Predefined Dashboard Categories

Viewing the list of predefined dashboard categories

In the Reporting toolbar at the left of the window, click the icon and select the Manage function. The list of predefined dashboard categories is displayed.

• 1 Governance dashboards provide information such as access congestion, application distribution, capacity planning and enable you to study the interaction between the SD-WAN Orchestrator and your network. These dashboards are designed for long-term decision-making by management.
• 2 General Reporting dashboards provide an overview of your main applications and sites.
• 3 Usage and Performance dashboards display low-level object indicators enabling troubleshooting.
• 4 Supervision dashboards enable you to monitor the appliance infrastructure.

Displaying a dashboard

From the Dashboard List

Select the dashboard from the right category in the list.

You can also filter that list by

• using tags in order to limit your selection choice. For example, if you select the Sites filter, only the dashboards displaying Site information are listed,

• typing the name of the dashboard in the Search field at the very top of the window. Again, the list adjusts to your request.

Finally, click the appropriate dashboard name to display the dashboard.

From a specific dashboard

• Click the first element of the dashboard title to display the list of dashboards in the same category. For example, in 'General Reporting / Overview', click 'General Reporting'.
• Click the second element of the dashboard title, i.e. 'Overview' to display the list of dashboard categories.
• In any case, use 'Go to Folder' to navigate.

Meaning of some symbols and metrics

Here is a definition of the symbols and specific metrics that are used in the dashboards.  For a definition of the standard metrics, such as EQS, Delay, Jitter, packet Loss, RTT, SRT, TCP retransmission, etc., refer to "Application Flows - Detailed flows list"

LAN=>WAN

LAN=>WAN represents the direction of the flow(s) in relation to the selected Site, i.e. coming from its LAN and going to its WAN (alias ingress or outbound or upload)

WAN=>LAN

WAN=>LAN represents the direction of the flow(s) in relation to the selected Site, i.e. coming from its WAN and going to its LAN (alias egress or inbound or download)

Session

A session is identified:

• For TCP or UDP by the following parameters: source IP address, destination IP address, protocol (TCP or UDP), source port and destination port.
• For other protocols over IP (for example: ICMP) by the following parameters: source IP address, destination IP address, protocol.

MOS (1 to 5)

LAN and WAN Metrics

Reporting dashboards contain graphs and tables displaying both application and network information.

As a general rule,

• the metrics in graphs and tables related to applications are LAN metrics
• the metrics in graphs and tables related to networks are WAN metrics

For this reason, the volumes provided in the dashboards with both application and network data are calculated differently according to whether they are LAN side metrics or WAN side metrics.