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Guided Tour of SPD

This chapter describes the structure, components, and features of the Silver Peak Dashboard (SPD). It also familiarizes you with elements, hierarchy, and conventions employed by SPD.

The SPD dashboard works with the Global Management System (GMS) server, to provide customized reporting.

In This Chapter What is SPD? See page 2.

What is the Dashboard? See page 4.

Who Owns What? See page 11.

Using the Chart Editor See page 13.

Using the Table Editor See page 16.

Creating Your First Dashboard See page 18.

Guided Tour of SPD What is SPD?

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What is SPD?SPD, called speed, is the dynamic, interactive, browser-based Silver Peak Dashboard application for creating, customizing, and viewing report data. It consists of three tabs:

When you first log in, you arrive at the Dashboard tab, which displays the Default dashboard, owned by admin.

Subsequently, you can create as many dashboards as you want, for different and specific perspectives of your network. You can also create a slideshow of selected dashboards, choosing freely from ones that either admin provided or you created.

To login to SPD

1 In a browser window, enter the URL of the GMS server. The GMS Home Page appears.

2 Click Silver Peak Dashboard. The login page appears.

Dashboard A user-defined arrangement of portlets — consisting of charts, tables, and images.

To change the content or the “look and feel” of any portlet— or to create a new portlet — you must use the editors in the Charts or Tables tabs.

Charts Chart editor

Tables Table editor

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SPD uses the same authentication method as what is configured for the GMS.

a If you are logging in as admin, then enter admin for the username and for the password.

b If you are logging in as yourself, use the same credentials that you do for the GMS client.

The Default Dashboard appears.

When you first log on, whether you logged in as admin or logged in as yourself, admin owns the Default Dashboard and all the portlets in the Dashboard.

In the default portlet’s title bar:

• If you’re logged in as admin, then

you’ll see .

• If you’re logged in as yourself,

then you’ll see

In the Dashboard tab:

• If you’re logged in as admin, then

you’ll see .

• If you’re logged in as yourself,

then you’ll see

User, with their own credentials

Guided Tour of SPD What is the Dashboard?


What is the Dashboard?This section introduces the dashboard and describes its various components:

Dashboard Bar See page 5.

Portlet’s Title Bar See page 5.

Portlet Types See page 6.

Page Interactivity See page 8.

Slide Show See page 10.

A dashboard is a structure that contains portlets. A portlet can be a chart, a table, or an image. SPD includes editors for creating and editing charts and tables.

• When you save a dashboard, you save the current selection, display, and arrangement of portlets.

• When you save a dashboard, the ownership of the portlets does not change. If admin owned the portlet before you saved the dashboard, then admin still owns the portlet.

• Unlike charts and tables, images don’t have owners, or an editor. They’re available from a drop-down list that points to a specific GMS server directory.

image

dashboard bar

tablechart

title bar

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Dashboard Bar

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Portlet’s Title Bar

Each portlet has a title bar.

Dashboard’s Name

Save As means that Admin owns the dashboard.

Save means that you own it.

For deleting a dashboard you own. Not accessible if admin owns it.

Arrange in 1, 2, or 3 columns

For adding components to the dashboard

• Shows who owns which tables. • You can only access Admin’s portlets or

your own.• Add Chart functions the same way.

To select multipledashboards for a slide show

To start/stop theslide show

Configures color theme, refresh interval, and slideshow interval

For e-mail feedback to Silver Peak

Toggle to expand/collapse the objectImages don’t have owners, so this area is blank

Removes the chart, table, or image from the dashboard, but not from the database

If Owned by admin isn’t specified, then the user owns the portlet. Links to editor



Portlet Types

Dashboards can contain a variety of portlets — charts, tables, and images. Additionally, you can change the look and feel of charts and tables with their respective editors.

Charts

The chart options include vertical bar chart, line chart, pie chart, gauge, and horizontal bar chart.

Chart Type Its Interactivity in Dashboard

Bar Chart [Time Bar Chart] Toggle color key(s) to include/exclude parameter

Rollover for detail. Caveat: Unable to access a bar that is completely behind another bar.

Line Chart [Time Series]Toggle color key(s) to include/exclude parameter

Rollover for detail

Gauge [Speedometer]

No rollover interactivity


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Tables

On the Dashboard tab, there is no user interactivity with table data.

If a table’s columns are truncated on the right side, try one of these options:

• to refresh the view, click the icon with the same number of columns

• resize the column

• widen the browser window

• reduce the number of dashboard columns, for example, from 2 to 1.

Chart Type Its Interactivity in Dashboard

Pie Chart [Pie Chart]

Rollover any pie segment or legend name to extrude the slice and see a label with detail.

[Top 10 Bar Chart]

Rollover for detail



Page Interactivity

While you’re on the Dashboard tab, you can also do the following:

• resize a column’s width

• rearrange the layout by dragging portlets/images

To resize a column’s width

1 Move the cursor toward the space between two columns.

The cursor changes shape.

2 Click the mouse and don’t release it. Move the mouse to the left or right to reposition the gutter. As you start moving the mouse, a vertical line appears, showing you where the gutter would be placed if you released the mouse.

3 When you’ve reached the position you want, release the mouse click. The columns are resized.

To rearrange charts, tables, or images

Whenever you add a chart, table, or image, it always positions itself in the top left corner of the dashboard. You can reposition it and/or any of the others.


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New items insert themselves in this position — top left corner

To reposition any table, chart, or image, click and drag to the desired destination.

While you’re moving an object, it appears lighter and “moves” other objects so you can see the final position.



Slide Show

To view different perspectives of your network’s performance, you can create, name, and save multiple dashboards.

You can create a single slide show by selecting from a list of all the dashboards that you and admin have saved.

