What Application Highlights Dashboard is for?
Application Highlights Dashboard is part of the Intelligent Edge dashboard group. It provides application visibility as they pass through the CPE device. It answers the questions how many applications a given site access and how much data it transferred. It also provides permanent record of the flows processed by the CPE.
Why do I not see anything on this dashboard?
You need to first enable Appflow feature for applications to be displayed on the dashboard.
To enable Appflow,
login to the Bumblebee portal.
Click Intelligent Edge -> CPE Routers.
Select a CPE Router, click Actions
Click Edit Appflow
Click Enable
Click Confirm
What is the Total Apps?
The Total Apps tile on the Application Highlights dashboard displays the the number of unique URLs the site visited in the past hour, 3 hours, 1 day or 1 week.
What is the Total Visits?
The Total Visits tile on the Application Highlights dashboard displays the number of TCP sessions the site visited in the past hour, 3 hours, 1 day or 1 week.
What is the Total Bytes on the dashboard?
The Total Bytes tile on the Application Highlights dashboard displays the bytes sent and received by the site in the past hour, 3 hours, 1 day or 1 week.
What is the Top Apps by Hits?
The Top Apps by Hits chart on the Application Highlights dashboard displays the top 5 applications measured the number of visits from the site observed the CPE in the last hour, 3 hours, 1 day and 1 week.
What is the Top Apps by bytes?
The Top Apps by Hits chart on the Application Highlights dashboard displays the top 5 applications measured the bytes sent and received from the site observed the CPE in the last hour, 3 hours, 1 day and 1 week.
What are the elephant and mice flows?
Elephant and mice flows are a networking terminology to describe different type of traffic flows. Typically an elephant flow represents a large data and/or long lived flow but may not occur frequently. For example a file download or upload is a elephant flow if it transfers large amount of data. In contrast a mice flow is short lived and occurs more frequently. For example, as HTTP application that retrieves time from a server.
The Elephant and mice flow chart gives you a sense of what type of traffic or flows are going through a given site.
In the Elephant and Mice flow chart, the y-axis represents bytes transferred by a flow, starting from less than 1KB, between 1KB and 2KB, between 2KB to 10KB, to greater than 100MB. The x-axis represents the number of flows.
As an example, the above chart tells us that there are about 180,000 flows (180K on the y-axis) that are in size of between 2KB and 10KB (10KB on the x-axis) in the last week (the time range is not shown in the chart). Another 180,000 flows carried 100KB data (between 10KB and 100KB). There is hardly any flow that carried more than 100MB of data (They did exists, if you hover the mouse to the live chart, that in this case amounts to 6 occurrences)
In the above example, the majority of the traffic qualifies as mice flows.
What does Elephant and Mice flows distributions mean?
Elephant flows are responsible for a majority of the network traffic volume, even though they represent a small percentage of total flows. These large flows consume a lot of bandwidth, making them a key factor in switch and router choices and bandwidth allocation.
Mice flows, on the other hand, make up a majority of the flows but individually consume much less bandwidth. They demand fast processing and quick flow setup times but do not require as much sustained bandwidth.
Having the visibility of such information helps IT understand each site's traffic patterns.
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