analytics store(s):
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This collector is enhanced to use the vREST API to gather the analytics data
from Netvisor.
The
Pluribus UNUM Virtual Edge Platform 4600
is a 1 rack-unit server hosting the UNUM virtual appliance,
and it provides the following benefits:
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Turn-key appliance to deploy UNUM Platform and Insight Analytics
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Easy to startup and configure
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Store up to 500 Million records
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Capable of collecting up to 1,000 connection records/seconds
The Pluribus UNUM Virtual Edge Platform 4600 with Insight Analytics is suitable for medium to large
deployments.
