Install your Exinda Appliance

• If you are using a Exinda Appliance hardware box, refer to Installing the Hardware Appliance into the Network.
• Installing a Exinda Virtual Appliance depends on the hypervisor it supports, refer to Overview of the Virtual Appliances for installation instructions on supported hypervisors.

Start monitoring the traffic

Start monitoring the traffic that passes through your Exinda Appliance. For more information refer to Monitoring your network.

If you are looking to monitor particular traffic patterns or usage, you can configure objects to support this.

• Create network objects to monitor the traffic usage of branches, departments, classes of devices etc. A network objecta logical definition created and stored in the Exinda lilbrary, can represent any network component can include one or more subnets and one or more IP addresses. For more information refer to Adding network objects .
• Configure active directory to identify traffic usage of users on the network. For more information refer to Integrate with Active Directory.
• Create an application object if a new or custom application is not identified by the system. For more information refer to Adding application objects.

Configure Traffic Policy

Configuring traffic policy requires a bit of setup, however, the simplest solution is to run the Optimizer Policy Wizard. By answering a few questions in the wizard, the system then sets up a traffic policy that effectively controls the general traffic scenarios. See Optimizer Policy Tree to understand how the policy configuration works.

You can also customize the traffic policy and have multiple policies in place to match your requirements. For more information refer to Policies overview.

Create alerts and application performance monitors

Set alerts on various aspects of the traffic. You can monitor the user experience of particular applications and set an alert when the user experience becomes poor. You can monitor the availability of a site by pinging the IP address and define an alert when the latency exceeds your specified threshold or when the packet loss is severe. You can monitor for particular activity that may indicate an issue, such as asymmetric route detection, maximum accelerated connections exceeded, NIC collisions, or dropped packets, and so on.

• To monitor the user experience of particular applications, create an Application Performance Score object.
• To monitor a particular IP address for availability, create an Site Service Level Agreements object.
• The alerts are sent by email assuming the appliance is configured to send e-mail. For more information refer to Email configuration.

Find solutions and get notified

The Exinda appliance displays solutions and notifies you if certain undesirable thresholds are exceeded or if other notable traffic patterns are identified so that you can take action to tune your network.

• For more information refer to Monitoring applications with the Exinda Solution Center .
• For more information refer to Alerts.

Control and accelerate traffic accordingly

Go back and tune traffic policy to control and accelerate traffic to ensure business critical traffic is ensured the bandwidth that is needed, and that the traffic is prioritized and accelerated properly.