Monitor Director Nodes and Analytics Node Alarms
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Versa Director is a centralized single-pane-of-glass platform that you use to monitor all the controllers, branch sites, and hub sites in your network. You can access all monitoring dashboards, screens, and tools in Director view by selecting the Monitor tab.
The Versa Director monitor dashboard displays resource information and the real-time system status of the Director applications and Versa Director nodes, and it provides a detailed information about alarms that have occurred on Versa Director and Versa Analytics nodes.
Note: You can view detailed monitoring information about Analytics nodes from the Analytics application. For more information, see Monitor Analytics Clusters.
To view the Director monitor dashboard, in Director View, select the Monitor tab, and then select Director from the Organization drop-down list.
The following sections describe the panes on the Versa Director monitor dashboard:
- System Details
- Recent Events
- Package Information
- High Availability (For Releases 22.1.4 and earlier)
- Cluster Details (For Releases 23.1.1 and later)
- Uptime
- License
System Details
The System Details pane displays information about Director CPU, memory, and disk resources.
Recent Events
When notable events occur on Director and Analytics nodes, such as exceeding memory usage thresholds, the nodes generate alarms. The Recent Events pane displays alarm counts for Director and Analytics nodes. From the Recent Events pane, you can drill down to display alarm details and manage alarms.
Note: Analytics nodes do not forward alarms to Director by default. To view Analytics alarms from the Monitor tab, you must configure Analytics nodes to export their alarms. See Export Alarms Logs to Director Nodes in Configure Log Collectors and Log Exporter Rules.
Alarms
To view information about alarms of a given severity level, click the alarm count.
A table of alarms with that severity level displays. The following example displays alarms with severity level Indeterminate for a Director node.
To view alarms for all severity levels, select View Details in the Recent Events pane. The Director Recent Events or Analytics Recent Events table displays.
The Director Recent Events table displays both notification alarms from the Director application and alarms from the Director node. The Analytics Recent Events table displays Analytics device alarms. For more information about Director application alarms and Director node alarms, see Event Notifications and Director Alarms. For more information about Analytics device alarms, see Configure Analytics Alarms.
To view related alarm information for a specific device, click the device name.
To return to the Director monitor dashboard, click the 
Manage Alarms
To clear, export, or handle an alarm, click the checkbox next to the device name. This activates the menu in the upper right corner of the screen.
Clear Alarms
To clear an alarm, click the box to the left of one or more alarms, and then click the 
Clear Selected Alarm icon. In the Clear Alarm(s) window, click Yes to confirm.
Export Alarms
To export the alarm details to a CSV file, select the alarms, and then click the 
Export icon.
Handle Alarms
To handle and assign an alarm, select the alarm and click the
Handle/Assign icon.
In the Alarm Handling window, select the required information and then click OK.
Package Information
The Package Information pane displays information about the Director software image package that is installed and running on the Director node.
High Availability
For Releases 22.1.4 and earlier, the High Availability pane displays information about Director high availability (HA) mode. For Releases 23.1.1 and later, see Cluster Details.
Note: For Releases 23.1.1 and later, the term "active" is replaced with "primary", and the term "standby" is replaced with "secondary."
The fields display the following information:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Failover Timeout | Timeout period, in seconds, before the standby node promotes itself to the active state. |
| Standby Start Timeout | When the service starts, the non-designated active node waits for a period of three times the backup start timeout (in seconds), before the designated master promotes itself to the active state. |
| Auto Switchover Timeout | Wait timeout period, in seconds, before the designated active node promotes itself to the active state. |
| Auto Switchover Enabled | Whether automatic switchover from the backup to the active Director node is enabled (true) or not (false). |
| Active | Whether the Director node is the active node (true) or not (false). In Releases 21.x or earlier, the term master is used. |
| Enabled | Whether high availability is enabled (true) or not (false). |
| Node Name | Name of the Director node. |
| Southbound Interface | IP address or addresses of the Director node's southbound interface. |
Cluster Details
For Releases 23.1.1 and later.
The Cluster Details pane displays information about Director cluster nodes.
The fields display the following information:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Southbound Interfaces |
Displays the interfaces connecting to the network that are used to send control traffic for communication between the headend components and the VOS branch devices. |
| Northbound Address |
Displays the IP address used for communication with the centralized management and control planes. |
| Southbound Address |
Displays the IP address of the interface that connects to the LAN. |
| Configured Status | Displays the user-specified node status in the cluster. For example, primary, secondary, or arbiter (also known as designated active or designated standby). |
| Operational Status | Displays the current status of each node in the cluster. |
| Local Node | Displays the currently logged in node. |
Uptime
The Uptime pane displays information about how long the Director node has been up and operational.
- Application uptime—How long the Director service process (daemon) has been operational.
- System uptime—How long the Director node has been up since the last reboot.
License
The License pane displays information about the Director node's software license.
Supported Software Information
Releases 20.2 and later support all content described in this article, except:
- Starting with Release 22.x and later, neutral terminology is introduced to support high availability. Specifically, "master" is replaced with "active," "slave" with "standby," "arrived" with "online," and "died" with "offline." These changes may require updates to existing scripts, including modifications to alarm names.
- Release 23.1.1 introduces the Cluster Details pane, which replaces the High Availability pane. and introduces the following terminology changes: "active" is replaced with "primary," and "standby" is replaced with "secondary". These changes may require updates to existing scripts, including modifications to alarm names.