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. Critical configuration characteristics are automatically gathered and presented to users by Content Flow Monitor. It does not provide device configuration capability in the current release. The Content Flow Monitor server runs on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Solaris 2.7. The Content Flow Monitor browser client runs on any platform supported by Netscape 4.61 or 4.7 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.01.