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Monitor Devices for Summary Information

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To monitor a Versa Operating SystemTM (VOSTM) device:

  1. In Director view:
    1. Select the Configuration tab in the top menu bar.
    2. Select Devices > Devices in the horizontal menu bar.
    3. Select a device in the main pane. The view changes to Appliance view.
  2. Select the Monitor tab in the top menu bar.
  3. Select the provider organization in the left menu bar.

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The Summary dashboard displays the following information:

  • Device information—Device name, location, and access status.
  • CPE Interfaces—Traffic across interfaces.
  • SD-WAN Application Traffic—Real-time traffic monitoring of ingress/egress traffic over multiple ports.
  • Recent Events—Alarms generated on the device.
  • Health Monitor—Summary of the network connectivity and device status of the associated Director node.
  • Policy Violations—Traffic violations that have occurred for a device in the organization.
  • Application Activity—Top 10 most utilized applications on the device. You can display the remaining applications in the detailed view.

Device Information

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The top bar displays the device name, location, and status.

CPE Interfaces

The CPE Interfaces pane displays a live graph that shows the live traffic bandwidth on multiple ports either for all traffic or only SD-WAN traffic. Data traffic is fetched from the device every two seconds.

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The dashboard displays:

  • Interface name
  • Network name
  • Service provider
  • Status of the link and cloud reachability.
  • Live data indicator—When enabled, live traffic is show
  • Bandwidth—Configured and measured, in Mbps

To measure bandwidth:

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  1. Click Measure (on the CPE Interfaces screen) to view the uplink and downlink bandwidth.
  2. Select the remote destination.
  3. Select the remote circuit.
  4. Click Request.

To display bandwidth details, click the eye-icon.png Eye icon that is before the Measure button on the CPE Interfaces screen:

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To display interface details, click the eye-icon.png Eye icon that is next to the interface name on the CPE Interfaces screen:

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SD-WAN Application Traffic

Monitoring live application and rule traffic allows you to display any priority application traffic terminating on any access circuits at a site. It also allows you to select the remote branch or remote circuits for the rule or application. This pane displays the SD-WAN application traffic (uplink and downlink) for the selected remote branch, circuits, and rule.

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To filter the SD-WAN application traffic, click the Filter button. The SD-WAN Application Traffic panel displays.

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  1. Click tx and rx of the required circuits to view the incoming and outgoing traffic.
  2. Select a remote branch from the Remote Branch list.
  3. Click Show Remote Circuits to view the remote circuits.
  4. Select a rule from the Rules list. Rules determine the type of traffic allowed between branches for a given application, such as FTP and HTTP. There can be different rules for different applications.
  5. Click OK.

Recent Events

The Recent Events pane summarizes all alarms for a customer organizations and its devices, displaying alarms by severity levels—critical, major, minor, indeterminate, and warning.

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Click the details.png Detail button to view event details.

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Click the back.png Back button to go back to the tile view.

Click a device name to display device-specific events.

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Click the Eye icon.png Eye icon in the Handling State column on the Events screen to assign tasks. Alternatively, select the check box corresponding to a device record and click the handle-assign-icon.png Handle/Assign icon on the top right menu bar to assign tasks.

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To assign a task:

  1. Enter the event description.
  2. Select the alarm state:
    • Acknowledge
    • Close
    • Investigation
    • None
    • Observation
  3. Select the Assignee (Operator or Administrator).
  4. Click Submit.

Health Monitor

The Health Monitor pane displays a summary of a device associated in the customer organization.

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This screen automatically refreshes every 30 seconds. To disable auto-refresh, click Autorefresh.

This pane displays the following parameters:

  • Configuration sync status—Number of VOS devices whose configurations are in sync with the Director node’s configuration.
  • Reachability status—Number of VOS devices reachable via ping or SSH from the Director node.
  • Service status—Number of VOS devices whose services are running in a good state.
  • Interfaces—Number of VOS device LAN and WAN interfaces whose status is up and down.
  • BGP adjacencies—Number of BGP adjacencies in the established, connect, and idle state.
  • IKE status—Number of IKE connections in the up and down state.
  • Paths—Number of paths in the up and down state.

Click Interfaces to display the health status of each interface.


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Policy Violations


The Policy Violations pane displays the total number of packets that have violated a device policy.

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Application Activity

The Application Activity pane provides a visual representation of the top 10 utilized applications on the device, selected based on the following parameters:

  • Sessions
  • Transactions
  • Total Bytes Forward
  • Total Bytes Reverse

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Click the settings.png Settings icon and select a parameter. The graph refreshes to display real-time statistics for the applications.

Click the Details button to view more information (number of sessions, transactions, packets forwarded, packets reversed, etc.) of each application.

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Shell

Click Shell to display a shell screen:

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The shell screen displays:

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Configuration Status

Click Configuration Status.

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Sync To

Click Config Status > Sync To to synchronize the actual device settings with the settings in the application.

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Click Yes to synchronize the settings.

Sync From

Click Config Status > Sync From to derive the configuration settings from the device and synchronize it in the application.

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Click Yes.

Compare

Click Config Status > Compare to compare the configuration settings of the device in the system with the actual device settings.

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Upgrade

Click the upgrade.png Upgrade button to upgrade the device to a specific software release.

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To upgrade a VOS device:

  1. Select the release package name from the list.
  2. Click Upload Only to upload the package, not upgrade the device.
  3. Click OK.

Subscription

Click the subscription.png Subscription button and select the type of subscription for the device:

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To subscribe to a solution tier:

  1. Select the type of subscription from the list.
  2. Select the solution tier from the list.
  3. Select the required service bandwidth from the list.
  4. Enter custom parameters (name and value) for identification.
  5. Select the Analytics Enabled check box to generate logs on the Analytics server.
  6. Click OK.

Supported Software Information

Releases 20.2 and later support all content described in this article.

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