Monitoring with Cisco WAAS › Share Optimization Data between Management Consoles › Share WAN-Optimized Performance Data

Share WAN-Optimized Performance Data

Sharing WAN-optimized application performance data requires you to:

• Assign all the Cisco WAE devices and servers to the same source set. If you have not configured a source set, you can simply use the Default Deployment source set.
• Configure the monitoring devices that receive packet digest files to share application performance data.
• Ensure that all the shared monitoring devices can communicate with:
  • Each management console on TCP-3308. All the monitoring devices that receive packet digest files from a Cisco WAE must be able to communicate with each management console on TCP-3308.
  • All the Cisco WAE devices on TCP-7878. The management console automatically configures sharing between monitoring devices.

After you enable sharing on all the monitoring devices, it can take up to 25 minutes for a Cisco WAE to poll its assigned monitor for an updated list of servers and to begin reporting shared data.

If a monitor cannot share WAN-optimized application performance data, it will store the data until sharing is restored. However, a monitor can only store up to 1 GB of shared data. Any shared data that cannot be stored on the monitor is lost and cannot be recovered.

Follow these steps:

1. Ensure that the CA Standard Monitor and CA Multi-Port Monitor monitoring devices which receive packet digest files from a Cisco WAE can communicate with each management console on TCP-3308. All the monitoring devices must be able to communicate with management console on TCP-3308.
2. Ensure that all monitoring devices can communicate with each other on TCP-7878.
3. Configure all monitoring devices to share WAN-optimized application performance data:
   1. Create a configuration file named DTMDistributedConsoles.ini.
   2. In DTMDistributedConsoles.ini, enter the IP address of each management console you want to share. Be sure to include the IP address of the management console that is assigned to the monitor. When specifying IP addresses, separate each IP address on a new line using dot-decimal notation.
   3. Copy the same DTMDistributedConsoles.ini file to all monitoring devices. For a:
      • CA Standard Monitor, copy the file to the <ADA_HOME>\bin folder
      • CA Multi-Port Monitor, copy the file to the /opt/NetQoS/bin folder
   4. To begin sharing according to the .ini file configuration:
      • On each CA Standard Monitor, open the Windows Services Control Panel and restart the CA ADA Data Transfer Manager service.
      • On each CA Multi-Port Monitor, from the Web interface, open the Process Status page and restart the caperformancecenter_devicemanager process.

      It can take up to 25 minutes for the management console to report shared WAN-optimized Client segment data.