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Chapter 1 Configuring the Network Analysis Module
Monitoring and Analyzing Traffic
When you choose Monitor > Network Analysis Module > Top Talkers Details, you will see the
window that assists you in the predeployment process. Use the Interactive Report window to select the
traffic you want to analyze for optimization. The window displays the Top Applications, Top Network
Links, Top Clients, and Top Servers.
Based on the results, you can then configure the WAAS products to optimize your network.
Throughput Dashboards
This section includes the following topics:
• Network, page 1-18
• Top Applications, page 1-18
• Application, page 1-19
Network
The Network dashboard enables you to view LAN versus WAN throughput for WAAS users both in the
incoming and outgoing directions. To view these reports, configure interface groups that comprise WAN
and LAN interfaces. The displayed information represents the total data collected since the collection
was created, or since the NAM was restarted. To view the Network dashboard, choose Monitor >
Network Analysis Module > Throughput > Network.
Choose an interface group view from the Interface Selector on the left side of the window to see traffic
in the charts. Click the arrow icon to the left of the NDE data source name to display all interfaces
groups, and then select an interface group view. If the charts show no data, and you see the message
“Interface needs to be selected,” you have not yet chosen an interface group view.
Once chose the interface group view, you see the following charts populated:
• Interface Traffic (Ingress % Utilization and Egress % Utilization)
• Top N Applications—Ingress
• Top N Applications—Egress
• Top N Hosts—Ingress
• Top N Hosts—Egress
• Top N DSCP Aggr—Ingress
• Top N DSCP Aggr—Egress
You can enter the interface speed manually through the Interface capacity table, or the speed can be auto
configured if the SNMP settings for the NDE device are entered in the data source table.
Top Applications
In the Top Applications dashboard, you can view the top applications by the traffic rate over a selected
time and for the specified site and/or data source.
Applications Over Time shows you all of the applications that have been running for the time period
interval. The color-coded legend shows you what the applications are running.
If you place your cursor over any of the data points, you get more details about the exact values for each
of the applications that are running.
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