User`s guide

Monitoring Examples
7-12 Managing and Monitoring Your Network
Monitoring Examples
WhenyouclickontheMonitortoolbaroption.youwillnoticeseveraldifferentsectionsorviews.
EachviewisadifferentwaytoexaminedatathatRASMcaptures.Themonitordashboard
includesthefollowingviews:
•StatusSummary
•AlarmSummary
•ClientSummary
•TrafficSummary
Eachviewprovidesanswerstospecificquestions;forexample,how
manyclientsconnectedover
thelasthour,andwhichswitchhasthemosttrafficload? TheAlarmsSummary,Clients,and
Trafficsectionsprovidebuttonssothatyoucanswitchbetweengraphicalandtabularviewsinthe
samepanel.Thesebuttonsallowyoutoseethedatabehindeachgraph.
RASMprovides
manymonitoringoptions.Thissectiondescribeshowyoucanusesomeofthe
monitoringtoolstodetermineproblemsthataretypicallyreportedtoanetworkoperator.
Themonitoringexamplesdescribedinthissectionarebasedonthefollowingscenarios:
•Anindividualusercallsthehelpdeskwiththecomplaintthatthe
networkisveryslowor
inaccessible
•Agroupofuserscomplainaboutnetworkperformance
Client Summary View
Traffic Summary View
Alarm Summary View
Status Summary View