Content Flow Monitor addresses those needs for the medium and large enterprises. For these reasons, Content Flow Monitor was added to the CiscoWorks2000 product family. Given its value in assisting network managers in the campus network environment, Content Flow Monitor is bundled with the LAN Management Solution as an essential management tool for Cisco server load-balancing devices. A. Content Flow Monitor is fully integrated with the CiscoWorks2000 management server. FDAs are packet redirectors that forward packets based on instructions from the FMAs.
Real servers are various physical platforms that deliver actual services and applications.
Virtual servers are logical entities that represent a server farm with a single, virtual IP address. SLB networking devices that do not conform to Cisco ContentFlow Architecture will be neither discovered nor supported by Content Flow Monitor. Starting in Content Flow Monitor 1.1, real-time statistics graphing is offered for virtual and real servers. Users can easily monitor the number of connections and packets in any given time interval. Furthermore, Content Flow Monitor 1.1 can be used to monitor real-time traffic distribution among real servers.