Troubleshooting

This chapter describes how to test that your Traffic Manager installation is working properly, and details the ways to deal with any problems you might encounter.

Tools and Techniques

If you are testing your Traffic Manager configuration, there are a range of tools and techniques you can make use of to understand your configuration, and the behavior of your network traffic:

•Diagnosis: The Cluster Diagnosis page runs a number of tests across your Traffic Manager system, checking network connectivity, health monitors, configuration errors and conflicting configuration.

•Event Log: The Event Log (displayed on the Home Page and the Event Log Page) records any significant events that have occurred.

•Connections: The Connections report gives an instant display of ongoing and recent connections: where they came from, how they were handled, how much data was transferred, etc.

•Request Logging: The Traffic Manager can write full logs so that you can record all the details about each request and response for later analysis.

•Configuration Summary: If you have a sophisticated configuration, the configuration summary describes what configuration objects are in use, and how they are related.

•Audit Log: The Audit Log records all configuration changes; when they were made, which user made them, and where the user came from.

This chapter describes each of these tools and techniques in detail.