Cisco WAAS and Content Switching Module compatiblity

We are planning to implement WAAS on our hub's 6500 core switches, so that TCP connections from the end sites users to the servers in the hub can be optimized. But we have the servers VLAN groups under the Cisco CSM module already. Are the client-server connections still able to be optimized by WAAS?

Hi Joe
let's seperate out the two topics here.
a) WAAS traffic interception with wccp
b) CSM
a) when you say vlan 200 is where target servers are connected, is that the CSM client side vlan? or the actual server vlan ?
the bottom line is you need to make sure the interface where you configure "ip wccp 61 redirect in" is recieving traffic from servers towards .
Good reference for WCCP best practices in 6500
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps708/white_paper_c11-629052.html
b) yes you can configure stickiness for session persistance as in below URL
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/interfaces_modules/services_modules/csm/4.2.x/configuration/guide/addftrs.html
Thanks

Similar Messages

CSM-Content Switching Module

Hi All,
How to shutdown Content Switching Module in Cat 6500 switches ? I want to shutdown only CSM-Module without disturbing Chassis.
Can anyone please send me the command on that ?
Highly appreciate your valuable reply.
Thanks,

Hi,
Assuming you are using IOS, you can power-down a module in a 6500 chassis using the command
"no power enable module " in global config mode where is the slot number of the CSM.
If you are using CatOS then the command would be:
"set module power down "
The CSM should be hot-swappable so you should be able to just pull it out of the chassis, but I think that is a bit vicious if you only want to shut it down.
HTH
Cathy

Citrix and Content Switches

I'm curious if anyone is using the Cisco Content switches to load balance traffic/sessions across a citrix server farm. Any luck and what type of load balancing method did you use? Round robin? Response time? And do these methods REALLY work with Citrix applications/servers for appropriate load balancing?

I just load balanced two Citrix servers using Cisco CSS11150 load balancing switches. Because Citrix uses login for each user, load balancing required stickyness. I load balanced using cookies. This works great. You need to configure the cookie string in the service. You need to configure prefix and length in the content rule. There are several ways to load balance using cookies. The server needs to set the cookie in the first reply back to the client.
[email protected]

The difference of the IEEE802.1x Auth between Cisco Routers and Catalyst switches

Hello
I am investigating the difference of the IEEE802.1x Auth between Routers and Switches.
Basically dot1x auth is availlable on Catalyst Switches. however if I want to check to
PortBased Multi-Auth , MAC address Auth and any certification Auth with this feature,
Is it possible to integrate into Cisco Router such as Cisco 891F ?
In my opinion Cisco891F is also available to use basic IEEE802.1x but if it compares with Catalyst switches such as Cat3560X
I think there might be any unsupported feature on Cisco 891F.
I appreciate any information. thank you very much in advance.
Best Regards,
Masanobu Hiyoshi

Many time in interviews asked comaprison between cisco routers and switches that i was answerless bcoz i dont have much knowledge about that.Can anyone provide me the compariosin sheet of the same.how are the cisco devices differ with each other how much Bandwidth each routres support and Etc...
Ummmm ... The most common question I get is "what is the difference between a router and a switch".
However, if you get a question like this, then my impression to this line of questioning are:
1. The candidate they are looking for has in-depth knowledge of routers and switches. And I mean IN-DEPTH!;
2. They are not looking for a candidate. They just want to stroke their ego. There is not alot of people who can give you the "names and numbers" of routers and switches at a snap of a finger. And if you do happen to know the answer, then and there, then expect a tougher follow-up question.

Tabs and content switcher

We're using a lower version of adf (10g) and using uix. Anybody here who has a sample of using tabs with content switcher.
Basically I want to have 2 fixed tabs and when I click a tab, the content is shown in the same page. The content of the
page basically consists of just read-only VO table..
Appreciate any help.
Thanks!

Hi SarahShay,
You could use JavaScript client object model to retrieve blog posts. You could use the getItemById(id) function to return a single item, or use the getItems(query) function to return multiple items.
An official documentation:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/hh185007(v=office.14).aspx
A similar post:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointdev/archive/2011/07/19/working-with-the-ecmascript-client-object-model-jsom-in-sharepoint-2010-part-3-nikhil-sachdeva.aspx
Best Regards,
Dean Wang
TechNet Community Support
Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help, and unmark the answers if they provide no help. If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact
[email protected]

Buffer Misses on Cisco 2970 and 2950 switches

Hi,
I am seeing a lot of big buffer misses, some small buffer misses and medium buffer misses on our 2970 and 2950 switches. I'm seeing this on most of our switches (about 10 of them). I've searched the forum and docs and only found info relating to routers. Anybody know what these errors mean and how to troubleshoot them for switches? Thanks in advance.

One common reason for this in 2950 switches is due to flooded traffic. Plug in a sniffer in promiscous mode and check for any broadcast/multicast/unknown unicast flooded traffic.

