WAAS Reporting

Hi All,
We currently have WAAS deployed in a production network and we are trying to understand the traffic reporting on the WAAS Central Manager.
So when we look at the traffic summary report it shows original traffic over the last hour and optimised traffic over the last hour, does the original traffic mean the amount traffic that has arrived at the WAAS device? and the optimised traffic is what has left the WAAS device? How do i know what percentage was cached/compressed/accelerated?
Also i exported this from a WAE device and im trying to interpret original in and optimised out? can somebody clarify this?
Start Time
End Time
Application Name
Bandwidth Savings(Bytes)
Reduction % (incl. pass-through)
Reduction % (excl. pass-through)
Pass-through Traffic(Bytes)
Application Traffic(Bytes)
Partial Data
Optimized In(Bytes)
Optimized Out(Bytes)
Original In Excluding Pass-Through(Bytes)
Original Out Excluding Pass-Through((Bytes)
06/24/2010 13:55:57
06/24/2010 14:00:58
WAFS
0
0
0
2040
35084
13493
23170
21551
13533
06/24/2010 14:00:58
06/24/2010 14:05:59
WAFS
8046349
91.31
91.33
1920
8809331
288850
474132
8100760
708571
06/24/2010 14:05:59
06/24/2010 14:10:59
WAFS
643144
71.48
71.64
2016
897711
110757
143810
750809
146902
Many Thanks
Kris

I believe that the 'original traffic' indicates the amount of data that would have been sent/needed had the WAAS no been in place. The 'optimised traffic' is the actual amount of data that was sent. The difference in the two numbers is the savings that in bandwidth that the WAAS gave you.

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Hi Harrisson,
Thanks for marking this Answered.
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/nsite/enterprise/wan/wan_optimization/chap04.html#wp1053045
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Hello
As of WAAS 4.4.1 it comes with a WAN optimization MIB CISCO-WAN-OPTIMIZATION-MIB, if you want to use a 3rd party software like Cacti to graph over time.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/docs/app_ntwk_services/waas/waas/v441/configuration/guide/SNMP.html#wp1141055
This MIB provides information about the status and statistics associated with the Application Optimizers.The following objects from this MIB are supported:
•cwoAoStatsIsConfigured
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ASK THE EXPERTS - WAAS MONITORING AND REPORTING

Welcome to the Cisco Networking Professionals Ask the Expert conversation. This is an opportunity to learn about Cisco Wide Area Application Services monitoring and reporting with Michael Holloway and Joe Merrill. Michael is an escalation support engineer in the Application Delivery Business Unit focusing on escalations to engineering related to the Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) product. He has worked with Cisco WAAS since its initial development, and with the first product beta.
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Very good questions. Let me try and take them one at a time. Some of the answers you will likely find in the CM GUI help (upper-left corner is the Help button), or in the online documentation. But let's add a little more color and detail.
1)When we pull bandwidth Optimization report, on Y-Axis the graphs says Effective Capacity .What is Effective Capacity?
Basically, the "effective increased bandwidth capacity" is telling you how much additional WAN bandwidth you've gained because of the optimization. It will chart somewhere between 1 times and 100 times. Typically it charts all traffic, though you can configure it to chart traffic for specific Applications.
The CDM online help gives the formulas used to chart the graph:
Effective WAN Capacity = 1 / (1-% Reduction Excluding Pass-Through)
% Reduction Excluding Pass-Through = (Original Excluding Pass-Through - Optimized) / (Original Excluding Pass-Through)
2)what is reduction % excluding and including passthrough
Looking at the formulas given above might help you understand. The one is a reduction ratio compared to only the original traffic that is optimized. The other is a reduction ratio compared to all original traffic, whether it is optimized or not. So, if you want to know what kind of optimization you are getting for the traffic that you configured to have optimized, look at the "excluding pass-through" numbers. If you want to know the positive effect that optimization is having on your full traffic load, take a look at the "including pass-through" numbers.
3)What is effectivity capacity including and excluding passthrough ?
The effective capacity is what kind of throughput you can potentially realize on the WAN -- assuming you would fill it to 100% capacity -- because of the level of optimization you are seeing. The "including" numbers show you the effect of optimization compared to all the traffic passing through the WAE whether it is optimized or not. The "excluding" numbers show the effect of optimization compared only to the traffic that is receiving optimizations.
4)With the help of which report, we can show the customer that the file download which took 10 mins in first attempt, is downloaded in 10secons in next attempt?
This one is a little trickier. The reports are much broader than a single connection. They are for all traffic, or for traffic that matches specific defined Applications. You could create a separate Application and matching classifiers for the client and/or server IP addresses and/or ports, run the test, then configure the charts to only show you the data for that Application. By default, statistics for an Application aren’t charted unless you check the "Enable Statistics" box when defining/editing the Application.
5)How to show that the bandwidth utilization has decreased by which %.
You want to look at the % reduction numbers you asked about in #2 above.
6)Which report says that the applications have become this much time faster?
These questions are normally put forwarded by many customers ? Can you please help me with your expertise answer ?
This is probably the hardest question to answer.
"Faster" isn't always easy to define. You are probably talking about user experience rather than statistics found in a network device. What determines that experience? A web page fully populating with all the pictures? A CIFS-based application that saves a file? A custom application that collects data from different servers over different protocols to perform some operation? Much of that is subjective and based on multiple individual requests, sometimes over different protocols.
What we can provide are statistics to show the effect of WAN optimization and application acceleration for specific types of traffic. We can't show you that displaying a web page is N times faster with WAAS, because we don't know which of all the many HTTP requests that are made are specific to the user experience. But we can show that each of the requests received so much overall optimization, so much optimization from DRE, so much optimization from LZ, so much added benefit from HTTP acceleration.
What you would probably do is collect some base-line timings for performing certain user activities, then perform the same operations both cold (first pass) and warm (subsequent passes). Back up those timing numbers with reports from the CM GUI, and perhaps even the "show statistics connection connection-id ". Which reports to use? Start with those Optimization and Acceleration reports. Those are the reports we expect will give the most complete/accurate pictures of the benefit of WAAS. You can also create and even schedule custom reports as needed.

