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Simple NetPath Summary Widget

Want a simple summary of your NetPath services? You can do it with Custom Tile. It comes out like this:

Screen Shot 2018-06-22 at 9.42.00 AM.png

Clicking on any of the statuses or numbers will bring you to that list with naming convention <Service Name> (<Probe Name>):

Screen Shot 2018-06-22 at 9.42.54 AM.png

Clicking on a path will take you to the path visualization NetPath is known for.

To get this yourself, customize a page and add the "custom tile" widget:

Screen Shot 2018-06-22 at 9.42.28 AM.png

After placing on the page, click "Edit" in the top right of the widget and select one of the NetPath options under Entity Filter:

Screen Shot 2018-06-22 at 9.41.49 AM.png

If you want to get fancy, you can add an advanced entity filter and filter to a specific, widely monitored Service, or all sorts of other pivots:

Screen Shot 2018-06-22 at 9.46.38 AM.png

Add several of these to a page to build a dashboard. It's a neat use of a common resource. Thanks to jblankjblank and his team for creating this and showing me this NetPath specific customization.

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mesverrum

Nice, I'm surprised I missed the announcement of this new resource in Orion.

I've been playing with the tiles in EOC for a bit and the biggest hurdle I had run into there with them was that I can build one tile, and that's good, and I can build 10 tiles and that's a little tedious, but then my clients see the view I put together and they are like, oh hey can you build me out one of those for every X in my environment. Now I have to build them out hundreds at a time and there is no good built in way to do this in bulk. Just as a simple example, my clients would want a tile for each of their locations... for 100+ locations, and every time they add a new site they need to remember to build a new tile for it. I'd like to see a built in way to just set up a view and have it automatically generate a tile for each distinct value of this property (which is basically what I'm doing in powershell these days but clients don't want to have to learn to master SQL/SWQL/powershell/and the API just to avoid sitting in front of the screen for 10 hours building these things. I think it was wluther who had done a few posts a while back describing his various struggles with setting up views that add new charts automatically as needed.

jblankjblank

Thank you mesverrum really good info.

wluther

Yes, yes, yes, yes!! Please. We graph interfaces, and a bunch of them. We need the repetition of adding the same graph to the same page for each new qualifying element to be better automated. 1 interface = 1 graph. The graph, type, and settings are always the same. 1 new interface = 1 new graph.

wluther

Also, y'all are doing a great job with these new simplified, summary view, widgets. These are great! Big information in a tiny space. (Health summary too, I think) Great stuff!

conguir

It would be great if we could change the size (and font) of the info displayed in the custom tile. Lots of customers want to see (mainly in their NOC views) big numbers showing number of devices or apps down, with problems, etc. This custom tile resources looks really useful, but it is still not perfect.

At the moment, to achieve this, I'm using custom HTML with REST API queries, but as mesverrum mentioned, customers don't want to be scripting ninjas to know how to modify these resources.

wluther

conguir Will you post an example of your HTML/REST method? I'm always curious to learn how others accomplish their out of the box solutions.

Thank you,

-Will

conguir

Not a problem. This is an example of a treemap showing top devices by alerts triggered.

Note: the SWQL query to get the data is a bit 'peculiar' due to the way this resource works. Basically this resources allows you to have nested groups, therefore you need a 'first level' of grouping where the parent of this group has to be null:

<html>

<head>

google.charts.load('current', {'packages':['treemap']});

google.charts.setOnLoadCallback(drawChart);

function drawChart() {

var results = [['Name','Global','Alerts']];

var query = JSON.stringify({query:"select distinct 'Global' as [c0], site as [c1], 0 as [c2] from orion.nodescustomproperties where site is null union ( select n.caption + ' (' + ToString(count(*)) + ' alerts)' as[c0], 'Global' as [c1], count(*) as [c2] from orion.alerthistory ah inner join orion.nodes n on n.nodeid = ah.alertobjects.relatednodeid group by n.caption)"});

$.ajax({

type: 'POST',

url: '/Orion/Services/Information.asmx/Query',

data: query,

contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",

dataType: "json",

async: false,

success: function (response) {

for(var i in response.d.Rows) {

results.push([response.d.Rows[i][0],response.d.Rows[i][1],response.d.Rows[i][2]]);

}

})

var data = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable(results);

tree = new google.visualization.TreeMap(document.getElementById('chart_div'));

tree.draw(data, {

minColor: '#ff0',

midColor: '#f80',

maxColor: '#f00',

headerHeight: 15,

fontColor: 'black',

showScale: true

});

}

</script>

</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

This will look like this (I changed caption by nodeid)

Tree Map.PNG

I posted some examples in my LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6416236602154106880

wluther

conguir That is very nice! You Prosperon guys are great!