How often should the Cisco 6509 and 3750 switches be rebooted? Does Cisco have a best practice recommendation?

How often should the 6509's and 3750's switches be rebooted?
Does Cisco have a best practice document on this and recommendation how long the switch should be up before it gets rebooted?
Why is a reboot needed if there are no indications of issues on the log?

I'd agree with Larry here.
If you're not seeing any issues with your IOS revision and there are no relevant PSIRTs (security notices applicalble to features and or exposure of your device requiring an IOS upgrade) then you can go a very long time without rebooting, if ever.
I'm sure it's far from a record, but our corporate distribution router that supports >1000 downstream devices day in and day out has never been rebooted since installation just over 5 years ago. I have a top of rack Layer 2 switch (2900 series running CatOS) that's almost at 10 years.
That said, you should have some monitoring scheme that assures you everything is healthy. But as long as memory and cpu are happy, the device will run forever.

SSH Configuration in Cisco 3700 and 2960 switches

Dear All,
I have couple of Cisco switches i need to allow some particular ip address for accessing switches through SSH
below is the user ip address details , Kindly help me for a configuring SSH in below listed ip address
user ip address
==========
172.188.50.7
172.188.51.7
172.188.7.222
172.188.100.7
172.188.101.7
172.16.2.222
172.16.1.6
Switch ip address
=============
1. 172.16.9.1
2. 172.16.9.2
3. 172.16.9.3
4. 172.16.9.4
Waiting for the reply
Regards
Muhammed

Please refer this doc for configuring ssh .
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security-vpn/secure-shell-ssh/4145-ssh.html
Define these ip address in a access-list and call that access-class into line vty .
Regards
PrajithTR

Vlan routing with cisco router and linksys switch

I have a linksys switch width vlan configured, connected to a Cisco router (1841), but I cant route between vlans.
Please help me!!
It Works with a Cisco switch perfectly(with the same ip and vlan).

Yes. the linksys switch (SRW2024 24-Port 10/100/1000 Gigabit Switch) supports trunking.
If you want you can visit the link and see that the switch supports vlan, dot1q and trunking.
http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?childpagename=US%2FLayout&packedargs=c%3DL_Product_C2%26cid%3D1123638180432&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper

Ciscoview device manager for content switch module not available for download ?

Hi,
On Cisco support site CVDM is no longer available for download despite that warning message says it won't be available since February due to migration to another server. Any idea where to get it for my CSS11501 ?
Cheers
Arun

If you use the old link:
http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/css11500-crypto
You'll get redirected to CVDM for the CSS11506. It's the same CVDM software as the CSS11501 and CSS11503. Don't know why only the CSS11501 link is broken.

Ciscoworks LMS and 2800 Switch Module Ports

We have a number of 2800 router on our network that have NM-16ESW= 16 port Ethernet modules installed. These are used to connect PCs and phones.
Everytime one of these ports goes down, usually due to a PC being powered down, we receive a critical alert in Ciscoworks.
The ports are configured not to log or send snmp traps.
no logging event link-status
no snmp trap link-status
How can we stop these alerts being generated?

Most likely LMS is polling the interfaces. By default, interfaces that are up when the device was discovered are managed. You can unmanage interfaces by editing the device properties in LMS.

Cisco 2611xm and NM-32a module - HELP

I have a question my 2611xm using Access-Server(config)#do sh run
version 12.3
hostname Access-Server
boot-start-marker
boot-end-marker
enable secret xxx
memory-size iomem 10
no network-clock-participate no network-clock-participate no aaa new-model
ip subnet-zero
ip host Router1 2033 172.21.1.1
ip host Router2 2034 172.21.1.1
ip host Router3 2035 172.21.1.1
ip host Router4 2035 172.21.1.1
ip host Router5 2036 172.21.1.1
username cisco password 0 cisco
interface Loopback1
ip address 172.21.1.1 interface FastEthernet0/0
ip address 139.x.x.50 duplex auto
speed auto
line con 0
line 33 64
transport input telnet
flowcontrol hardware
line aux 0
line vty 0 4
password cisco
login
Access-Server#sh line
Tty Typ Tx/Rx * 0 CTY * 33 TTY 9600/9600 - - * 34 TTY 9600/9600 - - * 35 TTY 9600/9600 - - * 36 TTY 9600/9600 - - * 37 TTY 9600/9600 - - 38 TTY 9600/9600 - - 39 TTY 9600/9600 - - 40 TTY 9600/9600 - - 41 TTY 9600/9600 - - 42 TTY 9600/9600 - - 43 TTY 9600/9600 - - 44 TTY 9600/9600 - - 45 TTY 9600/9600 - - 46 TTY 9600/9600 - - 47 TTY 9600/9600 - - 48 TTY 9600/9600 - - 49 TTY 9600/9600 - - 50 TTY 9600/9600 - - 51 TTY 9600/9600 - - 52 TTY 9600/9600 - - 53 TTY 9600/9600 - - 54 TTY 9600/9600 - - I'm not sure if it difficult or not. I have a NM-32a in
IOS version: 2600-jk9s-mz.123-24.b. The problem is that I cannot setup the 2611xm to connect to my other cisco devices. I have read Cisco's Configuring a Terminal / Comm server (Doc ID:5466) and it has not helped me I still can't connect any of the devices. Any idea?
slot 1
wic 0
255.255.255.0
255.255.255.0
A Modem Roty AccO AccI Uses Noise Overruns Int
- - - - - 2 0 0/0 -
- - - 0 48 52/158 -
- - - 1 25 53/164 -
- - - 0 88 8/26 -
- - - 0 13 17/54 -
- - - 1 0 0/0 -
- - - 2 0 0/0 -
- - - 0 11 12/37 -
- - - 0 11 19/59 -
- - - 0 17 27/82 -
- - - 0 37 36/110 -
- - - 0 0 0/0 -
- - - 0 23 0/0 -
- - - 0 0 0/0 -
- - - 0 0 0/0 -
- - - 0 27 0/0 -
- - - 0 0 0/0 -
- - - 0 11 0/0 -
- - - 0 1 0/3 -
- - - 0 0 0/0 -
- - - 0 0 0/0 -
- - - 0 0 0/0 -
- - - 0 0 0/0 -

