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Monitoring Network usage

Learn how to monitor the utilization of your physical Network and get alerts when the amount/percentage free is too low

This page describes what's being monitored for physical Network in Nodinite, using one or more role-based Monitor Views. Nodinite monitors the state, based on user-defined thresholds, either global or specific. For managing the Network, remote commands are available as Actions. These help you swiftly manage reported problems. The implemented Remote Actions are further detailed on this page.

Network items as Resources
Example list with a monitored 'Network' resource in a Monitor View.

Monitoring Features

  • Automatic Discovery
  • State Evaluation - Based on user-defined thresholds (fixed/percentage) for a given duration
  • Category-based monitoring - To help you sort out the different type of resources, the monitored Resources are grouped by Categories

State evaluation for Networks

The monitored Network is displayed within Nodinite as a Resources. For example, if you have 3 Windows Servers being monitored with 2 network cards each, then you will have 6 'Network' resources in Nodinite.

  • The name of the Resources are the same as the names of the network cards (NIC) in Windows

  • The 'Network' resource belong to the following Category:

    Category Description
    Network Make sure the available Network is within user-defined monitoring thresholds

    Categories
    List of the Network related category as a filter in a Monitor View

  • The Application name is the Display Name from the configuration of the monitored Windows Server:
    Application Path Example

Each item (presented in Nodinite as a Resource) and is evaluated with a state. (OK, Warning, Error, Unavailable).

From within Nodinite, you can reconfigure the state evaluation on Resource level using the Expected State feature.

Note

Depending on the user-defined synchronization interval set for the Windows Server Monitoring Agent, there might be a delay before Nodinite Web Client/Monitor Views reflects upon the change. Click the Sync All button (or on the dropdown for individual agent selection) to force Nodinite to request a resynchronization request.

Sync
Option to force Nodinite to request a resynchronization request with the monitoring agent.

Monitoring Network

For the Network category, the monitored state evaluates as described in the table below:

State Status Description Actions
Unavailable Service not available If the server can't be reached and evaluated either due to network or security-related problems Review prerequisites
Error Error state raised
  • The 'Network' is disabled or has it's media disconnected
  • Error utilization threshold is breached
 Network Chart
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Warning Warning state raised Warning utilization threshold is breached Network Chart
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OK Online The 'Network' card is enabled and media is connected Network Chart
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Actions for Network

The following Remote Actions are available for the Network Category:

Actions

Edit thresholds

You can manage the alert thresholds for selected Network resource, simply click on the Action button and then click on the Edit thresholds menu item within the 'Control Center' section.

Edit thresholds Menu Action
Edit thresholds, using the 'Edit' action.

Next, click the option to present the modal.

Edit thresholds modal
Here's an example of the 'Edit thresholds' modal

Note

The thresholds are global and apply to ALL NICs

Details

You can view some details for the selected Network resource, simply click on the Action button and then click on the Details menu item within the 'Control Center' section.

Details Menu Action
Open details modal, using the 'Details' action

Next, click the option to present the modal.

Details modal
Here's an example of the 'Details' modal.

Metrics chart: Metrics

You can view some statistics about the selected Network resource, simply click on the Action button and then click on the Network Chart menu item within the 'Control Center' section.

Network Chart Menu Item
Show Network usage statistics, using the 'Network Chart' action.

Next, click the option to present the modal.

Network Performance Counters
Here's an example of statistics for the Network usage over time.

This modal is designed for the purpose of being used as a Widget in the Dashboard.

Widget on Dashboard
Network statistics example as a Widget on the Dashboard

Configuration

Use the Remote Configuration to manage the Network configuration.

Network tab

Click the Network tab to manage Network related Monitoring options.
Network Tab
Here's an example of the 'Network' tab

  • Enable Network Monitoring - When checked, enables the Monitoring of the Network overall usage of this Windows Server. Otherwise, Monitoring is disabled.

  • Threshold overrun duration - Maximum allowed duration for breached threshold in number of seconds

  • Evaluation Type -The type of evaluation for Monitoring free network

    • None - No evaluation is performed at all
    • Percentage (default)
    • Fixed

  • Percentage Warning Threshold % - When the network usage has been over this threshold for more than 120 seconds (Duration) the Warning alert is raised

  • Error Threshold % -When the network usage has been over this threshold for more than 120 seconds (Duration) the Error is raised

  • Fixed

    • Warning Threshold (Mbit/s) - When the network usage has been over this Mbit/s threshold for more than 120 seconds (Duration) the Warning alert is raised
    • Error Threshold (Mbit/s) - When the network usage has been over this Mbit/s threshold for more than 120 seconds (Duration) the Error is raised

Next Step

Add or manage Monitor View

Windows Server Monitoring Agent
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