About the KPI Dashboard

The KPI dashboard provides a multi-site, system-level, summary of performance and operational health indicators in the CMP web based GUI. The display includes indicators for:

To display the KPI dashboard, from the main menu click KPI Dashboard. The dashboard opens in the work area.

The KPI dashboard displays the indicators for all the systems on a single page, with the KPIs for each MRA in a separate table. Each row within a table represents a single system (either an MRA server or an MPE server that is being managed by that MRA). The table cells are rendered using a color scheme to highlight areas of concern that is well adapted by the telecommunication industry. The table contents are periodically refreshed. The color changing thresholds are user configurable. The refresh rate is set to 10 seconds and is not configurable.

The following figure is an example illustrating the contents of the KPI dashboard.

KPI Dashboard

The top left corner lists each MRA with a checkbox that allows you to enable/disable the table for that MRA. In the top right corner there is a Change Thresholds button that allows you to change threshold settings used to determine cell coloring (see Changing KPI Color Threshold Levels).

Each MRA or MPE system has two rows in the table. The first row displays data for the primary (active) server in the cluster. The second row displays data for the secondary (backup) server in the cluster. Several of the KPI columns are not populated for the secondary server (since the server is not active). The only columns that contain data are: Status, CPU%, and Memory%.

If a monitored system is unreachable or if the data is unavailable then the status is set to Off-line and the values in all the associated columns are cleared. In this situation, the entire row is displayed with the error color (red). If a monitored system does not support KPI retrieval then the status is set to N/A and the values in all the associated columns are cleared and no coloring is applied.

The columns that display TPS Connections and PDN information are displayed in two forms:
1 On the MPE - the number of Diameter Requests (per second) received from the Clients). On the MRA - The number of Diameter Requests per second received from either MRA and the number of Diameter Requests per second sent to the HSS
2 The columns that display connection counts are displayed in the form "X of Y" where X is the current number of connections and Y is the configured number of connections. When X and Y are not the same, the column uses the warning color to indicate a connectivity issue, unless X is 0, in which case the error color is displayed.