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Interfaces Utilization page in the Network View

The Interfaces Utilization page provides an overview of current interface utilizations of network devices in the last 1, 7 and 30 days. Interfaces utilization levels are quantized into four set of values (0-25%, 25-50%, 50-75%, 75-100% for average value and 0-50%, 50-75%, 75-95%, 95-100% for max value) and the number of interfaces falling into each set is presented, on a device basis. The same representation is provided both for average utilization values and maximum. Discards and error indicators are also included to quickly highlight interfaces undergoing saturations or other problems. The following figure shows an example of this page.





The Interface Overview Per Device presents the following information.

Field

Description

Name

Name of the device

Type

The type of the CO entity

HW Model

Model of the device

HW Vendor

Vendor of the device

Location

Location of the device

Role

Role of the device, according to the assigned tags

IF Count

Number of physical interfaces

IF Busy

Number of physical interfaces currently used

IF AVG usage 0-25% … 75-100%

Number of interfaces with average utilization falling within the specified set of values

IF MAX usage 0-50% … 95-100%

Number of interfaces with max utilization falling within the specified set of values

Count IF with discards

Number of interfaces with discards

Count IF with errors

Number of interfaces with errors


As regard the utilization indicators thresholds (AVG, MAX), the following rules apply:

  • In columns 0-25, 25-50 for AVG and 0-50, 50-75 for MAX, a good status is presented (green indicator).
  • In columns 50-75 for AVG and 75-95 for MAX, if one interface at least is present, a warning status is presented (yellow indicator), otherwise a good status is presented.
  • In the columns 75-100 for AVG and 95-100 for MAX if one interface at least is present a critical status is presented (red indicator), otherwise a good status is presented.

As regard the counters of errors and discarded packets, the following rules apply:

  • If at least one interface has errors or discarded packets, a critical status is presented (red indicator), otherwise a good status is presented.

 


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