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Feature

Description / Benefit

Pervasive Visibility

(Monitor or Tap Every Rack)

• Packet filtering, aggregation, tool port load-balancing, and packet replication

functions.

• Single switch or scale-out 1/2/3 layer fabric designs: 1G, 10G, 25G, 40G, 100G and

400G.

• Centralized fabric/policy definition and instrumentation of open Ethernet switches

within the network.

• Programmatic event-triggered monitoring (via REST API).

• Multiple overlapping match rules per filter interface based on a variety of L2, L3, L4

header, as well as via deeper packet matching (DPM) attributes.

• Time/packet-based scheduling of policies.

• Efficient utilization of open Ethernet switch capabilities via Controller Policy Optimizer

Engine.

High Performance, Highly

Scalable Network Monitoring

Fabric

• Resilient architecture for High Availability and disaster recovery use cases.

• Auto Fabric Path Computation that detects and responds to failures in the monitoring

network.

• Policy-based load balancing of core links with failover detection to efficiently utilize

fabric bandwidth and ensure resiliency.

• Detection of service node/link failure and an option to bypass the service.

• Link aggregation (LAG) in the open Ethernet fabric (including across core links, service

node links, and delivery links).

• Tagging policy or tap (filter) interfaces.

• Supports a variety of security and monitoring tool vendors.

• Supports a variety of NPBs as stand-alone or chained service nodes.

Centralized Management,

Configuration,

Troubleshooting

• DMF Controller is the single pane of glass for fabric and policy management.

• Policies can be configured from a centralized controller to forward flows from multiple

filter interfaces to multiple delivery interfaces, including optional service nodes.

Packet replication is made at the last common node to optimize the fabric bandwidth.

• GUI, REST API, and CLI for configuration and viewing operational state.

• Centralized interface, flow, and congestion-statistics collection.

• Simplified install/upgrade of the fabric via the DMF Controller (zero-touch fabric).

• Supports Ansible-enabled automated workflows to backup configs, reset the entire

deployment to factory default, and rebuild the DMF fabric with the Golden config.

• Supports virtual IP addresses for the controller high-availability pair.

Multi-DC/Multi-Site

Tunneling

(Tap Every Location)

• Centralized monitoring of remote DCs/POPs/branches/sites (across L3 WAN).

• Support tools located in a single tool farm in a centralized DC.

• Replication of packets across tunnels.

• Tunneling at 1G, 10G, 25G, 40G,100G and 400G bandwidths.

• Rate limiting of monitored traffic before entering L3 WAN.

• Tunneling enabled on a per-switch basis.