Monitor and Troubleshoot Overall Enterprise Health

Enterprises

An enterprise is a network context that

  • includes network devices, routers, switches, wireless controllers, and access points,

  • enables monitoring and troubleshooting of overall health of your enterprise health in Assurance.

  • supports analysis and visibility for proactive management.

You can use Assurance to monitor and troubleshoot the overall health of your enterprise. Your enterprise consists of network devices and clients.

A network consists of one or more devices, including routers, switches, wireless controllers, and access points. Note that clients and devices in maintenance mode are not part of the network health score.

A client is an end device (computer, phone, and so on) that is connected to a network device (access point or switch). Catalyst Center supports both wired and wireless clients.

Monitor and troubleshoot the overall health of your enterprise

Use this procedure to get a global view of the health of your enterprise, which includes network devices and clients, and to determine if there are potential issues that must be addressed.

Procedure

Step 1

From the main menu, choose Assurance > Health.

The Overall health dashboard appears.

Figure 1. Overall health dashboard
Figure 7: Dashboard showing network devices, wired clients, and wireless clients.

Step 2

Use the Overall health dashboard top menu bar for this functionality:

Overall health dashboard top menu bar
Item Description

Location pane

  • Click to select the site, building, or floor from the Site hierarchy.

  • Click next to the location icon and select Site Details to view the Sites table.

    From the Sites Details table, you can do this functionality:

    • Click to hide the Sites table.

    • : Click this toggle button and use the drop-down list to select Hierarchical Site View or Building View. Based on what you select, the table displays the percentage of healthy clients and network devices for a specific location.

    • : Click this toggle button to display the health of all the sites in your enterprise on a geographic location-oriented health map. By default, the sites that are represented are color coded according to the severity of the problem.

      The color of the health score represents its severity. The health is measured on a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is the best score. A score of 0 indicates that data could not be obtained.

    • From the Go to sites column, click for a site or building to display data only for that location on the Overall dashboard.

Time range

Enables you to display data for the last 3 hours, 24 hours, or 7 days.

Actions drop-down list

Enables you to export the overall dashboard to PDF format. Click Export Dashboard to view the preview page and click Save.

Enables you to customize the dashboard display when you select Edit Dashboards from the drop-down list. See Change the position of a dashlet and Create a custom dashboard.

Step 3

Use the Overall Health Summary dashlet for this functionality:

Overall Health Summary dashlet
Item Description
Network Devices

Network Score: Percentage of healthy (good) devices (routers, switches, wireless controllers, and access points) in your overall enterprise. See Network Health score.

Device Category Health Score: Percentage of healthy (good) network devices for these device categories: Router, Core (including third-party devices), Distribution, Access, Controller and Access Point.

Note

 

When an SD-Access fabric is selected, this area provides the percentage of healthy network devices for these categories: Fabric Edge, Fabric Border, and Fabric Control Plane.

Click View Network Health to open the Network Health dashboard. See Monitor and troubleshoot the health of your network.

Wired Clients and Wireless Clients

Provides the score distribution between wired and wireless clients. The Wired Client score or the Wireless Client score is the percentage of healthy (good) wired or wireless client devices in your overall enterprise. See Client Health score.

Click View Client Health to open the Client Health dashboard. See Monitor and troubleshoot the health of all client devices.

Step 4

Use the Network Services dashlet for this functionality:

Network Services dashlet
Item Description
AAA

Provides the total percentage of successful and failure transactions for all the AAA servers in your overall enterprise.

Click View AAA Dashboard to open the Network Services AAA dashboard. See Monitor the AAA network service.

DNS

Provides the total percentage of successful and failure transactions for all the DNS servers in your overall enterprise.

Click View DNS Dashboard to open the Network Services DNS dashboard. See Monitor the DNS network service.

DHCP

Provides the total percentage of successful and failure transactions for all the DHCP servers in your overall enterprise.

Click View DHCP Dashboard to open the Network Services DHCP dashboard. See Monitor the DHCP network service.

Step 5

Use the Site Analytics dashlet for this functionality:

Site Analytics dashlet

The Site Analytics dashlet displays the sites with the worst wireless networking performance in terms of aggregated coverage, onboarding, roaming, and connection speed. The performance is based on the default performance thresholds or ones that you set in the Site Analytics Settings window. For information, see Configure Site Analytics settings.

AI Network Analytics must be enabled for site analytics data to be collected. Click the Enable AI Network Analytics link to go directly to the Cisco AI Analytics window where you can configure this system setting. For information, see Configure Cisco AI Network Analytics.

Under each KPI category, click a site name to display more information about the site or click View Site Analytics to go directly to the Site Analytics window. For information, see Monitor and Troubleshoot Your Network Using Site Analytics.

Note

 

If AI Network Analytics isn't enabled, Assurance displays an example dashlet with sample data.

Step 6

Use the Top 10 Issue Type dashlet for this functionality:

Top 10 Issue Type Dashlet

Displays the top 10 issues, if any, that must be addressed. The issues are color coded and sorted by their preassigned priority level, starting with P1.

Click an issue to open a slide-in pane with additional details about the issue type. From the slide-in pane, click an issue instance where you can do these tasks, as required:

  • To resolve the issue instance, from the Status drop-down list, select Resolve.

  • To ignore the issue instance:

    1. From the Status drop-down list, select Ignore.

    2. Set the number of hours to ignore the issue on the slider.

    3. Click Confirm.

Click View All Open Issues to open the Open Issues window.

For information about issues, see View open issues.