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Device Manager Guide, Cisco ACE 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance
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Chapter 14 Monitoring Your Network
Monitoring Traffic
Step 2 Click Poll Now to instruct DM to poll the devices and display the current values.
Step 3 Click OK when asked if you want to poll the devices for data now.
Related Topics
• Monitoring Virtual Context Resource Usage, page 14-17
• Monitoring System Traffic Resource Usage, page 14-19
• Configuring Historical Trend and Real Time Graphs for Virtual Contexts, page 14-31
Monitoring Traffic
DM determines traffic information for your ACE appliance by calculating the delta traffic values since
the last polling cycle and displays the resulting values. You can view traffic summary information as
provided in the following steps.
Procedure
Step 1 Choose Monitor > Virtual Contexts > Traffic Summary.
Step 2 Use the object selector to view the traffic information for all contexts or a specific context.
The information shown in Table 14-5 appears in the Traffic Summary page.
Note You can click on any column heading to sort the table by that column.
Table 14-4 System Resource Usage Features Field Descriptions
Field Description
Context Name of the virtual context
Translation Entries % Current number of network and port address translations
ACL Memory (Bytes) % ACL memory usage in bytes
RegEx Memory (Bytes) % Regular expressions memory usage in bytes
Syslog Buffer Size (Bytes) % Syslog message buffer size in bytes
Syslog Message Rate (Messages/S) % Syslog messages per second
Table 14-5 Traffic Summary Fields
Field Description
Context Name of the context. This field is displayed when the object selector is *All.*
Interface Name of the interface. Click the interface hyperlink to get traffic data polled directly as shown in
Table 14-5.