User manual SONICWALL SONICOS 5.8 REAL-TIME VISUALIZATION DASHBOARD FEATURE MODULE REV A

[. . . ] Real-Time Visualization Dashboard in SonicOS 5. 8 What is the Visualization Dashboard? The SonicWALL Visualization Dashboard offers administrators an effective and efficient interface to visually monitor their network in real time. The Visualization Dashboard provides effective flow charts of real-time data, customizable rules, and flexible interface settings. Administrators can efficiently view and sort real-time network and bandwidth data to accomplish a variety of tasks which include: · · · Identify applications and websites with high bandwidth demands View application usage on a per-user basis Anticipate attacks and threats encountered by the network The App Flow Monitor and Real-Time Monitor are new features available in the SonicWALL Visualization Dashboard. Each feature contains unique, real-time data streaming qualities that improve upon the existing Visualization Dashboard. [. . . ] In that column, the name of the Users connected to the network are shown. Sessions: Displays how many sessions are currently active. Packets: Displays the number of data packets transferred. Bytes: Displays the number of bytes transferred. Rate (KBps): Displays the rate at which data is transferred. Threats: Displays the number of threats encountered by the network. Total: Displays the total Sessions, Packets, and Bytes sent during the duration of the current interval. · · · · · · SonicOS 5. 8 Visualization Feature Guide 7 App Flow Monitor Application Details Each item listed in the Main Column provides a link to an Application Detail dialog. A display appears when the item links are clicked. The dialog provides: · · · · a description of the item. information pertaining to the category, threat level, type of technology the item falls under, and other additional information. a Wikipedia excerpt about the selected item. Application details are particularly useful when an Administrator does not recognize the name of an Application. Graph View The Graph View displays the top applications and the percentage of bandwidth used. The percentage of bandwidth used is determined by taking the total amount of bandwidth used by the top applications, and dividing that total by the amount of top applications. 8 SonicOS 5. 8 Visualization Feature Guide App Flow Monitor Flow Chart View The Flow Chart View provides details about bandwidth usage for the top applications. Applications are plotted according to bytes transferred. Each application is represented by a particular color and are visible in the legend located in the lower-left corner of the Flow Chart. Options are available to Lock/Unlock, Display, Scale, and View the App Flow Monitor Flow Chart. Option Lock Unlock Display Widget Description Locks the Display options for the Flow Chart interface. Unlocks the Display options for the Flow Chart interface. Displays all, multiple, or individual items in the flow chart. The list of individual items vary depending on the tab that is selected. Scale Allows for Auto Y-Scaling or customized scaling. The values for customized scaling must be a numeric integer. If a unit is desired, these are the available options: · · · · K for Kilo. To customize the Color Palette: · · · Export Print Configure Enter the desired hexadecimal color codes in the provided text fields. [. . . ] Displays the Multi-Core Monitor data in a bar graph format. Displays the Multi-Core Monitor data in a flow chart format. Formats Administrators are able to view the Multi-Core Monitor flow chart in a bar graph format or flow chart format. The bar graph format displays data pertaining to individual Cores in a bar graph. In this graph the x-axis displays the Cores where the y-axis displays the percentage of CPU used. SonicOS 5. 8 Visualization Feature Guide 17 Real-Time Monitor The flow chart format overlaps the Multi-Core Monitor data. [. . . ]