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PathView CloudTips and Tricks

October 4th, 2011

Instant-Value Network Performance Management

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Topics

• Saved Lists

• Scheduled Reports

• Tree maps

• Advanced Assessments

• New Notification formats

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Saved Lists

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What is a Saved List?

• Dynamic grouping of paths for reporting and analysis

Think Playlists for Paths

• Two types, Static Lists and Smart Lists– Smart Lists are based on Path Attributes and update

automatically

– Static lists are manually selected lists that do not change unless you change them

Gear Icon indicates a Smart List

Page Icon indicates a Static List

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Where can Saved Lists be used?

• On Demand Reporting

• Scheduled Report Generation and Distribution

• Path Lists

• Treemaps

Saved Lists will be required for upcoming features

• Intelligent Notifications

• Application based Reporting

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Easiest way to create a Saved List• Click “Edit Filter” list in Report header

Choose an existing Saved List

Create and save a Smart List

Create and save a Static List

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Scheduled Reports

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Reports that can be Scheduled

• Service Quality Summary– SQD Compliance

– Violation Breakdown

– Top Offenders

• Performance Overview

• Path Detail Dashboard– One or more Path

Performance Reports

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Report Scheduling OptionsDelivery Schedule

• Daily

• Weekly

• Bi-Weekly

• Monthly

Timeframe for report automatically set by delivery schedule

Path Selection•Saved Lists for multi-Path reports

•Selected Paths for individual Path reports

To and CC AddressesUsers do not need PathView Accounts

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Treemaps

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What are Treemaps?

• Data visualization to view status and trending of large volumes of data

• Map of the Market – all 500 stocks from the S&P

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How Treemaps are used in PathView

• Home Screen to show Current Performance

• Partner Home Screen to view all end users on a single screen

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How to read a Treemap

The Basics

2.Color: Indicates the current SQD compliance of the Path– Green – Currently in compliance with all aspects of SQD

– Red – One or more performance aspects are violated

– Black – Target of path is offline

– Gray – Appliance is offline

3.Details: Click on a square to view the performance details to the right, selected path with have a yellow outline

– Select an SQD metric in the details or click the arrows to cycle through performance charts from past 30 minutes

– SQD metrics in red are currently in violation

– Double click a square or click the path name in the details to go to the full performance charts

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How to read a Treemap

Advanced Controls

2.Size – Control in top right corner of treemap to select– Importance : 1 – 10 ranking of how critical the path is to the

organization, larger numbers are bigger

– Number of Violations : The more violations, the larger the square. If a path has no violations it will not be shown

3.Grouping– Select the attribute for how Paths are grouped in the Treemap

– Saved Lists : If a path is in multiple Saved Lists they will be shown multiple times in the treemap

4.Zoom In / Out– Click on a group header to zoom in to that group for a larger view

– Click again on the header for the complete treemap

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Advanced Assessments

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Advanced Assessments are Voice Only

All Voice Assessments are now

under the AppView Voice menu

Advanced assessments require AppView Voice to be licensed for the Appliances involved

The Basics

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Advanced Assessment Capabilities

Advanced Assessments have some advanced scheduling commands:•Create and Save•Run Assessment Again

A summary Advances Assessment results can be viewed in the Web UI

Detailed results for ramp

testing and any path with

Poor performance automatically included in Assessment Report

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New Notification Enhancements

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Administrative Notification Capabilities

Administrative Accounts are able to view and modify the notification settings of other users in Organizations they manage

From the Admin Menu, choose

Manage Users

From the “Action” drop down at the right

choose “Edit Notification Options” for the

User you would like to edit

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New Notification Options

Notification Profiles – Define custom rules for how and when notifications are sent•Define profiles for multiple Smart Lists within an organization•Partners with access to multiple Organizations can create a Default Profile for all Organizations

– One or more Custom Profiles can be created to override default

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