Click to open the list of available Dashboards, and select the ones you want.

Green progress bar shows how much time between changing dashboard views

Toggles play/stop

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Who Owns What?When you first open SPD, admin is the default owner of the Dashboard and of the portlets — whether you log in as admin or you log in as yourself.

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Using the Chart Editor Guided Tour of SPD

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Using the Chart EditorThe editor lets you preview the chart as you create it. If an option isn’t available in a context, it’s dimmed.

What appears in Load drop-down list

Green frame if characters entered are acceptable. Red, if not (or if field is blank).

Cursor over field reveals tool tips.

Enter text for the Title Bar

Fills in values for a default chart with no name or title.

Save is visible when the chart belongs to the user.

Save As saves a copy of a portlet that belongs to admin.

Deletes the loaded, user-owned portlet

Display changes with chart type selection

For examples of chart types, see “Charts” on page 6.

Parameters for filtering data

Chart type determines which set is available

NAME & TITLE

CHART TYPE & FILTERS

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Guided Tour of SPD Using the Chart Editor


CHART DISPLAY — Legend / X-axis / Y-axis

Click color to select/deselect parameter

To cycle through magnitude of units (TB, GB, MB, KB), click on any value.

Click to toggle dedupe between % and X-factor.

To zoom in... click, drag, and release. The chart updates to show the new range.

NOTE: When editing a pie chart, you can also toggle between WAN and LAN.

CHART DISPLAY — Speedometer / Gauge

What went outbound to WAN from the appliance during time frame[light blue segment – 258 Mbps]

Amount of “unused pipe” (available throughput)[orange segment – 634 Mbps]

configured system bandwidth[1000 Mbps]

Speedometer is only for displaying throughput for a single appliance in either the inbound or outbound direction.

HINT: For more detail, toggle to the time series (line) chart.

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NEEDLE: For [outbound] traffic, how much data came in to the appliance [from the LAN] – 634 Mbps

When the needle is in the green area, it indicates by how much the throughput exceeded the “pipe’s” physical limitations (that is, Max System BW)

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TIME SELECTION

To change the time frame, you can also

• drag the slider to change its position

• change the slider’s size — click and drag an edge

Spark lines of the activity

Displays slider range. Can also set it.

When you select, one endpoint is always NOW.

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Guided Tour of SPD Using the Table Editor


Using the Table EditorThe editor lets you preview the table as you create it. If an option isn’t available in a context, it’s dimmed.

Enter text for the Title Bar

NAME / TITLE / PARAMETERS

Table Types:

• Alarm• Audit• Appliance• Application• Tunnel

Table Type determines which Columns are available.

What appears in Load drop-down list, to the right

Green frame if characters entered are acceptable. Red, if not (or if field is blank).

Cursor over field reveals tool tips.

Fills in values for a default chart with no name or title.

Save is visible when the chart belongs to the user.

Save As saves a copy of a portlet that belongs to admin.

Deletes the loaded, user-owned portlet from the database

Using the Name, loads an existing table into the editor

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Alarm Audit Appliance Application Tunnel

AlarmsSeveritySourceTypeTimeAppliance

ActionDetailSourceUserTimeAppliance

ApplianceModelReleaseUp SinceUp TImeModeBypassAppliance IPAlarmsHW RevBIOS VerBandwidthSerial #LAN DataLAN ThruputWAN DataWAN ThruputDedupeOpt[imized]/TotalUtilizationLAN PacketsWAN PacketsMax TCP Proxy FlowsMax TCP FlowsMax Non-TCP Flows

ApplicationLAN DataLAN ThruputWAN DataWAN ThruputDedupe

TunnelSourceDestinationModeStateBandwidthMTULAN DataLAN ThruputWAN DataWAN ThruputDedupeLAN PacketsWAN PacketsMax TCP Proxy FlowsMax TCP FlowsMax Non-TCP FlowsPre-FEC LossPost-FEC LossPre-POC OOOPost-POC OOOPre-FEC Max LossPost-FEC Max LossPre-POC OOO MaxPost-POC OOO MaxMin LatencyMax LatencyAvg Latency

TABLE TYPES & COLUMNS2 Columns are ordered as they appear in the drop-down lists

TABLE INTERACTIVITY

Cycles through chart types:

• vertical bar / line / none

• pie / horizontal bar / none

Sort Cycles through units

Deletes column from chart

Can drag to change column order when cursor becomes cross on name

Cycles through traffic types: Total / Optimized / Passthrough / All Shaped / Passthrough Shaped / Passthrough Unshaped

Toggle inbound/ outbound

Cycles through time frame: Last Minute / Last Hour / Last Day / Last 24 Hours / Last 7 Days / Last 30 Days

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Guided Tour of SPD Creating Your First Dashboard


Creating Your First DashboardFollow these basic steps to create your own dashboards:

1 With your own credentials, login to SPD. The Default dashboard appears, and it belongs to admin.

2 In the dashboard bar, click Save As. A dialog box appears.

3 In the Name field, enter a name for your dashboard, and click Save.

4 Decide what portlets should populate your dashboard.

Your options include:

• Keep an admin portlet, as is. You’ll see the same thing that admin does, and if admin edits a portlet, you’ll see the same display.

• Load other portlets from the database [using Add Chart, Add Table, or Add Image] — either yours or admin’s.

• Modify and save an admin portlet as your own. You may want to do any of the following:

• rename the portlet

• change the number of columns

• change the order of portlets, add portlets, or delete portlets

• change the display of spark lines or units

• change the time frame, metric, appliance, traffic, or filter, etc.

• Create a portlet from scratch, by clicking New in the Chart Editor or Table Editor, and building from there.

5 After you’ve finished with all of the above steps, Save your dashboard.

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