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Cisco Wide Area Application Services Configuration Guide
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Chapter 1 Configuring Application Acceleration
Creating a New Traffic Optimization Policy
Creating an Application Definition
The first step in creating an optimization policy is to set up an application definition that identifies
general information about the application, such as the application name and whether you want the WAAS
Central Manager to collect statistics about the application. You can create up to 255 application
definitions on your WAAS system.
To create an application definition, follow these steps:
Step 1 From the WAAS Central Manager menu, choose Configure > Acceleration > Applications.
The Applications window appears, which displays a list of all applications on your WAAS system. It also
lists the device or device group from which it gets the settings. From this window, you can perform the
following tasks:
• Select an application and click the Edit icon in the task bar to modify or click the Delete icon in the
task bar to delete.
• Determine if your WAAS system is collecting statistics on an application. The Enable Statistics
column displays Yes if statistics are being collected for the application.
• Create a new application as described in the steps that follow.
Click the Add Application icon in the taskbar. The Application window appears.
Step 2 Enter a name for this application.
The name cannot contain spaces and special characters.
Step 3 (Optional) Enter a comment in the Comments field.
The comment you enter appears in the Applications window.
Step 4 Check the Enable Statistics check box to allow the WAAS Central Manager to collect data for this
application. To disable data collection for this application, uncheck this box.
The WAAS Central Manager GUI can display statistics for up to 25 applications and 25 class maps. An
error message is displayed if you try to enable more than 25 statistics for either. However, you can use
the WAAS CLI to view statistics for all applications that have policies on a specific WAAS device. For
more information, refer to the Cisco Wide Area Application Services Command Reference.
If you are collecting statistics for an application and decide to disable statistics collection, then reenable
statistics collection at a later time, the historical data will be retained, but a gap in data will exist for the
time period when statistics collection was disabled. An application cannot be deleted if there is an
optimization policy using it. However, if you delete an application that you had collected statistics for,
then later recreate the application, the historical data for the application will be lost. Only data since the
recreation of the application will be displayed.
Note The WAAS Central Manager does not start collecting data for this application until you finish
creating the entire optimization policy.
Step 5 Click OK.
The application definition is saved and is displayed in the application list.