Where this offering fits
Fabric Manager addresses administration of supported Gigamon visibility infrastructure. Its purpose is to make the traffic-delivery design manageable and reviewable. Central control should preserve attribution, role separation and recovery, especially where a configuration change can remove data from security tools.
Architecture and rollout decisions
Inventory managed nodes and versions, then confirm current compatibility. Pilot a controlled traffic-map change and verify its actual outputs. Define administrative roles and configuration backup. Test the documented behaviour when central management is unavailable, distinguishing management access from continued forwarding in the selected architecture.
An evaluation scenario for this offering
Start a Fabric Manager pilot with a documented map sending a synthetic test flow to one authorised consumer. Have a permitted operator propose and apply a small change, then verify the receiving output rather than relying only on configuration status. Ask a lower-privilege test role to attempt an out-of-scope administrative action through the approved method. Finally, rehearse the documented recovery from an incorrect map in the test environment. Preserve the operator identity, configuration versions and destination evidence. This shows whether the team can manage a visibility change accountably without unintentionally removing evidence needed by another tool.
Evidence to request for this scope
- Confirm managed-platform and version support.
- Audit a representative traffic-map change.
- Retain configuration recovery and operator access procedures.