Huawei eSight Brief Product

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eSight Integrated Enterprise NMS

As the network scales and the number of enterprise network applications continue to grow, so does the
number of devices, such as multi-service routers, gateways, and WLAN Access Points (APs), which enable
communication and collaboration in decentralized networks like enterprise campus networks and branch
ofce networks. An increasing number of core and access devices from multiple vendors are used in the
enterprise, each with its own management system, creating a nightmare for the system and network
administrators.

Product Overview
Huawei eSight is a next-generation comprehensive and integrated IP+IT network operation and maintenance
(O&M) system developed to manage enterprise resources, services, and users in compliance with Information
Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standards.
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Product Characteristics
Any Customer
Multi-edition for any customer

Customer

Policy

Any Policy
Intelligent center for any policy

Vendor

eSight
Service

Any Vendor
Open platform for any vendor

Device

Any Device
Flexible mechanism for any device

Any Service
Simplied visualization of any service

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eSight reduces IT device investment and maintenance costs and improves O&M efciency.
eSight works with:

Any vendor
Preset multi-vendor IP device management capabilities: eSight can manage not only Huawei devices
but also other vendor equipment, including Cisco and HP devices.
Open platform: Customers and administrators can customize information about their managed
devices.

Any device
eSight delivers unied management of routers, switches, WLAN, rewalls, and other network devices.
eSight can monitor multiple IT devices including servers, printers, and workstations.
eSight can monitor any device that supports the SNMP protocol.

Any service
eSight simplies O&M by providing multiple views, including MPLS, IPSec, WLAN RF, and more that
allow visual management of network services.
eSight SLA Manager ensures that users of enterprise IT applications enjoy good experiences by
combining network quality metrics to display the network quality in real time.
eSight Network Trafc Analyzer visualizes network trafc to help realize ne-grained management of
enterprise bandwidth.
eSight integrates the management of wired and wireless networks.
eSight provides end-to-end monitoring and fault diagnosis for VPN services.
eSight displays the topology of virtual resources and physical devices on the entire network, detects
virtual machine (VM) changes, and adjusts the physical network policies of VMs accordingly.

Any policy
eSight safeguards enterprise network security by supporting batch policy control on network layer
devices.

Any customer
eSight satises a range of customer demands and reduces O&M costs with multiple editions and
modular components.
The hierarchical network management model is suitable for O&M in enterprises with a headquartersplus-branches structure.

Features and Benets

Lightweight system: eSight uses the browser/server (B/S) architecture and can run on portable computers,
enabling users to access the network and check the network status anytime, anywhere.
Multiple editions: eSight provides four editions express, compact, standard, and professional to meet
the management and business requirements of any type of enterprise.
Comprehensive device management: eSight provides unied management for IP and IT devices, and also
virtual devices and physical devices. It can manage both Huawei and third-party devices and allows users to
customize device management, which greatly reduces initial investment cost.
Unied O&M experience: Based on the unied network management platform, eSight manages wired and
wireless networks uniformly, provides a complete O&M solution, and supports intelligent linkage between
functional components, delivering unied O&M experience and reducing training costs for O&M personnel.
Integration of industry best practices: Based on industry best practices, eSight provides network quality
evaluation, fast fault diagnosis, and detailed fault rectication suggestions, helping users to quickly diagnose
faults and simplify the required skill for maintenance personnel.
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Visualized management: eSight displays services and trafc in graphs and provides topology views, showing
network status and quality from different dimensions and in different modes.
Intelligent diagnosis policies: eSight provides various diagnosis functions, such as VPN fault diagnosis, WLAN
fault diagnosis, and SLA quick diagnosis, helping users to check network quality and restore services quickly.

Product Components
eSight provides a unied O&M platform as well as specic components to meet the demands of enterprise
customers.
Component

Description

eSight Unied
Network
Management
Platform

Provides various editions (compact, standard, and professional) for enterprises.

In addition to uniform management of devices from various vendors, topology
management, fault management, performance management, smart conguration
tool, and conguration le management, eSight Unied Network Management
Platform allows users to customize management of third-party devices, helping users
to establish a network management system catering for their own needs.

eSight Smart
Reporter

Provides preset report templates to meet requirements in most maintenance scenarios.

