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Device Manager Guide, Cisco ACE 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance
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Chapter 14 Monitoring Your Network
Using Dashboards to Monitor the ACE System and Virtual Contexts
Context Resource Usage Graph
The Context Resource Usage graph displays the details of each resource type utilized by the selected
contexts. For each resource type, the graph includes the following monitoring statistics: Used, Global
Available, and Guaranteed. This data is collected by DM by using the ACE show resource usage CLI
command.
To toggle the display of the Context Resource Usage graph in the monitoring window:
• Click View As Chart to display the object data as a graph.
• Click View As Grid to display the object data as a numerical line grid.
Note If you want to save the graph as a JPEG file for archive or other purposes, click the Show As Image
button. When you mouse over the graph, the Image Toolbar appears. From the Image Toolbar, you can
save the graph as a JPEG or send it in an email. You can also print the graph if desired.
If you want to export object data to Microsoft Excel for archive or other purposes, click the Export to
Excel link in the View As Grid object display.
Hyperlinks allow you to access the individual resource usage page for more details (see the “Monitoring
Resource Usage” section on page 14-17).
Note ACL Memory and Application Acceleration for the ACE appliance do not appear in the Device Resource
Usage graph. To view the detailed counters, click the hyperlink to access individual resource usage page.
Load Balancing Servers Performance Graphs
The Load Balancing Servers Performance graphs (Figure 14-4) include:
• Top 5 Virtual Servers—Displays the top five virtual servers in the selected virtual context. You can
select from server statistics (such as High Connection Rate, Dropped Connection Rate, and so on)
that are collected by DM polling for top performance evaluation.
• Top 5 Real Servers—Displays the top five real servers in the selected virtual context. You can select
from server statistics (such as High Connection Rate, Dropped Connection Rate, and so on) that are
collected by DM polling for top performance evaluation.
You select the statistic from the Select Statistics drop-down list.
To toggle the display of a Load Balancing Servers Performance graph in the monitoring window:
• Click View As Chart to display the object data as a graph.
• Click View As Grid to display the object data as a numerical line grid.
Note If you want to save the graph as a JPEG file for archive or other purposes, click the Show As Image
button. When you mouse over the graph, the Image Toolbar appears. From the Image Toolbar, you can
save the graph as a JPEG or send it in an email. You can also print the graph if desired.
If you want to export object data to Microsoft Excel for archive or other purposes, click the Export to
Excel link in the View As Grid object display.