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Permanent Changes

The management console uses several criteria to determine whether an interruption is temporary or permanent, but when a Cisco WAE stops sending segmented application performance data for more than 20 minutes, the management console typically considers the interruption to be permanent. In this case, the management console stops reporting the unoptimized traffic from the server’s mirrored switch port in the application’s Server segment, for example, HTTP [Server], and instead reports on the SPAN data in the unoptimized application, HTTP. If optimization resumes, the management console automatically resumes monitoring the optimized application by network segment.

If you are setting up WAAS optimization, for example, to measure the benefits of optimizing different applications, and you want the management console to immediately report changes in optimization, you can reset (Permanent Changes, Reset Optimized Applications) the management console.