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Optimizing Applications on Cisco Networks
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Optimizing Applications on Cisco Networks

by Mike Hicks
November 2004
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
10h 1m
English
Cisco Press
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Chapter 9. Proactive Planning

This chapter includes the following topics:

  • Baselining performance levels

  • The dynamic enterprise

  • Diagnosing problems

  • Validating changes

  • Enabling technologies

  • Scenario modeling

  • Capacity planning

  • Reviewing SLAs

  • End-to-end delivery

Networking is dynamic. Things will change, including software versions and usage levels. For application monitoring to be effective, businesses must first define their performance objectives (acceptable response time limits) for each application transaction type. Proactive planning ensures maintenance of the delivery criteria required of business-critical applications. (That is, application response times will be maintained as user numbers increase.)

This chapter begins by discussing aspects of proactive ...

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