Provides the professional report design tool for users to customize statistics reports.

eSight SLA
Manager

Integrates with devices' network quality analysis (NQA) function to diagnose and measure
the link performance between network devices 24/7 hours and displays quality of service
(QoS) statistics.
Administrators can set the QoS threshold. eSight noties administrators remotely when
QoS reaches the threshold.
Administrators can use the quick diagnosis function to monitor link performance in real
time and diagnose faults, which improves maintenance efciency.

eSight WLAN
Manager

Integrates the management of wired and wireless networks, and enables service
deployment in batches, service adjustment, troubleshooting, and routine maintenance.

eSight Network
Trafc Analyzer

Collects trafc of routers and Layer 3 switches, analyzes network trafc based on the
NetFlow, NetStream, and sFlow protocols, and allows users to customize reports. This
helps network administrators to monitor the trafc and bandwidth usage and detect
network bottlenecks in a timely manner, providing evidence for network planning and
fault diagnosis.

eSight MPLS
VPN Manager

Works with the MPLS function of routers and switches to provide visible end-to-end
MPLS management of services and diagnosis of faults.

eSight MPLS
Tunnel Manager

Automatically discovers the MPLS TE tunnels (RSVP-TE signaling-based dynamic

tunnels and CR-Static signaling-based static tunnels) and LDP tunnels that have been
deployed on the network, monitors the tunnels in real time, displays tunnel running
status dynamically, and monitors active-standby switchovers and bypasses.
Monitors network QoS in real time.

eSight QoS
Manager

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Provides multi-dimensional data analysis and displays QoS information in graphs and
dashboards, simplifying network management.
Integrates with the smart conguration tool, performance monitoring, Network
Trafc Analyzer, and SLA Manager on eSight Unied Network Management Platform,
providing all-round functions of QoS conguration, monitoring, and optimization.

Component

Description

eSight DC
nCenter

Monitors network resources (including physical servers, VMs, vSwitches, and TOR
switches), displays the topology of virtual resources and physical devices, and
dynamically adjusts physical network policies based on VM changes.

eSight Policy
Center

Provides an integrated access control solution for network devices (such as switches,
WLAN devices, and rewalls) at the access and aggregation layers.
Supports 802.1x, portal, and MAC authentication, enabling exible network access
control over employees, partners, and guests.

Typical Application
Enterprise Campus Networks
Typical Network

eSight Standard Edition

WLAN Manager

802.1x Authentication
Portal Authentication
MAC Authentication Access

Video service

switch

SLA Manager

Network Traffic Analyzer

Aggregation
switch

Policy Center

Terminal-to-terminal SLA monitoring

Outgoing traffic monitoring

WAN

Voice service
Egress router
AC
AP

Campus network

Protected resources

802.1x authentication
Portal authentication
MAC authentication
eSight Campus Network Integrated Management Solution

Integrated management of wired and wireless networks: eSight's open platform supports IP devices from
Cisco, HP and other vendors, and provides unied management of campus devices such as switches,
routers, WLAN devices, and rewalls.

Visualized quality management: SLA Manager can be used with the NQA function of network devices to
help evaluate packet loss ratio, delay, and jitter. This realizes timely fault diagnosis and provides a good
user experience in enterprise campus networks.

Visible trafc management: Fine-grained trafc management at the campus egress allows allocation of
sufcient bandwidth for audio, video, and Internet services.

Visible terminal access management: Supports 802.1x, portal, and MAC authentication to ensure that
only authorized terminals can access enterprise campus networks.

Network Description

Characteristics of enterprise campus networks: A campus network includes enterprise resources such as
network equipment, employees, and core business data. An increasing number of enterprises deploy
wireless devices on their networks. Enterprises need an O&M system for unied management of wired
and wireless networks and an intelligent authentication system to protect their core assets.
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eSight solution: The integrated eSight management solution manages both wired and wireless
devices, displays trafc and QoS statistics, protects core enterprise assets, and improves operation and
maintenance efciency.
The eSight standard edition, WLAN Manager, SLA Manager, Network Trafc Analyzer and Access Control
Manager are recommended for a campus network. The deployment provides these functions:
1. eSight standard edition implements unied management of switches, routers, rewalls, and servers
across the entire network. eSight provides comprehensive network resource management interfaces
to improve O&M efciency and reduce management costs. The intelligent report system summarizes
terminal, resource, and service statistics for the whole network, giving IT managers and enterprise
executives in-depth information about the enterprise network.
2. WLAN Manager integrates the management of wired and wireless networks. It provides GUIs for
WLAN network management, RF information management, and end-to-end fault diagnosis.
3. The SLA Manager conducts end-to-end network quality testing, evaluation, and diagnosis to help
quickly detect network problems on the enterprise network.
4. Network Trafc Analyzer monitors network trafc at the campus egress. It employs rened
management to ensure proper use of network resources and provide trafc data that can be used to
plan bandwidth expansion or trafc policy optimization on a campus network or an MPLS network
leased from a carrier.
5. eSight Policy Center authenticates access terminals and allows only authorized terminals to access
the enterprise network, ensuring efcient utilization of enterprise network resources. In addition,
eSight Policy Center assigns different network access permissions to users based on their roles,
access terminals, and access points. For example, an employee is authorized to access the enterprise
intranet and Internet, while a partner can gain access only to the Internet from the enterprise network.

