Network area overview
The Network area overview consists of the following screens:
In the upper right corner, you can change the time settings.
Overview
Overview displays an overview of metric data collected from monitored network devices over the selected time period.
By default, data for all monitored is included. To narrow the displayed data down, click the All drop-down list and select Wired Devices or Wireless Devices.
By default, the page is automatically refreshed. You can see the last updated stamp in the upper right corner. To pause the refresh, click the pause button next to the time stamp.
Overview widgets
The following widgets provide an overview of the health and performance of monitored environment.
Network Devices by Status
- Review, how many monitored devices have bad, good, or moderate healthscore.
- Click the widget title to see all network devices. Click the health score to view network devices with appropriate health score.
Anomalies
Review the number of detected instances of anomalous behavior. Click the number to go to the Events and review individual Anomaly events.
Active Alerts
An overview of the active alerts triggered by network devices, categorized by severity. Active alerts are alerts that have been triggered but not cleared. This includes acknowledged alerts. For more information about the entity's active alerts, click the widget title or click the vertical ellipsis (
) in the upper-right corner of the widget and click View All Active Alerts.
Config Changes
If you have configured devices to send configurations to SolarWinds Observability SaaS, you will see the number of configuration changes that happened in the specified time window. See Monitor device configurations.
Overview tabs
Network Availability and Throughput
Review availability and throughput details.
- Top interfaces by percent utilization
- Top errors and discards
- Top devices by response time
- Top devices by packet loss
Top Flows
Review information from devices that export flow data.
- Top endpoints by traffic
- Top applications by traffic
- Top advanced applications by traffic
Top Access Points
Review information on access points
- Top access points by the number of clients
- Top access points by traffic
SD-WAN
- Review how many monitored tunnels are up and how many are down.
- Review the number of monitored uplinks that are up or unplugged.
VPN
Review the number and status of site-to-site VPNs (unknown, up, or inactive) and remote vpns.
Overview - Flows
If you collect NetFlow on your devices, the following metrics can be displayed in the Flows area overview. Metrics are collected from all observed entities, based on the Orion.Netflow.Flows.Bytes metric. See Flows.
To see flow sources on topology maps, see Highlight flow data on topology maps.
For more details, see Flow widgets.
You can filter flow data to display only communication inside the organization, communication outside of the organization, or all flow data. Select an option in the Traffic Direction filter. See Flow filters for details.
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East/West: Only flows from within the organization are displayed.
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North/South: Only flows regarding communication outside of the organization are displayed.
Overview - VLANS
If you add VLANs for monitoring in your Network Collector Web Console, the Network area overview includes a VLANS tab with a list of all VLANs on devices monitored in SolarWinds Observability SaaS.
Click a VLAN to see more details, such as the VLAN state, name, and the network device that hosts it.
Click the expanded VLAN to display the Inspector Panel with more details about the device, such as IP address, machine type, machine vendor, health score, average response time, CPU utilization, memory utilization, availability, or packet loss.
Click a network device to go to the network device details view where you can see more details in the VLANS tab. See VLANS.
Overview - Load Balancers
If you add F5 Load Balancers for monitoring in your Network Collector Web Console, the Network area overview includes a Load Balancers tab with the load balancing overview. See Monitor load balancers for details.
Devices
Review a list of monitored devices and devices that were discovered.
Devices - Managed
Review the health status for all devices or device type groups, such as routers, switches, wireless controllers, or firewalls.
The All Devices tile lists all monitored network devices, by default in the List View.
- To only display specific devices, use Vendor, Machine Type, or Location filters. Click the filter icon and specify what devices should be displayed.
- To find a specific device, type a name or a tag into the search field.
- To switch to Grid View, click the Grid View icon next to the search field.
- To group devices in the Grid View, select an item in the Group by drop-down list. You can group devices by vendor, location, machine type, device type, or display all devices in one widget (Group by: None).
Device type tiles, such as Router, Switch, Wireless Controller, Firewall, SD-WAN, Load Balancer, UPS, ACI, UCS...
- Click a device type tile to filter the displayed data. Network Overview filtered by a device type shows a Grid View of devices of the selected type, such as routers, switches, or firewalls.
- Use available filters and search options. Within the selected device type, you can also group and sort the devices.
See Monitor network devices for entities and elements you can monitor.
Group network devices within a device type group (Grid view only)
In the Group by drop-down, select what you want to group the displayed health score data by:
- Vendor: The widgets display health score for the selected group of devices, filtered by vendor, such as Cisco or Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Location: The widgets display health score for the selected group of devices, filtered by location.
- Machine type: The widgets display health score for the selected group of devices, filtered by machine type, such as Cisco 7206 VXR, or Palo Alto Networks PA-200 series firewall.
Sort network devices within a device type group (Grid view only)
In the Sort by drop-down, select how the data should be sorted:
- Name ascending - health score groups are sorted alphabetically, starting with A down to Z
- Name descending - health score groups are sorted alphabetically, starting with Z down to A
- Health score ascending - health score groups with the greatest number of devices in bad state are displayed first, followed by health score groups with the highest number of devices in moderate state and then health score groups with devices in good state. Devices with unknown health score are not taken into account.
- Health score descending - health score groups with the greatest number of devices in good state are displayed first, followed by moderate health score, ending with bad state.
Devices - Discovered
The Discovered tab is only displayed for Network Collector 2024.2.10. If you cannot see the tab, upgrade your collector.
The Discovered tab shows all discovered entities (network devices or hosts) on a connected Network Collector with their status:
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Imported: Entities that are already monitored.
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Found: Entities that were discovered and are not monitored yet.
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Changed: Entities with new elements, such as interfaces or volumes, discovered.
Click an entity to display more details, such as a list of discovered interfaces, volumes, or other discovered elements (highlighted with a plus icon).
Use filters to filter discovered entities by their properties, such as status, machine type, or discovery profile.
Select the new or updated entities you want to monitor and click Import.
Topology
The Discovered tab provides a map where you can easily view and troubleshoot issues on a map representing your Layer 2 and Layer 3 interconnected network devices and servers.
Click Network > Topology to see all nodes in your organization on an auto-generated map. By default, network devices are grouped by the Network Collector used to monitor them.
See Monitor nodes on maps (Topology) for details.
NetPath
Click NetPath to see paths to endpoints defined in your organization. See Monitor critical network paths (NetPath).
IP Management
If you are monitoring IP addresses using your Network Collector or your Platform-connected SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted, IP management data is available in SolarWinds Observability SaaS.
The Platform Connect must be configured to enable monitoring IP Management data and the devices must be added for monitoring in the Network Collector web console or in the Platform-connected SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted. See Monitor IP Addresses.
Overview
View a summary of IP utilization across all subnets and scopes. The overview includes:
- Top subnets by percentage of used IP addresses
- Top scopes by IP utilization
DHCP Servers
View a list of DHCP servers with basic detais, such as server type, IP address, failover status, number of scopes, or IP utilization.
To view more details about a server, click the server.
Configuration Management
Overview
Review configurations, configuration changes, or configuration backup history for devices in your environment. See Monitor device configurations.
To gather configurations, enable configuration management for nodes by marking them as "NCM nodes". See Set up configuration monitoring (Network Collector) or Add nodes as NCM nodes.
Config Explorer
Review the startup and running configurations of network devices with monitored configurations. For each configuration, you can see the device, its vendor, the configuration type, backup status, last backup date, and any conflicts between startup and running configurations. See Monitor device configurations.