Using the General SDWAN Summary Dashboard

Learn about the General SDWAN Summary Dashboard, the tabs and panels within the dashboard, and how to use the dashboard.

Overview

The General SDWAN Summary Dashboard provides a comprehensive view of SD-WAN inventory, device health, underlay performance, overlay tunnel health, and interface-level metrics. This dashboard helps you monitor, analyze, and optimize your SD-WAN environments by combining high-level KPIs with operational details.

The dashboard includes the following elements:

The General SD-WAN Summary Dashboard is organized into the following tabs:

Device Inventory

The Device Inventory tab provides a complete view of all SD-WAN devices discovered by Unified Assurance, including their location, status, and key identifiers.

This tab includes the following panels:

Device Inventory Scorecards

The scorecards provide an instant snapshot of the SD-WAN footprint and its operational state.

You can view the following scorecards at the top of the Device Inventory tab:

Device Map

This panel displays the global distribution of SD-WAN devices, allowing you to visualize regional presence and identify geographic concentration or gaps.

Device Count by Type

This panel provides the distribution of devices across different hardware or device types.

Device Status

This panel displays a pie chart classifying the devices based on the four operational states:

This breakdown helps you assess overall operational health and identify where follow-up may be required.

Device Status Codes

This panel is a key for the Device Status column in the Device Details panel. It shows the corresponding device status for each status code. The key is:

Devices by SDWAN Vendor

This panel shows the distribution of devices by SD-WAN vendor (currently Cisco Meraki only). This view helps you confirm vendor representation in the inventory and identify vendor concentration.

Device Details

The Device Details panel displays a table with the following information:

Selecting a device name navigates you to the SDWAN Device Overview Dashboard for deeper analysis of that specific device.

Device Health

The Device Health tab provides a complete view of the performance and availability metrics for all SD-WAN devices.

The Device Health tab has the following panels:

Device Health Scorecards

The scorecards at the top of this tab provide an instant snapshot of the following indicators for identifying capacity issues and devices at risk:

Device Status Codes

This panel is a key for the Status column in the CPU Utilization and Memory Utilization panels. It shows the corresponding device status for each status code. The key is:

CPU Utilization

This panel displays a table showing CPU metrics for devices, including:

Additional columns include IP Address, SDWAN Vendor, and Status. Use this table to identify devices consistently operating at high CPU levels (for example, CPU utilization greater than 90%).

Top 10 Devices with Highest CPU Utilization

This panel shows a horizontal bar chart highlighting the top ten devices by CPU utilization (%), letting you quickly identify the most CPU-constrained devices.

Top 10 Device with Highest CPU Utilization Over Time

This panel displays CPU utilization trends over time for the top ten devices. Use this to identify recurring spikes, correlate performance issues with time-based events, and support capacity planning.

Memory Utilization

This panel displays a table displaying memory usage metrics for devices, including:

Additional fields include IP Address, SDWAN Vendor, and Status. Use this table to identify devices consistently operating at high memory levels (for example, memory utilization greater than 90%).

Top 10 Devices with Highest Memory Utilization

This panel displays a horizontal bar chart highlighting the top ten devices by memory utilization (%), letting you quickly identify the most memory-constrained devices.

Top 10 Devices with Highest Memory Utilization Over Time

This panel displays memory utilization trends over time for the top ten devices. Use this to identify recurring spikes, correlate performance issues with time-based events, and support capacity planning.

Top 10 Interfaces with Highest Inbound Bandwidth Usage

This panel highlights the top ten interfaces with the highest inbound bandwidth consumption. Use this to identify potential congestion points and interfaces driving high inbound traffic.

Top 10 Interfaces with Highest Outbound Bandwidth Usage

This panel highlights the top ten interfaces with the highest outbound bandwidth consumption. Use this to identify potential egress bottlenecks and interfaces driving high outbound traffic.

Underlay Health

The Underlay Health tab focuses on the physical or logical WAN connectivity over which SD-WAN overlays operate.

The underlay consists of traditional WAN links such as MPLS, broadband, LTE, or DIA. The SD-WAN overlay depends on underlay performance for application quality. Metrics like availability, utilization, packet loss, latency, and jitter can directly impact your experience. Monitoring underlay health is critical for SD-WAN performance troubleshooting.

The Underlay Health tab has the following panels:

Underlay Health Scorecards

The scorecards at the top of this tab provide an instant snapshot of the following indicators for WAN link health:

This panel displays the key for WAN uplink or link states used across the dashboard, which help you interpret link status values in the underlay tables and trend visualizations. The key is:

This panel displays a table of all WAN links with following columns:

Use this table to identify unstable or frequently unavailable WAN links.

This panel visualizes WAN link status across time, with each row for a WAN link and color-coding for outages or instability. Use it to identify intermittent, recurring, or time-bound underlay issues.

This panel contains a table displaying WAN link usage and related metadata:

Use this table to support capacity planning and help identify consistently high-utilization links.

This panel displays a bar chart highlighting the top ten WAN links with the highest bandwidth usage. Use this to quickly identify the most heavily utilized uplinks and potential congestion points.

This panel displays usage trends over time for the top ten WAN links. Use this to spot peak usage windows, recurring patterns, and growth trends.

This panel contains a table displaying packet loss metrics for WAN links with the following columns:

Use this to identify links contributing to degraded application performance due to packet loss.

This panel displays a bar chart highlighting the top ten WAN links with the highest average packet loss over the selected time range.

This panel displays packet loss trends over time for the top ten WAN links, useful for identifying intermittent degradation and correlating with time-based events.

