Cisco Network Monitoring: 6 Best Practices

Introduction

It's often said that your network is the backbone of your IT infrastructure, underlying every other part of your enterprise IT. If your Cisco network infrastructure goes down or is experiencing performance issues, it's crucial that you have a real-time solution to identify and resolve the problem as soon as possible.         

But what does such a solution look like when it comes to Cisco networks? In this article, we'll discuss six best practices for Cisco network monitoring, network management, and troubleshooting, so that you're always getting the highest network performance possible.

Key Performance Measurements for App Servers: Cause, Impact, and Resolution

Below are some of the key metrics that need to be monitored during performance testing:

  • CPU utilization
  • Heap memory utilization
  • Number of active/daemon threads
  • Number of classes loaded
  • Server page faults/second
  • Cache hit ratio
  • Active total sessions
  • SSL transactions/second
  • Active/total DB pool connections
  • Application log
  • Load balancing
  • Requests/second

Let's take a look at some of the causes of negative impacts on performance testing and some quick resolutions that will help smooth everything out.