Hey All,
Was wondering if Cisco's WAAS is/could be on the roadmap for being supported by Solarwinds??
Have roughly 15 of these devices in our network and would love to have the pretty stats in solarwinds for reporting and such.
Thanks
Michael
What specific items would be valuable for you to see within Orion on the WAAS
That is a very good question...
I will chat to the senior network engineers and get more details on what they are after...
From what i understand NetQoS is currently one of the only products to retrieve the data correctly and accurately (don't quote me on this though)
From my understanding they are after Graphs displaying the percentage of accelerated traffic, what's been saved by using WAAS, and the breakdown of the traffic (similar to Netflow)
These type of reports are built into the Central Manager in the WAAS deployment.
4.1.1b and higher will give you better reporting.
Elliott,
Thanks for the response. At the moment we are retrieving our reporting from the Central Manager however my boss would like to have everything within Solarwinds and Automated reporting / alerting from there, this would also allow the collection of all WAAS Statistics by solarwinds as well and could add another graph to the Node Details page.
Not sure if it will ever be possible but can always hope
+1 on this request. Cisco's Central Manager is a pain. We have enough places to get information that having these details centraled in NPM would be great. Things of most interest would be the "compression" graphs, and the sub-compression graphs for the top accelerators (IE: HTTP, CIFS, Citrix).
Also, anyone else notice that the jump to Orion NPM 10.2.1 breaks the memory monitoring of WAEs? Since the upgrade last week, Solarwinds is showing all of my WAEs at 99-100% memory utilization, but the boxes themselves show otherwise. Right now, one box that shows in SOlarWinds as 99% is really at 80% based on "show memory" output from the WAE.
(SolarWind's Case #299944 - "NPM 10.2.1 breaks memory stats on Cisco WAAS)
Thanks,
David.
Hi David,
I just upgraded to 10.2 and have noticed this too what was the resolution to your case?
Regards
Ciaran
I´m seeing the same behaviour on my NPM 10.2.2 install.
Did you find a solution for this ?
+1 on this request - would like to see native support in NPM for WAAS devices. Anyone have any updates?
Adding my voice to the mix. We have a need of it at my company as well.
WAAS Flow Monitoring is very specific and these flows can be processed only by NetQoS and you will need NetQoS SuperAgent for this. The NetQoS SuperAgent processes the flows received from WAAS FlowAgent (which again was developed by NetQoS) sitting on the WAE. More details in the below link:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/nsite/enterprise/wan/wan_optimization/chap04.html#wp1053045
There is some solutions that does that using API; because Cisco let you do that. SolarWinds should do something like that to a future release.
Has this made it on to the roadmap yet? We also have a large WAAS implementation in our enterprise and would love to be able to view these stats in Solarwinds NPM.
We are currently running WAAS 5.3.3 & NPM 10.6 and currently send traps for things like TFO Overloads, but being able to see connection stats & graph this data would be extremely beneficial.
Thanks.
+1
We have a rather large deployment with current 150 devices and counting.
Would like to see tfo overload, trigger on corespace files found (and action them also, like delete them after x days)
In addition a comparable monitoring of the optimized raw result (how much bandwith saved) to validate the reporting done in WAAS central manager.
