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- Monitoring Devices
- Monitoring Wireless Devices
- Creating Monitoring Policies and Thresholds
- Monitoring Alarms
- Monitoring Clients and Users
- Performance Routing Version 3 Based Network Monitoring
- Monitoring Wireless Technologies
- Using Monitoring Tools
- Viewing Performance Graphs
- Troubleshooting
- Monitoring Multiple Prime Infrastructure Instances
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- Configuring and Monitoring IWAN
- Using Converged Access Workflow
- Configuring Application Visibility and Control
- Ensuring Consistent Application Experiences
- Troubleshooting Applications
- Monitoring Microsoft Lync Traffic
- Using Mediatrace
- Cisco Mobility Services Engine and Services
- Configuring the Cisco AppNav Solution
- Configuring WAAS Container
- Working with Wireless Mobility
- System Time Zones
Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 User Guide
- Updated:
- July 30, 2018
Chapter: Viewing Dashboards
Viewing and Managing Dashboards
Dashboards display at-a-glance views of the most important data in your network. They provide status and alerts, monitoring, and reporting information. Dashboards contain dashlets that consist of visual displays such as tables and charts.
Viewing Dashboards
Prime Infrastructure provides several types of dashboards that contain graphs and visual indicators:
- Overview—Provides summary information and includes tabs specific to alarms and events, clients, network devices, network interfaces, and service assurance.
- Wireless—Provides wireless information about Security, Mesh, CleanAir, and ContextAware.
- Performance—Provides a summary of performance metrics and includes tabs specific to sites, devices, access points, interfaces, applications, voice/video, end user experience, and WAN optimization.
- Network Summary—Provides an overview summary of your network including status metrics and a tab specific to incidents which includes alarm and event type graphs and critical, major, and minor alarm counts.
- Data Center—Provides information about Data Center and includes tabs specific to Compute and Host.
Note Prime Infrastructure filters the monitoring data for virtual domains, based on the end points assigned to the sites and not based on the datasource, hence the dashboards display information for all virtual domains, irrespective of the virtual domain assigned to the user.
- Overview Dashboards
- Wireless Dashboards
- Performance Dashboards
- Network Summary Dashboards
- Data Center Dashboards
Overview Dashboards
Table 7-1 describes the default information shown in each of the dashboards under Dashboard > Overview .
Wireless Dashboards
Table 7-2 describes the default information shown in each of the dashboards under Dashboard > Wireless .
Performance Dashboards
Choose one of the dashboards under Dashboard > Performance to view a summary of performance metrics. Viewing the performance dashboards can show you the health of the networks, servers, and applications.
You can use performance graphs to compare the performance of different devices or interfaces.
Table 7-3 describes the default information shown in each of the dashboards under Dashboard > Wireless .
Network Summary Dashboards
Choose one of the following dashboards under Dashboard > Network Summary to view a summary of important data points in your network. Table 7-4 describes the default information shown in each of the dashboards under Dashboard > Network Summary .
Viewing Options for Network Summary Metrics
You can perform the following actions on the Metrics, which are displayed at the top of the Network Summary dashboards:
- Add or remove metrics by select Settings > Add or Remove Metric Dashlet(s) .
- Reorder the metrics by clicking near the metric title and dragging and dropping it to the area you prefer.
- Click any of the hyperlinks in any of the boxes to go the details for that metric. For example, if you click on a number displayed in the Alarm Summary metrics, you go to the alarm page to view more information about the alarm(s).
Data Center Dashboards
Table 7-5 describes the default information shown in each of the dashboards under Dashboard > Data Center .
Managing and Editing Dashboards
The Prime Infrastructure dashboards contain dashlets with charts, graphs, tables, and other information. There are various tools, options, and settings you can specify in order to customize the dashboards.
- Understanding Dashlet Icons
- Adding Dashboards
- Adding Dashlets
- Time Filters for Dashboards and Dashlets
- Overriding a Dashlet Filter
- Creating Generic Dashlets
Understanding Dashlet Icons
Dashboards contain dashlets that consist of visual displays such as tables and charts. You can drag and drop dashlets to any location in the dashboards. Hover your mouse cursor over any dashlet, and the following icons appear in the top-right corner of the dashboard.
