Overview

Use the management console to:

Quantify the performance of applications delivered over the enterprise network with operational level reporting
Validate the impact of planned or unplanned changes with before-and-after analysis
Solve performance problems faster by automatically identifying end-user issues, isolating the cause, and then gathering diagnostic data when incidents occur

The source of performance problems can be any one or a combination of these three elements of an implementation:

Network infrastructure, such as latency introduced by circuits, traffic congestion, routers, and switches.
Server infrastructure, such as latency introduced by CPU processing, memory I/O, or disk read and writes.
Application architecture, for example, writing large data requests in numerous small packets for transmission.

You can determine the origin of performance problems using the following method to review and analyze management console data:

Identify the application showing performance problems using Performance Maps and Application Detail views.
Isolate the time component contributing to the performance problem. The colors in the Response Time Component view identify each component making up the total time.
Investigate the contributing factors to the performance problem by examining the Traffic, Sessions, Trends, Response Size, QoS, and Statistics pages.