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How Cisco WAAS Works as a Monitoring Device

A Cisco WAE device (Cisco WAE) serves as a type of monitoring device for CA Application Delivery Analysis. Use Cisco WAE devices to gain visibility into optimization. Unlike a monitoring device that monitors the server SPAN, Cisco WAE devices are distributed across the network.

Monitoring WAN optimization between Cisco WAE devices lets you see how Cisco WAAS optimization affects individual application response times at each segment of the network.

In the example below, the Cisco WAE devices at the branch and data center locations send optimized application performance data to a CA Standard Monitor that also monitors the server SPAN. The CA Standard Monitor:

• Calculates performance metrics for the optimized traffic on the Client and WAN segments.
• Replaces the Server segment performance data from the data center WAE with the more accurate performance data collected by the CA Standard Monitor from the server’s mirrored switch port.
• Automatically monitors application traffic in the server SPAN and updates the management console with a list of servers to be monitored by all monitoring devices.

  

To monitor a Cisco WAAS environment, you are not required to monitor the server’s mirrored switch port.

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