Generating Reports in Cisco WAAS

Is it possible to retrospectively gather a report which shows specific traffic going through the waas devciesat a certain time?
If this is possible I can get you the tcp/udp ports and / or server IP's.
The WAAS Central Manager is running on the following version:
Cisco Wide Area Application Services (universal-k9) Software Release 4.4.5 (build b5 Feb 4 2012)
Version: oe512-4.4.5.5

Suggested reading: (Monitoring and Troubleshooting Your WAAS Network)
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/waas/waas/v441/configuration/guide/monitor.html#wp1163958
The Connection Details window contains connection addresses, port information, policy information, and traffic statistics.
You can also Configure the Chart Settings by Time Frame, Last Hour, Last Day, Last Week.
hope that helps!
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Richard,
You will be able to create customized reports or use existing pre-defined reports. As soon as you login to CM you have the WAAS system wide (all WAEs in your network) report which gives you pre-defined graphs. These graphs time frame can be changed from 24hr (default) to weekly, monthly, or hourly bassis by clicking 'Settings' button at the top (located just above the graphs).
If you want to customize the graphs then you can do it by clicking 'Add Chart' button at the top (located in the same row as 'Settings' button ).
Under the 'Monitor' drawer on the left you have more reports / graphs available as well.
With 4.1 release the reporting functions were elegantly enhanced.
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WAAS and Netflow, traffic reports are inflated unpredictably

Not sure if anybody has any luck getting Netflow to report correctly when WAAS is in a picture. We have about 30 sites deployed with WAAS in out of line configuration and every single one of them incorrectly report Netflow traffic to our NetQoS Reporter Analyzer product. Typically the traffic throughput seems to be inflated several times higher. We tried every which way to alter the netflow configuration in the router including Egress Netflow but the traffic is still showing higher than actual traffic coming out of a port. In one site, even the "show interface" command on the router shows 5-minute rate of 16Mbps on a 6Mbps Mulitlink circuit.

Hello Thang Lu,
We have run into this issue with a few customers and here are a some things to consider:
- If you have 'Flexible' NetFlow enabled: Beware, Flexible NetFlow does not export the flow direction by default you must configure the direction bit to be set for egress flows. Traditional NetFlow v9 does this automatically.
- Are you excluding certain protocols in NetQoS? If you don't do this, some tunnels and VPN connections will be exported twice!
These are the protocols we exclude by default in Scrutinizer NetFlow Analyzer:
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