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Drill to Details with the CA Multi-Port Monitor

The management console integrates with the CA Multi-Port Monitor to enable session-level visibility and packet export for session analysis, for example, in CA Observer Expert.

In the Operations, Incidents, or Engineering tab of the management console, the current reporting context, including the timeframe, network, server, and application settings, is applied to the drilldown views in the CA Multi-Port Monitor.

Unlike the CA Standard Monitor, which analyzes TCP sessions at the network level with a 5-minute granularity, the CA Multi-Port Monitor can analyze a TCP session between a server and a particular client at a 1-minute granularity. In addition, the CA Multi-Port Monitor enables you to analyze traffic volume for all traffic observed by the CA Multi-Port Monitor, including TCP and non-TCP traffic.

To follow a troubleshooting path from a management console report to a default analysis in the CA Multi-Port Monitor, we recommend that you start with a relatively narrow timeframe, such as one hour, selected in the management console report settings. Any filtering you apply to the report, such as narrowing the data to a single network, server, or application, remains in place after drilldown to the default view in the CA Multi-Port Monitor and can help direct your troubleshooting efforts toward the right area of the network.

Follow these steps:

1. Click Settings in the Operations, Incidents, or Engineering tab.

   The Settings dialog box opens.

2. Configure the report settings and click OK.

   To enable the drilldown to automatically select the logical port that observes the server traffic, you must configure the report settings in the management console to select a particular server.

3. Click Session Analysis.

   If the Session Analysis button is disabled, configure the report settings to choose a server that is monitored by the CA Multi-Port Monitor.

   The CA Multi-Port Monitor opens to the Analysis Menu displays response time metrics based on the context of the report settings.

   For more information about working with the Analysis Menu, see the CA Multi-Port Monitor product documentation.

   Tip: If you configure the report settings to show All Servers, and the CA Multi-Port Monitor is configured with more than one logical port, the Session Analysis dialog box prompts you to choose the logical port that observes the server traffic you want to analyze. Select the appropriate logical port and click OK to open the CA Multi-Port Monitor.