Chapter 5. User Guide

5.1. Main screen - Overview

After successful login, you will see the main screen dialog window. In the "Main screen" you will see all collectors, their state and some traffic statistics (Packets, Bytes, Flows and Rows counters). If you see any warnings, click on that link and find out what is wrong. Bad status is checked only for current hour. Near the collector's status line you can find icons which can signify that collector is using forwarding and/or filtering features.

Figure 5.1. Main screen window.

Main screen window.

In the "Section 4.1, “Global settings”" you can enable/disable displaying of utilization graphs on the overview page. The bytes (1-4) and packets (5) utilization histories are displayed under collector status. In each graph you can see its average (1), maximum (2) value, 5 minute utilization (3) and globally maximum value(4). The globally maximum utilization value is stored in the database for up to 90 days. Graph color depends on the utilization value (low value - green, middle value - yellow and high value - red).

Click on the overview graph icon to display a detail overview. In the detail overview menu you will see 6 hours utilization history, many prepared actions (i.e. top conversations, top source or destination hosts, top interfaces). You may also delete complete utilization history by click on the "Delete utilization history" link.

Figure 5.2. Collector overview detail.

Collector overview detail.

You can select various items from the main menu:

  • Data - traffic queries, information about IP addresses, graphs etc.
  • Profiles - trends and search profiles.
  • Exports - managing stored exports.
  • Anomalies - view list of detected network anomalies.
  • Status - state of engine, units, collectors and database.
  • Options - configuration of this system.
  • Help - documentation, license management, bug reporting etc.
  • Logout - close session to web interface.