Monitoring DMF Network Health

This chapter describes how to use the dashboards on the DMF Network tab to monitor activity on the DANZ Monitoring Fabric. It includes the following sections.

DMF Network Tab

The DMF Network tab includes dashboards that display the following information visible to the DMF controller:
  • Policy Statistics
  • Interface Statistics
  • SN Statistics
  • Incline Statistics
  • Events
Note: Information displayed on these dashboards requires configuring an ACL for Redis and replicated Redis using the Analytics CLI after first boot configuration.

Policy Statistics Dashboard

When you click the Policy Statistics tab, the system displays the following dashboard:
Figure 1. DMF Network > Policy Statistics Dashboard
The Policy Statistics dashboard summarizes information about DANZ Monitoring Fabric policy activity and provides the following panels:
  • Top Active Policies
  • Top Filter Interfaces
  • Top Service Interfaces
  • Top Delivery Interfaces
  • Mean Bit Rate
  • Mean Packet Rate
  • Core Switch
  • Policy Core Interface Bit Rate
  • Core Interface
  • Policy Core Interface Packet Rate
  • Records
  • Policies with no traffic

You can use the Top Active Policies visualization to verify that your DANZ Monitoring Fabric policies are active and behaving as expected.

You can use the Filter Interfaces visualization to balance the utilization of your filter interfaces and to help make sure no packets you want to analyze are dropped.

Interface Statistics

When you click the Interface Statistics tab, the system displays the following dashboard.
Figure 2. DMF Network > Interface Statistics
The Interface Statistics dashboard summarizes information about DANZ Monitoring Fabric switch interface activity and provides the following panels:
  • Interface Type
  • SVC-Del-Filter IF
  • Core Switch (IF)
  • Core IF
  • Bit Rate
  • Packet Rate
  • Interface Detail

SN (Service Node) Statistics

When you click the SN Statistics tab, the system displays the following dashboard.
Figure 3. DMF Network > SN Statistics

To see the statistics for a specific managed service, select a service from the pie chart. This will display statistics for the selected service.

Events

When you click the Events tab, the system displays the following dashboard.
Figure 4. DMF Network > Events
The Events dashboard summarizes information about DANZ Monitoring Fabric management network events and provides the following panels:
  • Events Over Time
  • Events