A status dashboard contains widgets from which you can view and manage data. Widgets are the building blocks of status dashboards. For more information about widgets, see Adding Widgets to Dashboards below. They provide information about different aspects of your Grid and networks. For example, the Member Status widget provides general information about a Grid member, and the Network Statistics widget provides data for a specified network.
The appliance provides a default status dashboard. Grid Manager displays the default dashboard only when there is more than one widget on the dashboard. You can add and modify widgets in the default dashboard, but you cannot rename or delete it. From a dashboard, you can access your most commonly accessed tasks and monitor appliance status. You can configure your own status dashboards to which you can add widgets that help you manage different data. Configuring multiple status dashboards helps organize widgets in a meaningful way and improves dashboard and widget performance. This is especially useful when you have a Grid serving a large number of Grid members. When you configure a new dashboard, you can use the existing dashboard as a template. You can create up to 100 copies at a time using the Add Dashboard option. For information about how to add status dashboards, see Adding Status Dashboards below.
You can add widgets to different dashboards, however, you can add only one widget at a time on each dashboard. The default number of widgets per dashboard is 10. The maximum number of widgets that you can add on each dashboard is 20 at a time. You can define the number of widgets that can be configured on each dashboard in User Profile. This limitation applies only to dashboards that you configure and does not apply to the default dashboard. For information about how to specify the widget limit, see Configuring Widget Limit per Dashboard below.
Grid Manager provides a default Security dashboard if you have installed any or all of the following licenses on the appliance: Threat Protection, RPZ, and Threat Analytics. The Security dashboard contains widgets that help you monitor the security status of the Grid. In the Security dashboard, you can add and remove widgets, but you cannot rename or delete them.
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- Default Status Dashboard: From the Dashboards -> Status tab -> Default tab, click the Configure icon -> Add Content. This is applicable when you have the default dashboard only.
Configured Status Dashboards: From the Dashboards -> Status tab, select the configured status dashboard, click the Configure icon -> Add Content.
Security Status Dashboard: From the Dashboards -> Status tab -> Security tab, click the Configure icon -> Add Content. This is applicable only when at least one member in the Grid has Threat Protection, RPZ, or Threat Analytics license. Note that the Security Status dashboard is a default dashboard and it cannot be renamed or deleted.
Grid Manager displays thumbnails of the available widgets. Use the scroll bar on the right to scroll through the widgets, as illustrated in the below Widgets Panel figure. - Click an icon on the filter panel, as illustrated in the Widgets Panel figure, to add a widget to the desired dashboard. The Filter panel is categorized into the following:
Cloud
Security
DNS/DHCP
Reset
When you click on an icon, Grid Manager displays thumbnails of the widgets belonging to the respective filter. If you click filters one after the other without clicking Reset, Grid Manager displays thumbnails of all widgets along with the icon that indicates the category to which the widget belongs. Click Reset to view only those widgets that belong to the selected category. Select and drag a widget to the desired location on your dashboard. You can also click
icon to add a widget to the desired dashboard.
After you add a widget to the dashboard, you can configure it to provide relevant data. You can also copy or move a widget, by selecting and dragging it to its new location on your dashboard. Grid Manager saves your dashboard configuration and displays it the next time you log in.
You can turn on auto-refresh by clicking On in the Turn Auto Refresh field at the top of the dashboard to periodically refresh the contents of all widgets in the dashboard. Click Off to disable auto-refresh for all widgets in the dashboard. When auto-refresh is disabled, you can enable it for individual widgets by clicking the Configure icon in the corresponding widgets. You can specify the auto-refresh period in seconds. The default auto-refresh period is 30 seconds.Warning title Warning If the Detailed Status panel is open, the following actions take place:
- Grid Manager auto refreshes at a rate of 30 seconds.
- Widgets that support user-specified auto refresh, refresh at the rate specified in the Auto Refresh Period field.
Therefore, even if you set the session timeout to be to greater than the auto refresh rate, auto refresh still takes place. The Grid Manager session does not time out because auto refresh takes precedence over the session timeout.
Widgets have the following icons:
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- Click Select Member. In the Member Selector dialog box and select a Grid member from the list.
- CPU: Select which type of CPU usage you want to track:
- User: The CPU usage of user applications, such as programs and libraries.
- System: The CPU usage of the kernel and drivers.
- Idle: The percentage of CPU that is not in use.
- System Memory: Select which portion of the system memory you want to track:
- Real Memory Used: The physical RAM usage.
- Swap Used: The swap area usage. The swap area is the disk area that temporarily holds a process memory image.
- NIC Usage: Select how you want to measure network traffic:
- Bytes: Reports the number of bytes.
- Packets: Reports the number of packets.
NIC Settings: Select the port on which you want to measure network traffic. If you have configured VLANs, Grid Manager displays them in the format LAN1 nnnn or LAN2 nnnn, where nnnn represents the associated VLAN ID. For example, a VLAN configured on LAN1 can be displayed as LAN1 297 and a LAN2 VLAN can be LAN2 21. For more information about VLANs, see VLAN Management.
