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How Domains Separate Traffic

Domains separate traffic at the:

• Monitor feed
• Client network
• Server subnet and server

With the same domain assigned to a server, network, and monitor feed, the management console reports the unique application traffic between a client and server from the monitor feed.

VLAN-tagged traffic can be separated at the monitor feed into different domains based on the VLAN tag definition. Separating VLAN-tagged traffic into domains enables a single monitor feed to monitor multiple domains.

Applications are domain-independent. Reports can show application performance across domains without requiring multiple application definitions, such as Exchange Company A and Exchange Company B.

Note that domains do not apply to the application properties. For example, if you rename an application, the application name is the same across domains. However, if you want to set different thresholds for application performance, performance OLAs, and availability OLAs, you must create an application for each domain.