Monitoring DMF Network Health

This chapter describes uses 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

Click the Policy Statistics tab to display 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

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

Use the Filter Interfaces visualization to balance the utilization of your filter interfaces and ensure that it doesn't drop any packets to analyze.

Interface Statistics

Click the Interface Statistics tab to display 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

Click the SN Statistics tab to display the following dashboard.
Figure 3. DMF Network > SN Statistics

Select a service from the pie chart to see the statistics for a specific managed service. It will display statistics for the selected service.

Events

Click the Events tab to display 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