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Architectural Overview of Application Delivery Analysis

CA Application Delivery Analysis consists of a CA Application Delivery Analysis Manager and one or more monitoring devices. The CA Application Delivery Analysis Manager runs the database engine and reporting console. A monitoring device is an appliance that monitors TCP transactions. The CA Application Delivery Analysis Manager consolidates response time data from one or more monitoring devices.

CA Application Delivery Analysis offers multiple monitoring options:

• The CA Multi-Port Monitor is the most scalable and feature-rich option for SPAN or TAP data. It has single Gigabit and 10-Gigabit options.
• The CA Standard Monitor processes up to a single Gigabit of SPAN or TAP data.
• The CA Virtual Systems Monitor monitors to-from traffic between virtual servers on the same VMware ESX Host.
• Cisco Network Analysis Module (NAM). A Cisco NAM is a monitoring device for CA Application Delivery Analysis and lets you perform deep-dive troubleshooting.

A CA Standard Monitor or CA Multi-Port Monitor also processes packet digests from:

• WAN-optimization devices, including Cisco WAAS and Riverbed Steelhead
• [assign itcm product name for the adsm variable]. A NI GigaStor is a long-term packet capture appliance that sends performance data to CA Application Delivery Analysis, but also enables retrospective network analysis to go back in time for packet analysis or to replay session data.

  

In environments where all the server traffic can be mirrored from a single switch port, a Standalone CA Application Delivery Analysis Manager can be used where the CA Application Delivery Analysis Manager receives mirrored TCP packets on its Monitor NIC.