The Route Analytics Management System (RAMS) is an IP Route Analytics
tool that listens to routing protocols and builds a real-time routing topology
map. This map helps you visualize and understand the dynamic operation of
the network.
RAMS offers the following powerful contributions to network planning and
analysis:
• Unified, real-time routing topology view. View complex topologies
hierarchically or by protocol, autonomous system (AS), or IGP area. The
History Navigator window lets you play back a history of your routing
topology changes.
• Monitoring and alerts. Monitor vital service parameters (network
churn, prefix flaps, and so on), watch for changes in specific end-to-end
service paths and prefixes, and look for degrading redundancy. RAMS can
also raise alerts on all watched parameters to head off costly outages.
• Interactive routing analysis. Perform “before and after” comparisons
and detailed event analysis using a comprehensive routing base and
complete event history to help you rapidly establish the cause of the
problem.
• Planning support. Display network activity patterns to help you
optimize performance and minimize unnecessary transit fees or bandwidth
costs. You can simulate a link failure, or change link metric costs, to see
how your routing topology will respond to specific failures or upgrades. You
can also import and export these simulated changes, so you can manage
multiple routing scenarios using external editors.
• Reports. View trends and identify emerging issues before they become
problems. You can generate web-based reports for any recorded time
period, which show you key information about network health.