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Comparison with the CA Application Delivery Analysis Standard Monitor

The Multi-Port Monitor appliance and the CA Standard Monitor both aggregate and export IPv4-based TCP metrics to CA Application Delivery Analysis. The following table summarizes the most significant differences between the CA Application Delivery Analysis single-port monitor and Multi-Port Monitor when monitoring IPv4-based TCP traffic:

Feature

Standard Monitor

Multi-Port Monitor

Monitors multiple mirrored switch ports

Yes

Yes

Offers availability monitoring of servers, applications, and networks

Yes

Yes

Offers self-monitoring and alerting

Yes

Yes. The CA Application Delivery Analysis Inactive Monitoring Device incident is supported. SNMP traps provide additional alerting.

Monitors URLs

Yes

No

Supports investigations from the CA Application Delivery Analysis management console

Yes

Yes. Enhanced packet-capture investigations are supported.

Collects all CA Application Delivery Analysis metrics

Yes

Yes

Supports automatic configuration of servers, applications, and networks

Yes

Yes

Ignores duplicate packets (from a mirrored VLAN, for example)

Yes, after extra configuration.

Yes, automatically.

Provides performance data at 1-minute granularity

No

Yes

Filters and displays captured data for the specified host, server, or application

No

Yes

Receives packet digest data from a Cisco WAE device

Yes

Yes

Receives packet digest data from NI GigaStor

Yes

Yes

Supports CA Application Delivery Analysis on a 64-bit operating system

Yes

Yes. CA Application Delivery Analysis must be running on a 64-bit operating system to be compatible with Multi-Port Monitor.