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Why Network Types Are Useful

Network types provide several benefits:

• Automatically group the client networks for reporting. When registered as a data source with the CA PC or the CA NPC, each network type you define creates a Network Region Type system group.

  If you do not assign network types to your client networks, you can create groups in the CA PC or the CA NPC to report on a group of client networks in the management console and the CA PC or the CA NPC.

  Consider implementing rule-based site groups in the CA PC or the CA NPC to manage remote sites.

• Tune performance thresholds by network type and enable some client networks to have tighter or looser thresholds on the same application.

  The management console calculates sensitivity thresholds for all the TCP sessions between each application port, server, and client network. However, with network types, you can adjust the sensitivity of an application on a particular group of networks.

  If you are planning to use static thresholds, network types let you set static thresholds on a particular group of networks.

• Customize network incident responses by network type. Some examples are listed below:
  • Notify the appropriate person by email or SNMP trap.
  • Launch a Trace Route investigation in response to a network incident on a particular group of networks.
• Create performance Operational Level Agreements (OLAs) by network type to allow remote and local networks to have separate performance OLA thresholds. Using network types to group networks with similar latencies ensures that you can properly configure OLAs on Network Round Trip Time and Total Transaction Time metrics by letting you configure your OLAs per network type.

More information:

Managing Performance Thresholds

Managing Application Performance OLAs