Application Delivery Management

WAN Insight

The Citrix SD-WAN WAN optimization (WO) appliances optimize the delivery of many applications through the WAN, by improving the efficiency of data flow across the network between the data center and the branch sites.

WAN Insight analytics enable administrators to easily monitor the accelerated and unaccelerated WAN traffic that flows between the data center and branch WAN optimization appliances. WAN Insight provides visibility into clients, applications, and branches on the network, to help troubleshoot network issues effectively. Live and historical reports enable you to proactively address issues, if any.

Enabling analytics on the data center WAN optimization appliance enables the Citrix ADM to collect data and provide reports and statistics for the data center and the branch WAN optimization appliances.

Wan insight

To enable analytics on the WAN optimization appliance:

  1. Navigate to Networks > Instances > Citrix SD-WAN, and select the SD-WAN WO instance.  

    SD wan instance

  2. From the Select Action list, select Configure Analytics.

  3. Select the following parameters as required:

    Geo data collection for HDX Insight: Shares client IP address with the Google Geo API.

    AppFlow: Starts collecting data from WAN optimization instances.

    • TCP and WANOpt: Provides TCP and WANOpt Insight reports.

    • HDX: Provides HDX Insight reports.

    • TCP only for HDX: Provides TCP only for HDX Insight reports.

      Select parameters

  4. Click OK.

To view WAN Insight reports:

  1. Navigate to Analytics > WAN Insight.

    Note

    The WAN Insight option is visible only after you add an SD-WAN WO instance to Citrix ADM.

You can view the following reports:

  • Applications - Displays the usage and performance statistics of all the applications for the selected duration.

  • Branches - Displays the usage and performance statistics of all the WAN optimization branch appliances.

  • Clients - Displays the usage and performance statistics of all the clients accessing the WAN optimization appliances, in each branch.

    Reports

The following metrics are displayed:

Metric Description
Active Accelerated Connections Number of active WAN connections that are accelerated.
Active Unaccelerated Connections Number of active WAN connections that are not accelerated.
WAN Latency Delay, in milliseconds, that the user experiences while interacting with an application.
Compression Ratio Ratio of data compression between the branch office and data center appliances for the selected duration.
Packets Sent Number of packets that the WAN optimization appliance has sent over the network for the selected duration.
Packets Received Number of packets that the WAN optimization appliance has received from the network for the selected duration.
Bytes Sent over WAN Number of bytes that the Citrix WAN optimization appliance has sent over the WAN for the selected duration.
Bytes Received over WAN Number of bytes that the WAN optimization appliance received from the WAN for the selected duration.
LAN RTO Number of times the WAN optimization appliance has timed out retransmission to the LAN for the selected duration.
WAN RTO Number of times the WAN optimization appliance has timed out retransmission to the WAN for the selected duration.
Retransmit Packets (LAN) Number of packets the WAN optimization appliance has retransmitted to the LAN network for the selected duration.
Retransmit Packets (WAN) Number of packets the WAN optimization appliance has retransmitted to the WAN network for the selected duration.
WAN Insight