Troubleshooting guide

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Cisco Wide Area Application Services Configuration Guide
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Chapter 1 Configuring the Network Analysis Module
Monitoring and Analyzing Traffic
Application
• In the Application window, you can see the traffic level for a given application over a selected period
of time. It is available under the Monitor > Network Analysis Module > Throughput >
Application. This window shows you the following:
• A graph of application traffic over time.
• Top hosts that transmit and receive traffic on that application for the selected time period.
• Application Configuration that shows the criteria by which the NAM classifies packets as that
application. This criteria is typically a list of TCP and/or UDP ports that identify the application.
Note that some applications are identified by heuristic or other state-based algorithms.
Performance Analysis Dashboards
This section includes the following topics:
• Application, page 1-19
• Conversation Multisegments, page 1-19
Application
The Application dashboard provides the transaction time performance for an application as well as the
original and optimized traffic volume reported by the flow agent. Information about how the transaction
time is broken up across client, WAN, and server segments is also provided. For example, if the
transaction time is dominated by the server segment time (due to a slow server), WAAS may not be able
to improve the performance as much as when it is dominated by WAN network time. To view the
Application performance analysis dashboard, choose Monitor > Network Analysis Module >
Performance Analysis > Application.
The charts available on this dashboard are as follows:
• Transaction Time (Client Experience)
• Traffic Volume and Compression Ratio
• Average Concurrent Connections (Optimized vs. Passthru)
• Multi-Segment Network Time (Client LAN - WAN - Server LAN)
Conversation Multisegments
The Conversation Multiple Segments dashboard correlates data from different data sources, and allows
you to view and compare response time metrics from multiple WAAS segments (data sources). To view
the Conversation Multiple Segments dashboard, choose Monitor > Network Analysis Module >
Performance Analysis > Conversation Multisegments.
The Response Time Across Multiple Segments window shows the response time metrics of the selected
server or client-server pair from applicable data sources.