Dashlet badges indicate which filters were applied when generating the contents of each dashlet.
You can customize the predefined set of dashlets depending on your network management needs. You can organize the information in user-defined dashboards. The default view comes with default dashboards and pre-selected dashlets for each.
When using dashlets bear in mind:
- The label “ Edited ” next to the dashlet heading indicates that the dashlet has been customized. If you reset to the default settings, the Edited label is cleared.
- When an upgrade occurs, the arrangement of dashlets in a previous version is maintained. Because of this, dashlets or features added in a new release are not displayed. Click the Manage Dashboards link to discover new dashlets.
- The horizontal and vertical scrollbars are visible if you zoom the dashlets. Reset the zoom level back to zero, or no zoom for viewing the dashlets without the scrollbars.
Adding Dashboards
Prime Infrastructure has a set of default dashboards. You can also create a custom dashboard to display information specific to your needs:
Step 1 Click Settings at the top right of any dashboard page, and choose Add New Dashboard .
Step 2 Enter a name for the new dashboard, then click Add .
Step 3 Choose the new dashboard and add dashlets to it.
Adding Dashlets
Each dashboard displays a subset of the available dashlets. You can add any dashlet that is not automatically displayed to any dashboard you want.
Step 1 Choose Dashboard , then select the dashboard to which you want to add the dashlet.
Step 2 Click the Settings icon, then choose Add Dashlets .
Step 3 Find the dashboard heading in the drop-down list; you can add any of the dashlets under that heading to that dashboard.
Default Dashlets
The following tables list the default dashlets that you can add to your Prime Infrastructure Home page or any dashboard:
Table 7-6 lists the default General Dashlets that you can add in your Prime Infrastructure home page.
Table 7-7 lists the default Security Dashlets that you can add in your Prime Infrastructure home page.
Table 7-8 lists the default Client Dashlets that you can add in your Prime Infrastructure home page.
Table 7-9 lists the default Network Dashlets that you can add in your Prime Infrastructure home page.
Table 7-10 lists the default Service Assurance Dashlets that you can add in your Prime Infrastructure home page.
Table 7-11 lists the default Incident Dashlets that you can add in your Prime Infrastructure home page.
Time Filters for Dashboards and Dashlets
You can filter dashboards and dashlets based on a period of time. There are two ways to display information for a specified time:
Overriding a Dashlet Filter
You can change the filter settings for just one dashlet. For example, to change the time frame during which data is collected for a single dashlet from the default to 24 hours:
Step 1 Navigate to that dashlet and click Dashlet Options icon.
Step 2 Select the Override Dashboard Time Filter check box, choose Past 24 Hours from the Time Frame drop-down list, then click Save And Close .
The dashlet displays the last 24 hours of data, regardless of what is specified in the Dashboard Time Frame pulldown menu. The label “Edited” next to the Time Frame dashlet badge with a red diagonal line over the badge indicates that the filter has been customized.
Creating Generic Dashlets
You can add a generic dashlet to the Performance dashboards and to any dashboard under the Performance tab. The generic dashlet displays the values for all polled devices.
You must create at least one custom monitoring policy (for example, see Creating New Monitoring Policies).
Step 1 Choose any dashboard under Dashboard > Performance .
Step 2 Click the Settings icon, then choose Add Dashlets .
Step 3 Find the Generic Dashlet and click Add . The Generic Dashlet appears on the dashboard.
Step 4 To edit the dashlet, hover your cursor over the Generic Dashlet and click Dashlet Options icon.
Step 6 From the Template Name drop-down list, choose the custom template that you created, then click Save .
Restoring Dashboards
After an upgrade, the arrangement of dashlets in the previous version is maintained. Therefore, dashlets or features added in a new release are not displayed. To display new dashlets, click the Settings icon and choose Manage Dashboards .
To restore a dashboard to the default settings:
Step 1 Click Settings at the top right of any dashboard page, then choose Manage Dashboards .
Step 2 Choose a dashboard from the list, and click Reset .
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