WAAS and NetQoS

[Stan Volansky]

Hi team,

I am experiencing couple of issues with WAAS monitoring using NetQoS product. Here is what I have configured so far:

• IP of the SuperAgent management console on the WAEs
• enabled flow monitor on the WAEs
• all WAEs appeared automatically under management console and connected to appropriate aggregator
• opened icmp and 7878 port on the FW

The output of "show statistics flow monitor tcpstat-v1" command tells me:

• for the Host connection (to management console)
  • connection state: Waiting to poll
  • connection failiures: never
• for the Collector connection (to aggregator)
  • connection state: connected
  • connection failures: never
• for the collection statistics
  • all zeros

I am interesting in unoptimized traffic stats on the superagent so I disabled all acceleration features (on the CM: Configure > Acceleration > Enabled Features > unchecked all).

So my questions are:

• is "Waiting to poll" status for the Host connection OK ??
• as I disabled all optimization features I see only passthrough traffic on the WAEs which is the way it should be. But will be this traffic sent to the aggregator (so far there are no collections from the aggregator)??

Many thanks!

Regards,

Stan

[metalchic]

Stan,

  Unfortunately the Cisco WAE only exports optimized traffic through to the Aggregator. So you would need optimized data to get it to export. You would need a regular SuperAgent collector to see the unoptimized data through a SPAN/tap feed.

Other things to check on the WAE, once you optimize the traffic is to ensure that the host filters are the same as the WCCP redirect traffic that the WAE is seeing. You can see this data in a few places.

To address your first question, the "waiting to poll" is totally okay. The communication to the management console is asynchronous. So it's not continually updating.

If I can answer other questions let me know. I'm happy to help.