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Viewing Connection Pooling Reports
The Connection Pooling report summarizes the current pool of connections to peer appliances.
For details about operating report controls, see Overview.
The Connection Pooling report contains this table of statistics that summarize connection pooling activity.
Field
Description
Total Requests
Specifies the total number of requests for connections to peer appliances.
Total Hits
Specifies the total number of successful connections and connections that are serviced by already existing inner channel connections.
Connection Pool hits (Connections)
Specifies the total number of successful connections and connections that are serviced by already existing inner channel connections.
The connection pool holds many idle TCP connections up to the maximum pool size. When a client requests a new connection to a previously visited server, the pool manager checks the pool for unused connections, returns one if available, and then replenishes the pool with another idle connection.
What This Report Tells You
The Connection Pooling report answers these questions:
•  How large is the pool of connections?
•  How many connections occurred?
About Report Graphs
Use the mouse to hover over a specific data point to see the y values and exact time stamp were in relation to peaks.
About Report Data
The Riverbed system reports on performance for periods up to one month. Due to performance and disk space considerations, the display granularity decreases with time passed since the data was sampled.
For detailed information about data grouping, see Data Grouping.
To view the Connection Pooling report
1. Choose Reports > Networking: Connection Pooling to display the Connection Pooling page.
Figure: Connection Pooling Report
2. Use the controls to customize the report as described in this table.
Control
Description
Time Interval
Select a report time interval of 1 hour (1h), 1 day (1d), 1 week (1w), 30 days (30d), yesterday, last week, or last month.
Time intervals that do not apply to a particular report are dimmed.
For a custom time interval, enter the start time and end time using the format YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS.
You can quickly see the newest data and see data points as they are added to the chart dynamically. To display the newest data, click Show newest data.
Group
Select the group from the drop-down list.
Note: For detailed information about exporting statistics, see Exporting Statistics.