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Cisco Wide Area Application Services Configuration Guide
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Chapter 1 Configuring AppNav
Configuring an AppNav Cluster
Step 4 In the Name field, enter a new name for the cluster if you want to rename it.
Step 5 (Optional) In the Description field, enter the cluster description. Use only letters and numbers, up to a
maximum of 200 characters.
Step 6 (Optional) In the Authentication Key and Confirm Authentication Key fields, enter an authentication key
that is used to authenticate communications between the WAAS devices in the cluster. Use only letters
and numbers, up to a maximum of 64 characters.
Step 7 (Optional) In the Shutdown Wait Time field, enter the number of seconds that WNs in the cluster should
wait for all connections to terminate before shutting down. The default is 120 seconds.
Step 8 (Optional) To configure cluster distribution and off-loading of pass-through connections, expand the
Advanced Settings section by clicking it.
Step 9 (Optional) To enable distribution of traffic from the ANCs in the cluster to WNs, ensure that the Enable
distribution of traffic on AppNav Controllers check box is checked. To disable distribution of traffic,
uncheck this box. When distribution is disabled, the cluster operates in monitoring mode where it
continues to intercept traffic and, instead of distributing it to WNs, passes it through. This mode can be
useful for monitoring traffic statistics without optimizing the traffic.
Step 10 (Optional) To configure offloading of pass-through connections from WNs to ANCs, check the check
boxes in the Enable offload of pass-through connections from WAAS nodes to AppNav Controllers
for following reasons section. This feature allows pass-through connections to be passed through at the
ANC instead of being distributed to the WN and then passed-through. Configure pass-through offload
as follows:
a. To offload all pass-through connections, which includes connections passed through due to error
conditions, check the All pass-through connections check box. Check this box only if you do not
need application visibility on the WNs into pass-through traffic due to error conditions. The default
is unchecked.
b. To offload connections passed through due to missing policy configuration, check the Due to
missing policy configuration check box. The default is checked.
c. To offload connections passed through due to no peer WN, check the Due to no peer WAAS node
check box. The default is checked.
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