Installation guide

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Device Manager Guide, Cisco ACE 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance
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Monitoring Your Network
The ACE Appliance Device Manager Monitor function allows you to monitor key areas of system usage.
The following functionality is provided under the Monitor tab:
• Using Dashboards to Monitor the ACE System and Virtual Contexts, page 14-2
• Error Monitoring, page 14-15
• Monitoring Resource Usage, page 14-17
• Monitoring Traffic, page 14-21
• Monitoring Load Balancing, page 14-23
• Monitoring Application Acceleration, page 14-29
• Configuring Historical Trend and Real Time Graphs for Virtual Contexts, page 14-31
• Setting Up Virtual Contexts Statistics Collection, page 14-33
• Displaying Network Topology Maps, page 14-34
• Testing Ping, page 14-36
Note To troubleshoot problems related to the ACE appliance, use the debug and show commands supported
in the command line interface (CLI). For a list of the ACE appliance show commands, see the Command
Reference, Cisco ACE Application Control Engine. For more detailed descriptions of hardware and
software show commands, see the Administration Guide, Cisco ACE Application Control Engine.
Note When you use the ACE CLI to configure named objects (such as a real server, virtual server, parameter
map, class map, health probe, and so on), consider that the Device Manager (DM) supports object names
with an alphanumeric string of 1 to 64 characters, which can include the following special characters:
underscore (_), hyphen (-), dot (.), and asterisk (*). Spaces are not allowed.
If you use the ACE CLI to configure a named object with special characters that the DM does not
support, you may not be able to configure the ACE using DM.
Prerequisite
Before using the Monitoring functions, you must:
• Enable monitoring on the virtual contexts or servers (see Setting Up Virtual Contexts Statistics
Collection, page 14-33 and Monitoring Load Balancing on Probes, page 14-27 or the
Administration Guide, Cisco ACE Application Control Engine).