Thank you very much for sharing.

-Will

Deltona

Hello Raul,

What other than the database name should be changed in the code, in order for it to work in the Custom HTML resource?

conguir

I've created a better version of the script, now when you click on the device, it shows you the top alert definitions for that device:

<html>

<head>

google.charts.load('current', {'packages':['treemap']});

google.charts.setOnLoadCallback(drawChart);

function drawChart() {

var results = [['Name','Global','Alerts']];

var query = JSON.stringify({query:"select distinct 'Global' as [c0], site as [c1], 0 as [c2] from orion.nodescustomproperties where site is null union (select 'Node ' + ToString(n.nodeid) + ' (' + ToString(count(*)) + ' alerts)' as[c0], 'Global' as [c1], count(*) as [c2] from orion.alerthistory ah inner join orion.nodes n on n.nodeid = ah.alertobjects.relatednodeid group by n.caption union (select ah.alertobjects.AlertConfigurations.name + ' - Nodeid ' + ToString(n.nodeid) + ' (' +Tostring(count(*)) + ' alerts)' as [c0], s1.c0 as [c1], count(*) as [c2] from orion.alerthistory ah inner join orion.nodes n on n.nodeid = ah.alertobjects.relatednodeid inner join (select 'Node ' + ToString(n.nodeid) + ' (' + ToString(count(*)) + ' alerts)' as [c0], n.nodeid as [nodeid] from orion.alerthistory ah inner join orion.nodes n on n.nodeid = ah.alertobjects.relatednodeid group by n.caption) s1 on s1.nodeid = n.nodeid group by n.caption, ah.alertobjects.AlertConfigurations.name ))"});

$.ajax({

type: 'POST',

url: '/Orion/Services/Information.asmx/Query',

data: query,

contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",

dataType: "json",

async: false,

success: function (response) {

for(var i in response.d.Rows) {

results.push([response.d.Rows[i][0],response.d.Rows[i][1],response.d.Rows[i][2]]);

}

})

var data = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable(results);

tree = new google.visualization.TreeMap(document.getElementById('chart_div'));

tree.draw(data, {

minColor: '#ff0',

midColor: '#f80',

maxColor: '#f00',

headerHeight: 15,

fontColor: 'black',

showScale: true

});

}

</script>

</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

hpstech

Any comments about 3000+ alerts? This is what makes these kind of charts useless due to the noise of some templates.

conguir

Well, this is our dev environment, it does not surprise me the number of alerts triggered, it does surprise me that the website is up!

hpstech

Ahh, the timeless beauty of alert noise....

rschroeder

When did this become available? With NPM 12.2? Or 12.3?

jblankjblank

12.3.

tdowns

Is there any way to get this widget working on Enterprise Operations Console?

jblankjblank

tdowns - the resource is available in EOC, but I suspect you are looking for the NetPath entities to be rolled up to EOC as they are not currently available from the entity picker. That is certainly something we can ask cobrien as a feature request for a future release. I will bring it up with him... oh wait, i just did .

fryman

Any way to embed (other then in HTML) netpath into a NOC?

wluther

fryman KMSigma previously posted a simple SWQL query to display NetPath summaries via a custom query widget. NetPath Custom Query Widget

What versions are you running, and what is it, exactly, you want to embed? (The actual NetPath map display? Just the stats? A summary?)

fryman

Hey wluther! the netpath map itself with all its hops, as displayed under netpaths.

Seems like an omission for technical reasons. Also if you work out how to have a perfstack graph displayed in a noc view that refreshes every 1 min like every other widget.. do let me know!

packmankz

Hi, great work, but how to draw not a global conclusion, but separately for the group?