Networks of Enterprise Branches

Typical Network
Terminal-to-terminal SLA
monitoring
Outgoing traffic monitoring
eSight Standard
Edition

SLA Manager

Video service

Network Traffic
Analyzer

Source host
Destination host
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10.137.59.242 10.137.134.161

E2E MPLS VPN management

Headquarters

Branch 1
Access
switch

Proxy service

Voice service

MPLS VPN
Manager

Branch 2

Egress
router

WAN

Data center

eSight Enterprise Branch Networks Visible Management Solution:

Visualized device management: eSight GUIs display switches, routers, printers and other devices in a
branch in topologies, allowing administrators to view network fault information in real time.

Visualized trafc management: Network Trafc Analyzer (NTA) provides rened management of branch
network trafc and displays the Top N applications and hosts that consume the highest trafc volume to
help enterprises view trafc, locate faults, and plan applications on branch networks.

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Visualized quality management: SLA Manager can be used with the NQA function of network devices to
help evaluate packet loss ratio, delay, and jitter. This realizes timely fault diagnosis and provides a good
user experience in enterprise branches.

Visualized service management: MPLS VPN Manager visualizes the MPLS service SLA and allows for oneclick fault diagnosis of services, devices, and ports to facilitate enterprise network O&M.

Network Description

Characteristics of branch networks: Enterprises usually have a large campus network and multiple
branches. Enterprise applications are deployed on branch networks and these applications require access
to data from enterprise branches in other locations. In order to isolate enterprise services, MPLS service
is often deployed on the enterprise network. How to manage these cross-regional branch networks and
how to make these networks better serve enterprise applications and promote enterprise services have
become new challenge.

eSight solution: eSight provides enterprise customers with a multi-branch visible network management
solution that allows enterprise customers to view the network, devices, quality, trafc, and services. This
simplies O&M and helps employees enjoy high quality online experiences.
1. The eSight standard edition with the SLA Manager, the Network Trafc Analyzer, and the MPLS VPN
Manager is recommended for use on enterprise branch networks. eSight standard edition provides a
lightweight web-based management system to implement easy, unied management of branches.
2. SLA Manager conducts end-to-end network quality testing, evaluation, and diagnosis to help quickly
detect network problems on branches.
3. NTA monitors network trafc at the branch network egress. It employs rened management to
ensure proper use of network resources and provide trafc data that can be used to plan bandwidth
expansion or trafc policy optimization on enterprise branch networks.
4. MPLS VPN Manager connects all enterprise branches to realize visible management of the entire
enterprise network. The end-to-end MPLS service view and SLA testing of MPLS services guarantee
the operation of key services. It realizes one-click fault diagnosis of services, devices, and ports to
facilitate network O&M.

Networks of Data Center

Typical Network

eSight Professional
Network

Network Policy migration

DC nCenter

SLA Manager

Network Trafc Analyzer

VM VM
Hypervlsor

VM migration

VM VM
Hypervlsor

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eSight Data Center Automatic Management Scheme

Visualized management of physical and virtual resources: eSight DC nCenter displays the connection and running status
of devices in real time, including the subordinate and connection relationship between physical TOR switches, physical
servers, vSwitches, and VMs.

Automatic migration of the data center network: DC nCenter detects VM changes (for example, a VM goes online, goes
ofine, or is migrated) through vCenter, and synchronizes virtual network congurations to the physical network by
changing network congurations between source and destination TOR switches.

Automatic assessment of data center KQIs: eSight monitors data center interface trafc and conducts SLA analysis for key
services. This helps users to detect faults in advance and quickly diagnose faults, ensuring the QoS of the data center.

Network Description

Characteristics of data center networks: The VM technology is widely used in data centers to reduce the number of
required servers and enhance service reliability. A data center needs to manage not only the physical network but also the
virtual network. How to ensure service continuity during VM migration is a difculty in data center management.

The eSight professional edition, SLA Manager, Network Trafc Analyzer, and DC nCenter are recommended for a data
center network. The deployment provides these functions:
1. The eSight professional edition uniformly manages data center resources.
2. SLA Manager checks network QoS in E2E mode, displays network QoS statistics, and diagnoses faults by link. This
helps to locate and rectify faults on a data center network in a timely manner.
3. Network Trafc Analyzer monitors network application trafc at the data center egress and provides rened
management to ensure proper utilization of enterprise network resources. This also provides the basis for enterprise
network expansion and trafc policy optimization.
4. DC nCenter uniformly monitors network resources (including physical servers, VMs, vSwitches, and TOR switches),
displays the topology of virtual resources and physical devices, and dynamically adjusts physical network policies
based on VM changes.

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