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Assign Applications

Traffic classes reported by Packeteer units in your network have names that begin with the configured name of the Packeteer unit in the ReportCenter device record. For example, if you have an office in Amsterdam and an office in Hong Kong, assuming you name Packeteer units after their cities, you might see HTTP traffic reported with traffic class names like:
Amsterdam_/Inbound/HTTP
Amsterdam_/Outbound/HTTP
Hong_Kong_/Inbound/HTTP
Hong_Kong_/Outbound/HTTP

ReportCenter automatically associates HTTP traffic from one site with HTTP traffic from another site, making it possible to combine information about all HTTP traffic classes into a single object called an Application, in this case named HTTP.

Pre-Configured

ReportCenter ships with a pre-configured list of applications that each Packeteer unit knows how to recognize. When a Packeteer unit reports a traffic class to ReportCenter for the first time, a process in ReportCenter looks for any matches between any portion of the traffic class name and any existing Application in the list defined in ReportCenter. So when ReportCenter parses the traffic class name Amsterdam_/Inbound/HTTP it will match with the existing Application name HTTP.

When a match is found the traffic class is assigned to the matched application. In most cases all of the important applications in your network will be automatically assigned to applications.

You can also:
create new Application Names
modify or delete existing Application Names
assign traffic classes to Application Names

Define Application Names

You can modify or delete existing application names, or add new application names, using the Application Names dialog. You might do this, for example, if a new type of application is recognized by your Packeteer unit, but your current ReportCenter installation is not configured to recognize this application.

  1. Click Define > Application Names. The Application Names dialog appears.



  2. Select an Application and then Modify or Delete it, or else click Add and create a new Application Name.

Assign Applications

You can manually assign one or more traffic classes that are reported by one or more Packeteer units to a specific Application Name. The Application Name can be one of those pre-configured in ReportCenter or an Application Name you have added or modified. To assign traffic classes to Applications:

  1. Click Define > Component Configuration. The Component Configuration dialog appears.



  2. Collapse or expand the Network Tree until you see the group or Packeteer unit for which you want to assign Application Names.
  3. Click the desired group or PacketShaper, and scroll the main window if needed until you can select the traffic class(es) you want to assign.
    NOTE: To change applications you must select the traffic class(es) in the right-hand pane.
    You can select multiple Traffic Class components using the mouse left button and the Shift or Control keys.
  4. Click Modify. The Modify Component dialog appears.



  5. Select the Use Specified Application radio button. The drop-down is no longer greyed-out.
  6. Use the drop-down to select the desired Application, then click OK.
  7. Click OK again in the Component Configuration dialog.

PacketGuide™ for ReportCenter Version 3.1