Dashboard

Default Dashboard

The Overview dashboard displays widgets that can help you proactively monitor and troubleshoot your network. The dashboard provides a graphical representation of information related to devices, clients, and network traffic. Depending on the report, the widget represents historical data or a combination of historical and the latest data from shared memory.
Note

Note

Historical data is persistent after system restarts and software upgrades, but not if the system is restored to the factory defaults or from a backup.
ExtremeCloud IQ Controller is installed with a Default dashboard. You can customize the Default dashboard and add additional dashboards with custom layouts and a unique set of widgets. The maximum number of supported dashboards is 10. The free-form dashboard can have a maximum of 10 widgets.
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Default Overview Dashboard
Default Overview Dashboard

Dashboard Widgets

The Overview dashboard widgets are classified according to the type of data they access:
  • Network utilization metrics including top and bottom values for clients, APs, switches, and networks
  • Radio Frequency metrics
  • Switches with top and bottom throughput levels
  • Client distribution and client count for the top and bottom manufacturer, network, and operating system
  • Captive Portal metrics that include details on guests associated with the network and dwell time for each guest
  • Application Visibility metrics categorize applications and application groups by throughput, client count, usage, and unique users
  • System metrics that indicate network health.
  • Troubleshooting that displays packet capture instances.

Combine widgets from any of the categories to create one or more unique dashboards.

Report Duration

From the top of the Dashboard page:
  • Select to set the Duration value for the time period reported. Valid duration values are:
    • Last 3 hours
    • Last 3 days
    • Last 14 days
  • Select to refresh the data on demand.
  • Hover the mouse over a widget to display tool tip information.

Filter by Radio Band

Filter by radio band. Select to display data for a specific radio band.
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Select Radio Bands — Throughput Widget
Select Radio Bands — Throughput Widget
Note

Note

The datasets are sampled at different intervals. Therefore, it is possible that data from the 14-day dataset will not include data from the 3-day dataset or from the 3-hour dataset. It is possible that a new client will not appear in a dataset if the dataset has not been recently updated.