Note title Note For vNIOS appliances, some of the options in the drop-down list may vary depending on your vNIOS configuration. For example, if you are using a single network interface instance of vNIOS for GCP, you will see choices specific to the LAN1 interface only. For more information, see the vNIOS documentation specific to your product at Appliances.
- CPU Utilization and Top N Processes: Set the auto refresh period in this section. NIOS displays the information for all available cores.
- Auto Refresh Period for CPU Utilization and Top N Processes: Enter the time interval in seconds for the CPU Core Utilization graph and the top N process data to auto refresh and display the CPU core utilization information. If you enter 12, the graph displays new information after every 12 seconds. You can enter a minimum refresh interval of 10 seconds and a maximum refresh interval of 30 seconds. By default, the time interval is set to 10 seconds. This field is applicable only to the CPU Utilization and Top N Processes tabs.
- Auto Refresh Period: Enter the refresh interval in seconds for the data in the CPU, System Memory, and NIC Usage tabs to auto refresh.
The System Activity Monitor widget displays a tab for each resource: CPU, System Memory, NIC Usage, CPU Utilization, Top N Processes.
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- CPU: The graph on the CPU tab tracks the percentage of CPU usage.
- System Memory: The graph on the System Memory tab tracks the memory utilization percentage.
- NIC Usage: The graph on the NIC Usage tab tracks either bytes or packets per second.
- CPU Utilization: If you select the Live option, the graph tracks live CPU utilization data for the last 10 minutes for all CPUs in your Grid member. The graph is refreshed based on the time interval you specify in the Auto Refresh Period for CPU Utilization and Top N Processes field. Each CPU is denoted in a different color. If you select the Historical option, you can view the CPU utilization data for up to a maximum of past 60 minutes based on the time range you specify in the Earliest and Latest fields. For example, if you enter 2019-09-05 and 09:20:42 AM in the Earliest field and 2019-09-05 and 10:20:42 AM in the Latest field, the graph displays the CPU utilization data for 5th September 2019 between 9:20:42 AM and 10:20:42 AM. You can view data for a maximum of past of 5 days but the time difference between Earliest and Latest time should not exceed 60 minutes.
- Top N Processes: If you select the Live option, the table displays the process ID and name of the top N processes that are consuming CPU utilization. N is the number that you specify in the Number of Top Processes field on the Monitoring tab of the Grid Properties editor. It also displays the percentage of CPU utilized by each process. The data is refreshed based on the time interval you specify in the Auto Refresh Period for CPU Utilization and Top N Processes field. If you select the Historical option, you can view past top N process data based on the time range you specify in the Earliest and Latest fields. For example, if you enter 2019-09-05 and 09:20:42 AM in the Earliest field and 2019-09-05 and 10:20:42 AM in the Latest field, the graph displays the top process data on 5th September 2019 between 9:20:42 AM and 10:20:42 AM. You can view data for a maximum of 5 days.
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You can also click Go to Syslog Viewer on the upper right corner of the dialog to view all events in the syslog. For more information about the syslog, see Viewing the Syslog.
Cloud Statistics
The Cloud Statistics widget appears only when you have deployed the Cloud Network Automations license on the Grid Master. This widget displays statistical information for cloud objects. It contains the following tabs: Tenant & VMs, Fixed vs. Floating and Available vs. Allocated. You must install valid cloud related licenses to access this widget. For more information about installing licenses and enabling Cloud Network Automation, see Deploying Cloud Network Automation.
To modify the Cloud Statistics widget, click the Configure icon and select one of the following:
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The Health tab displays information of RPZ zones and their last updated date and time. This data is retrieved directly from the database. Note that you cannot sort or filter values on this tab. You can export the data displayed on this tab by clicking the Export icon. For more information, see Exporting Displayed Data.
Response Policy Zone (RPZ) Status for Member
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- Client Hits: Total number of queries that triggered an RPZ policy. Note that this option is not displayed when you choose Stacked Diagram, but displayed only when you choose Line Diagram.
- Passthru Hits: Total number of queries that triggered a Passthru RPZ rule. For more information about passthru rules, see Managing Passthru Rules.
- Blocked Hits: Total number of queries that triggered a Block (No Data) or Block (No Such Domain) RPZ rule. For more information, see Managing Block (No Data) Rules or Managing Block (No Such Domain) Rules respectively.
- Substituted Hits: Total number of queries that triggered a Substitute (Domain Name) or Substitute (Record) RPZ rule. For more information, see Managing Substitute (Domain Name) Rules and Managing Substitute (Record) Rules.
- Timestamp: The graph displays a 24 hours time window.
Note the following about this tab: - The statistical data in DNS service will be reset when you stop and restart the DNS service or if you force an active DNS service to restart regardless of its state. This results in loss of prior data.
- Using this graph, you can view the timestamp of statistics collection.
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