Please check the link below:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps1835/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a00800ca7d5.html
Hope this helps you on your way.
regards,
Leo

Content Switching Module (CSM): Sessions stuck in closing state

Hi guys,
I'm troubleshooting a CSM with 4.3(1).
We migrated a real server from windows to linux, since then lot's of sessions stuck in closing state until the idle timer expires.
I traced the traffic from the client to the csm and from the csm to the real server what I saw is the following behaviour at the end of a session:
windows real server: client sends FIN -> real server acks the FIN -> real server sends FIN -> client sends RST -> real server sends RST -> CSM deletes session from session table
The linux real server mostly behaves like the windows real server but sometimes behaves as follows:
client sends FIN -> real server sends FIN, but does not ack the FIN sequence number of the client -> real server sends RST -> client sends RST -> CSM does not delete session from session table, it stucks in closing state
Does anybody know how I can solve this problem of half-closed sessions other than decreasing the idle timeout?
Is it possible to configure CSM to close and delete sessions not only on FIN-ACK packets but also on RST packets?
Or to use a different fast idle timeout when sessions are half-closed?
Many thanks in advance,
Thorsten

Hi Fabrizio,
CSM_FAST_FIN_TIMEOUT is already set to 10 seconds.
What I found out while testing is that CSM_FAST_FIN_TIMEOUT works with configurations where idle timeout is configured > 0.
But when idle timeout is configured to 0 (what meas no idle timeout) the csm seems not to use CSM_FAST_FIN_TIMEOUT: Half closed sessions will stuck in closing state.
Any idea why cms behaves this way?
Regards,
Thorsten

CSM(content switching module) supports the 2 tier server load balance ?

hi everyone,
Does any know the CSM support 2 tier server load balance ?
this means that CSM perform the server load balance for servers and the same servers require another time Server load balance. In the other word,
the CSM supports server port and client port for server load balance ?
thanks
fred.

Hi, this seems to describe a typical case of multi-tier design where the CSM needs to handle 2 types of connections:
1. clients->CSM->serverfarm1
2. serverfarm1->CSM->serverfarm2
We usually refer to the second type of connections as server-to-server load balanced traffic.
There is no problem in handling that scenario with the CSM and you have a few options.
In particular, each virtual server on the CSM can be configured to only accept incoming connections from a specific VLAN, so you can use that as an additional security measure or to distinguish connections based on which VLAN they come in from.
If you want to, you could even configure the CSM with 2 virtual servers with the same exact virtual IP and L4 port, but listening on 2 separate VLANs (the client-side VLAN and serverfarm1 VLAN) and use a different server farm based on that.
One important thing to keep in mind when handling server-to-server load balanced connections: if serverfarm1 and serverfarm2 are on the same VLAN, you have to configure "client NAT" for the server-to-server connections, to force the return traffic back to the CSM.

Multiple context on Cisco Content Switching

Hi Everyone
I had new case with Cisco Content Switching design. The current network has two Cisco Content Module (CSM) and each of them response for switching content on one Vlan.
Now i want to reconfigure it, to meet the redundancy requirement. But i don't know Cisco Content Module have same idea of design with ACE on Route Mode.
I want configure CSM with two or more vlan pair in routed mode and it can HA between each other.
Thanks
Phai La Quy

Hi Phai,
Yes you can configure CSM in routed mode with clients in one VLAN and server in another. Pasting the link for your reference. You can find more in routing and switching guide.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/interfaces-modules/content-switching-module/26220-csm-config.html
Regards,
Kanwal

Cisco WAAS and Content Switching Module compatiblity

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for