Dashboard_RealTimeMonitor
The Real-Time Monitor provides administrators an inclusive, multi-functional display with information about applications, bandwidth usage, packet rate, packet size, connection rate, connection count, multi-core monitoring, and memory usage.
This section contains the following subsections:
• Ingress and Egress Bandwidth Flow
The Real-Time Monitor Toolbar contains features to specify the refresh rate, export details, configure color palettes, change the amount of data displayed, and pause or play the data flow. Changes made to the toolbar apply across all the data flows.
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The Applications data flow, which is disabled by default, provides a visual representation of the current applications accessing the network.
Options are available to Display, Scale, and View the Application interface.
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Available Formats
Administrators are able to view the Application flow charts in a bar graph format or flow chart format. The bar graph format displays applications individually, allowing administrators to compare applications. In this graph, the x-axis displays the name of the applications. The y-axis displays the amount of traffic for each application. The following example is a “Flow Chart” view.
The flow chart format displays over lapping application data. In this graph, the x-axis displays the current time and the y-axis displays the traffic for each application. The following example is a “Bar Chart” view.
Ingress and Egress Bandwidth Flow
The Ingress and Egress Bandwidth data flow provides a visual representation of incoming and outgoing bandwidth traffic. The current percentage of total bandwidth used, average flow of bandwidth traffic, and the minimum and maximum amount of traffic that has gone through each interface is available in the display. Administrators are able to view the Ingress and Egress Bandwidth flow chart in a bar graph format or flow chart format.
The bar graph format displays data pertaining to individual interfaces in a bar graph; allowing administrators to compare individual Bandwidth Interfaces. In this graph, the x-axis denotes the Interfaces whereas the y-axis denotes the Ingress and Egress Bandwidth traffic.
The flow chart format overlaps the Bandwidth Interfaces; allowing administrators to view all of the Ingress and Egress Bandwidth traffic as it occurs. The x-axis displays the current time and the y-axis displays the Ingress and Egress Bandwidth traffic.
Options are available to customize the Display, Scale, and View of the Ingress and Egress Bandwidth interface.
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Tooltips
Rolling over the interfaces provides tooltips with information about the interface assigned zone, IP address, and current port status.
Note The Bandwidth flow charts have no direct correlation to the Application flow charts.
The Packet Rate Monitor provides the administrator with information on the ingress and egress packet rate in packets per second (pps). This can be configured to show packet rate by network interface. The graph shows the packet rate current average, minimum packet rate, and maximum packet rate for both ingress and egress network traffic.
The Packet Size Monitor provides the administrator with information on the ingress and egress packet rate in kilobytes per second (Kps). This can be configured to show packet size by network interface. The graph shows the packet size current average, minimum packet size, and maximum packet size for both ingress and egress network traffic.
The Connection Count data flow provides the administrator a visual representation of “current” total number of connections, “peak” number of connections, and maximum. In this example, the y-axis displays the total number of connections from 0C (zero connections) to 1KC (one kilo connections).
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The Multi-Core Monitor displays dynamically updated statistics of the utilization of the individual cores of the SonicWALL SuperMassive.
On all SuperMassives, the first core of each blade handles control data, and memory is shared across all cores.
On the SuperMassive 10800, cores 1 through 8 handle the control plane, and the utilization of cores 1 through 8 is displayed in green on the Multi-Core Monitor. Each core can process a separate flow simultaneously, and up to 88 flows can be processed in parallel.
When browsing the Web Management interface and applying changes, high utilization of cores 1 through 8 is normal. All Web Management requests are processed by cores 1 through 8 and do not impact the other cores. Traffic handling and other critical, performance-oriented and system tasks are always prioritized by the scheduler, and will never be impacted by web management usage.
On the SuperMassive 10400, cores 1 through 4 handle the control plane, and the utilization of cores 1 through 4 is displayed in green on the Multi-Core Monitor.
Administrators are able to view the Multi-Core Monitor flow chart in a bar graph format or flow chart format. The bar graph format displays data pertaining to individual cores. In this graph the x-axis displays the cores where the y-axis displays the percentage of CPU used.
The flow chart format overlaps the Multi-Core Monitor data. The x-axis displays the current time and the y-axis displays the percentage of CPU used.
Scale, and View are options available to customize the Multi-Core Monitor interface.
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