Tealeaf administrators who are also monitoring the CX Passive Capture Application and its host can use the following information to access monitoring tools and methods for the PCA.
Network traffic
Many PCA-related issues can be identified by monitoring the network traffic into and out of the PCA. At the command line, you can use the Linux™ utility tcpdump to perform many of these monitoring tasks.
Reports generated by tcpdump are best reviewed through a viewer such as Wireshark.
For more information, see http://www.wireshark.org.
PCA
The CX Passive Capture Application provides a variety of useful data on capture activities through the PCA Web Console.
- On the Summary page, you can review basic summary information about the capture process, as well as enable or disable the capture process.
- In the Statistics page, you can review configuration and resource usage information for the capture software processes and metrics on PCA performance.
Additional PCA information is available through the Tealeaf Status report.
Statistics logs from PCA can be converted to .csv or Excel files in .xml format using the stats2csv script in the PCA installation.
Capture status
You can monitor capture status through TMS and system statistics.
Through TMS, you can monitor statistical information on the socket capture process for each pipeline in your environment.
- To access TMS, select System > TMS from the Portal menu.
- In the Pipeline Status tab, you can see the active connections, byte transfer rates, and page views as currently sampled in the pipeline data.
- You can also review how the data is passed through each session agent in the pipeline.
Optionally, the PCA can be configured to send statistics hits through the Windows pipeline for insertion into the Statistics database. These hits include useful statistical information, as displayed in the Statistics tab.