This panel contains a table displaying latency metrics for WAN links with the following columns:

Use this to identify persistently high-latency links and assess impact to interactive applications.

This panel displays a bar chart highlighting the top ten WAN links with the highest average latency over the selected time range.

This panel displays latency trends over time for the top ten WAN links to help you detect recurring spikes and time-bound degradation patterns.

This panel contains a table displaying jitter metrics for WAN links with the following columns:

Use this to identify links that may degrade real-time traffic quality (voice or video).

This panel displays a bar chart highlighting the top ten WAN links with the highest average jitter, in milliseconds, over the selected time range.

This panel displays jitter trends over time for the top ten WAN links to help you identify intermittent instability and recurring jitter patterns.

Overlay Health

The overlay is the virtual network managed by SD-WAN that is provisioned on top of the underlay. It uses encrypted tunnels (for example, IPsec tunnels) to securely connect SD-WAN devices across different sites. The overlay abstracts the complexity of the underlay and enables:

While the underlay provides connectivity, the overlay determines how traffic flows across that connectivity.

The Overlay Health tab has the following panels:

Overlay Health Scorecards

The scorecards at the top of this tab provide an instant snapshot of the following indicators for overall tunnel health:

Use these scorecards to quickly identify tunnels that may be impacting application performance.

Tunnel Status Codes

This panel displays the key for tunnel states used across the dashboard, which help you interpret tunnel status values in the overlay tables and trend visualizations. The key is:

Tunnels by Availability - Details

This panel displays an availability table for all overlay tunnels with the following columns:

Selecting a tunnel name navigates to the Tunnel tab of the corresponding SDWAN Device Overview Dashboard for deeper inspection.

Top 10 Tunnels with Highest Availability

This panel displays the top ten tunnels by highest availability, useful for quickly identifying consistently stable tunnels.

Top 10 Tunnels with Highest Availability Over Time

This panel displays availability trends over time for the top ten tunnels. Use this to identify intermittent availability issues and recurring patterns.

Tunnels by Bandwidth Usage - Details

This panel contains a table displaying tunnel usage details with the following columns:

Use this table for capacity planning and to identify tunnels that may be congested or consistently heavily utilized.

Top 10 Tunnels with Highest Average Bandwidth Usage

This panel displays a horizontal bar chart highlighting the top ten tunnels with the highest average bandwidth usage over the selected time range.

Top 10 Tunnels with Highest Average Bandwidth Usage Over Time

This panel displays bandwidth usage trends over time for the top ten tunnels, useful for spotting peaks, growth trends, and recurring high-usage periods.

Tunnels by Packet Loss - Details

This panel contains a table displaying packet loss metrics for tunnels with the following columns:

Use this table to identify tunnels that may be degrading application experience due to packet loss.

Top 10 Tunnels with Highest Average Packet Loss

This panel displays horizontal bar chart highlighting the top ten tunnels with the highest average packet loss over the selected time range.

Top 10 Tunnels with Highest Average Packet Loss Over Time

This panel displays packet loss trends over time for the top ten tunnels to help you identify intermittent degradation and correlate with time-based events.

Tunnels by Latency - Details

This panel contains a table displaying latency metrics for tunnels with the following columns:

Use this table to identify tunnels with persistent high-latency and assess potential impact to interactive applications.

Top 10 Tunnels with Highest Average Latency

This panel displays a bar chart highlighting the top ten tunnels with the highest average latency over the selected time range.

Top 10 Tunnels with Highest Average Latency Over Time

This panel displays latency trends over time for the top ten tunnels to help you detect recurring spikes and time-bound degradation patterns.

Tunnels by Jitter - Details

This panel contains a table displaying jitter metrics for tunnels with the following columns:

Use this to identify tunnels that may degrade real-time traffic quality (voice/video).

Top 10 Tunnels with Highest Average Jitter

This panel displays a bar chart highlighting the top ten tunnels with the highest average jitter over the selected time range.

Top 10 Tunnels with Highest Average Jitter Over Time

This panel displays jitter trends over time for the top ten tunnels to help you identify intermittent instability and recurring jitter patterns.

Tunnel Map

This panel displays a geographic map visualizing overlay tunnels. The map shows tunnel source and destination locations to provide a spatial understanding of SD-WAN connectivity. Hovering over a tunnel reveals detailed tunnel information. USe this for global deployments and geographic impact analysis.

Interface Overview

The Interface Overview tab provides detailed, interface-level views of traffic and performance.

This tab has the following panels:

Interface Health Scorecards

The scorecards at the top of this tab provide an instant snapshot of the following indicators for interface health:

These indicators help you to quickly identify stressed or degraded interfaces.

Top 10 Interfaces with Highest Total Traffic

This panel displays the top ten interfaces by total traffic (inbound and outbound). Use this to identify bandwidth-heavy interfaces and observe traffic growth patterns over time.

Top 10 Interfaces with Highest Performance

This panel displays network latency trends for the top ten interfaces. Use this to correlate latency spikes with traffic patterns or underlay issues.

Top 10 Interfaces with Highest Inbound Bandwidth Usage

This panel displays a bar chart highlighting the top ten interfaces with the highest inbound bandwidth usage. Use this to quickly identify interfaces receiving the most traffic.

Top 10 Interfaces with Highest Outbound Bandwidth Usage

This panel displays a bar chart highlighting the top ten interfaces with the highest outbound bandwidth usage. Use this to quickly identify the busiest egress interfaces.

Interface Details

This panel contains a table with the following columns:

Use this table for precise troubleshooting and performance validation at the interface level.