View NTA data in the SolarWinds Platform Web Console
Once you have configured and enabled a NetFlow source, you can view the various types of NetFlow statistics that it records in the SolarWinds Platform Web Console. The statistics are provided as widgets grouped to form individual views.
Views
A view is a web page showing information about your network and the traffic going through individual nodes and interfaces. A view consists of widgets. You can customize which widgets you want to have on a view.
NTA provides two basic types of views, Summary views and Detail views.
Using the Flow Navigator, you can create custom traffic views directly from any NetFlow view. You can configure your custom traffic view to include devices, applications, time periods, and more from one configuration pane.
Summary views
Display traffic details on all nodes and interfaces managed by NTA, such as top applications, conversations, and endpoints. You can access your summary views either in My Dashboards > NetFlow, or by clicking an item in another view. For example, clicking on an application in the Top 5 Applications Summary view displays a summary view covering the use of the selected application in all nodes monitored in NTA.
You can open the following summary views in My Dashboard > NetFlow:
The first view displayed when you launch NTA. It provides insight into data traffic conditions over your entire network.
Enable the NTA Summary view.
If the SolarWinds Platform Web Console does not display the NTA Summary view by default, use the following steps to enable it:
- In the SolarWinds Platform Web Console, click Settings > All Settings.
- Under User Accounts, click Manage Accounts.
- Select Admin, and then click Edit.
- Under Default Menu Bar and Views, locate NetFlow Tab Menu Bar.
- Select NTA_TabMenu.
- Click Submit at the bottom of the page.
- Click My Dashboards > NetFlow to display the NTA Summary view.
Provides insight into the traffic associated with applications monitored by NTA.
Provides insight into the traffic associated with conversations monitored by NTA.
Provides insight into the traffic associated with countries.
Provides insight into the traffic associated with endpoints monitored in NTA.
Provides insight into the traffic associated with IP address groups monitored by NTA.
Provides insight into the traffic associated with protocols monitored in NTA.
Summarizes the traffic received by all endpoints monitored in NTA.
Provides insight into the traffic generated by all endpoints monitored in NTA.
Provides the insight into the traffic associated with types of service.
Summarizes traffic details for autonomous systems and autonomous system conversations in your network.
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Clicking My Dashboards > NetFlow > Flow Sources opens the Flow sources management page where you can select interfaces for NetFlow monitoring.
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Clicking My Dashboards > NetFlow > CBQoS Polling opens the CBQoS polling management page where you can select interfaces for CBQoS monitoring.
Detail views
Display traffic information on individual objects in your network, such as interface details, node details, and application details. You can access your detail views by opening a summary view, and then clicking on the object whose details you want to see.
Widgets
A widget is a building block of your views. It displays on your views as a box and provides information about different aspects of traffic monitoring, usually in a chart and a table. Some widgets are meant to be used on summary views, some are suitable for detail views, and some can be useful on both view types. The information shown pertains to either all devices NTA monitors (if used on a summary view) or to the selected object (if used on a detail view for a node, interface, conversation, application, CBQoS class, or other object).
For detailed information about each widget and instruction on how to manage widgets, see