Optimizing Applications on Cisco Networks

Chapter 3. Detailing the Business Transaction

This chapter includes the following topics:

• Understanding profiling terminology

• Classifying applications

• Profiling methodology

• Baseline overview

• The new application

• The deployed application

• Optimizing the application

• Verifying application delivery

Before considering application optimization, you have to be able to understand what it is you are dealing with. Consider stocking up for a big family meal. The first thing you have to do is pay a visit to your cupboards to see what you have in stock before you can make a judgment on what it is you need to replace or replenish. You would not consider going out and blindly buying up goods, because it would be wasteful, and in all honesty, inefficient. When you optimize ...