Bandwidth Usage Dashboard per Site

saltcreep

Hello,

I am currently in an evaluation period for NTA. I currently use Riverbed's NetProfiler for our netflow analysis and one of its primary functions for us is to graph real time bandwidth usage per site. I am sure NTA is capable of such a feature, I just dont know how to set it up. Everything seems to combine all intefaces/traffic that I have monitored, but I want to make separate widgets so Site A with 100Mbps in/out is currently using x amount in/out, Site B with 50Mbps is using X and so on. I then want to put them all onto a single dashboard in NOC mode so that we can see site usage in real time.

Any help for a newbie would be appreciated!

Edit:

So, After playing around a bit more, I think I know what I want, I am just not sure how to make it happen.

When looking at a specific interface for a router, I can set the WAN bandwidth and get the "Percent Utilization" graph. I would like to make a view that has that graph for each outside interface for each boarder router. So now, I have a dashboard showing me real time bandwidth usage. Then, if I click on an interface graph, I can go to the actual netflow data to get top talkers for that interface to see who is using it all up. Is something like that possible?

jblankjblank

saltcreep - there are lots of ways of accomplishing this!  Regardless of which way, I would certainly recommend diving into utilizing Custom Properties.  Custom Properties are tags or values you can associate with any monitored entity in the platform. These will help you easily filter on these values across the tools available such as widgets, reports, alerts, and maps. In your case, you may want to "tag" the specific interfaces you are interested in with a property like "WAN" or something. Then I would recommend using widgets like Custom Chart or Custom Table.  When choosing your data-source, custom properties provide an easy method for getting to those interfaces you are after now.  You could also utilize the Performance Analysis Dashboard to create Perf-Stack Widgets, or Roll this info up via a Map.       

Info on Performance Analysis if you are not familiar can be found in these posts:

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In a quick and dirty example, I can use custom properties to filter Top XX interfaces by traffic or utilization widgets, use them to quickly craft custom tables or charts, or I can take advantage of the ability to save a PerfStack project which can be added to any dashboard.  However you wish to see that data represented, would likely determine what your dashboard ultimately needs to look like.  For example, metrics/ statistics could be a part of a single chart or broken out into separate charts/ tables.  You could also create multiple tabs on the left-hand side for logically grouping your data.  This allows you to enable NOC mode and have the dashboard transition between tabs based on a set interval.

The Open In Perfstack button allows you to go directly into the Performance Analysis dashboard where you can run real-time polling or enable display transforms to look at anomalies.  You could also click on an interface name and be directed to the details page where this is available also.  If you are currently in an evaluation, you always have the option to ask your Account Manager to get a SE on the phone to take a look at some of these features.  If you need further assistance or have additional questions, please feel free to reach out.