Convenient place to start using NetVizura in your everyday activities is the Dashboard. It is an easy to look, one page overview of your network state.
NetVizura Dashboard includes the following widgets:
- Active Alarms
- Top Interfaces
- All Traffic Overview
- Top Subnet Sets
- Top Services
- Top Conversations
- Top End Users
Most of the widgets require correct setup of All Traffic Pattern. Read more how to check and modify All Traffic Pattern.
You might want to display this Dashboard on the large wall screen in your office. Everyone in the team would be able to spot immediately a new alarm or when atypical network traffic occurs, and in this way improve visibility, collaboration and incidence response time.
Active Alarms
Here you are able to check how many alarms are currently active in your network.
Alarms are presented in real-time, in a donut chart so that you can get an overview about their proportion, as well as in their own cards for you to quickly determine distribution of alarms by severity.
Above screenshot shows 63 currently active alarms, where 24 of them belongs to emergency level, 1 to error, 12 to notice and 26 to debug.
Clicking on the alarm level in the chart or on the card leads to Alarm module where you can see more details and actions.
Read more about Using NetFlow Alarms.
Top Interfaces
With Top Interfaces widget you are able to determine which interfaces "eat" most of the bandwidth in your network. This may help you to better organize/balance your network or to influence budget plan for improvements in your network infrastructure.
Clicking on the chart leads to the All Interface view in NetFlow module, and click on the particular interface in the legend leads to its detailed analysis.
Read more about Interface Traffic.
All Traffic
In All Traffic widget you are able to see total traffic in your network (from all exporters, in all subnets, including internal and external network). It shows three charts - bits/s, packets/s, flows/s so that you can compare them in relation to one another. This enables you to immediately spot if there are any irregularities impacting your entire network (for example, normal bits/s and packets/s charts with increased flows/s chart suggest some kind of network attack).
Clicking on the particular chart or unit in the legend leads to the dedicated chart in the NetFlow module where you can further investigate your network behavior and identify potential causes for concern.
Read more about All Traffic Pattern.
Top Subnet Sets
Subnet Sets widget shows top subnets in your network. To understand how Subnet Sets works, Read more about Subnet Sets. To run Subnet Sets widget within the dashboard you have to configure at least one subnet set.
Clicking on the Subnet Sets chart leads to All Traffic Pattern > Subnet Set distribution, while click on the specific Subnet Set in the legend leads to its detailed analysis.
Read more about Traffic Pattern in Subnet Sets.
Top Services
Here you can see which services are most common in your network. This helps network administrators to better control traffic which passes through the network.
Clicking on the chart leads to All Traffic > Services distribution, and clicking on the specific services additionally highlights it.
Read more about Distribution by Services.
Top Conversations
This widget provides а glimpse on the conversations most involved in your network traffic.
Clicking on the legend (Upload/Download) will lead you to the All Traffic > Conversation distribution, while clicking on the service in the legend will additionally highlight it.
Read more about Distribution by Conversations.
Top End Users
In order to view End Users traffic, you have to configure it first: End User Settings. Top End Users widget enables you to determine which network users are winners in bandwidth consumption.
Clicking on the legend (Upload/Download) leads to All Users overview, whereas clicking on a specific user goes to his/hers detailed analysis.
Read more about All Users Traffic.