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Introduction

A CA Standard Monitor serves as a type of monitoring device for IPv4-based Steelhead-optimized traffic. The CA Standard Monitor passively monitors WAN-optimized traffic and helps keep a continuous record of end-to-end system performance.

In the Steelhead Physical In-Path configuration below, the monitoring device at the data center monitors optimized WAN traffic across the WAN network segment.

The CA Standard Monitor in the data center can monitor both optimized traffic on the WAN segment and unoptimized traffic on the Server segment.

A separate Monitor NIC is required for optimized and unoptimized traffic.