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How a Cisco NAM Works

The Cisco NAM Metric Agent creates metric digest files that include computed response time metrics for all traffic that you mirror to the Cisco NAM.

The NAM monitor feed on the CA Application Delivery Analysis Manager receives metric digest files from Cisco NAMs on its Management NIC and processes the response time statistics to automatically monitor the busiest applications and any user-defined applications.

A Distributed CA Application Delivery Analysis Manager is required.

As shown in the following diagram, you can collect packets from a SPAN, mirror port, network tap, and Cisco WAE devices. The data is processed through the Cisco NAM Metric Agent, and the computed response time statistics are sent to the CA Application Delivery Analysis Manager.

Shows how the Cisco NAM works as a monitoring device for CA Application Delivery Analysis.

The CA Application Delivery Analysis Manager receives packet digest files on its NAM monitor feed.