Points to Note for Application Intelligence

Point to note when configuring Application Intelligence:

  1. For a monitoring domain, the following application can be configured only once, and all these applications must be configured in a single monitoring session.
    1. Application Visualization
    2. Application Filtering
    3. Application Metadata
  2. For GigaVUE V Series Node version lesser than 6.3.00, Application Visualization, Application Filtering, Application Metadata, and Application Metadata Exporter (AMX) applications are not supported in the Monitoring Session.
  3. When undeploying and redeploying the Monitoring session which has the Application Intelligence application, ensure to follow the steps given below:
    1. Go to Traffic > Virtual > Orchestrated Flows and select your cloud platform. The Monitoring Sessions page appears. Select the Monitoring Session for which you enabled Secure Tunnels. Click Actions > Undeploy. The monitoring session is undeployed.
    2. Select the Monitoring Session for which you enabled Secure Tunnels. Click Actions > Edit. The Edit Monitoring Session Canvas page appears.
    3. Add the Application Intelligence applications.
    4. Modify the Number of Flows as per the below table:
        Cloud Platform

      Instance Size

      Maximum Number of Flows

      VMware

      Large (8 vCPU and 16GB RAM)

      200k

      AWS

      AMD - Large (c5n.2xlarge)

      300k

      AMD - Medium (t3a.xlarge)

      100k

      ARM - Large (c7gn.2xlarge)

      100k

      ARM - Medium (m7g.xlarge)200k

      Azure

      Large (Standard_D8s_V4)

      500k

      Medium (Standard_D4s_v4)

      100k

      Nutanix

      Large (8 vCPU and 16GB RAM)

      200k

      ■  Medium Form Factor is supported for VMware ESXi only when secure tunnels option is disabled. The maximum Number of Flows for VMware ESXi when using a medium Form Factor is 50k..
      ■  If the rate of unique UDP sessions per second exceeds the threshold—calculated as maximum number of flows per second divided by the UDP timeout value—the system may fail to classify applications correctly. In such cases, AFI may not filter packets accurately, resulting in incorrect packet passes or drops. However, this limitation does not apply to DNS flows.
    5. Click Deploy.
  4. After adding the above-listed applications and deploying the Monitoring Session, you cannot edit the Number of flows and Fast Mode. For more detailed information on Number of flows and Fast Mode, refer to Number of Flows and Fast Mode.
  5. Once the Number of flows is added in any of the above-listed applications, the same value is applied to all the above-listed applications configured in that Monitoring Session. You cannot change it.
  6. Once Fast Mode is enabled in any of the above-listed applications, then it is enabled for all the above-listed applications configured in that Monitoring Session. You cannot change it.
  7. You can also configure Application Intelligence with Precryption, prefiltering, and secure tunnels. Refer to Precryption, Prefiltering, and Secure Tunnels topics in the respective cloud deployment guides for more detailed information on how to configure these features.
  8. Small Form Factor for VMware ESXi is not supported when using applications like Application Visualization, Application Metadata, Application Filtering. Refer to Configure GigaVUE V Series Nodes for VMware ESXi more detailed information on how to deploy GigaVUE V Series Node, where you select the Form Factor.