Specifications include, but are not limited to: Vendor solution should be able to provide at a minimum the following capabilities: Monitoring via SNMP, jFlow, NetFlow, sFlow, WMI, NBAR2, and/or IPFIX. Monitoring for firewalls, routers, switches, wireless devices, load balancers, and more. Syslog server Receive SNMP traps Netflow Interface utilization and statistics Top talkers, errors, etc. Realtime statistics and graphing Application performance/user experience monitoring Custom alerting Email notification alerts (text to phone?) VoIP monitoring, call tracking/statistics Configuration Management Deploy software patches/updates and configuration changes Device configuration backup and compare Configuration baseline monitoring Configuration and IOS security compliance auditing (IRS1075) Configuration change scripting supporting variables/logic Device configuration change management
