Application Visibility and Dashboard

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Enable Application Visibility ...... 1 Monitor Conferencing Applications From Dashboard ...... 1 Application Experience ...... 2 Monitor All Applications ...... 3 Application Traffic ...... 3 Clients with Most Application Traffic ...... 3 Application Visibility and Dashboard (Applicable to software release 8.9.0 and higher)

CloudVision WiFi (CVW) uses deep packet inspection to gain visibility into applications being used by WiFi clients. Application visibility gives you data on the usage and performance of applications. To see applications on the DASHBOARD, you must enable Application Visibility and optionally enable Application Firewall Rules while configuring the SSID. Note that if you enable Application Firewall Rules, then, by default the Application Visibility checkbox gets enabled and the field is grayed out.

Enable Application Visibility 1. Navigate to CONFIGURE > WiFi. 2. Click Add SSID. 3. Click the Analytics tab and select the Application Visibility checkbox.

Monitor Conferencing Applications From Dashboard After enabling application visibility, you can monitor the health of conferencing applications using the Application Health widget in DASHBOARD > Applications.

Note: You can view only the conferencing applications from the DASHBOARD. All other applications can be monitored from MONITOR > WiFi > Application Visibility.

The Application Health widget contains a card for each application. Each card shows the number of clients with good and bad application experiences, and a progress bar indicating good or bad application experience in the last 2 hours.

You can monitor the following conferencing applications from the DASHBOARD:

Skype – The Skype application contributes to both Skype and Skype for business. GoToMeeting Hangouts Slack WebEx Microsoft Teams Zoom

You can view a maximum of five cards on the Applications Health widget. Note that this is a system-wide setting or global setting; all users in an organization will see the same applications on their dashboard. So, you have to prioritize which applications you want to display on the widget. In the Application Health widget, click the Applications dropdown list and select the applications that you want to view on the cards.

Each card shows a progress bar with two colors, red and green. Red indicates the affected clients,

© Arista Networks | 1 whereas green indicates the unaffected clients. Hover on the progress bar to view the percentage of users who faced poor application experience. Below the progress bar, the number in black indicates the total number of clients using the particular application. The number in red indicates the total number of affected clients. You can drill down to the client detail chart by clicking on this number.

You can also view the application health for a specific SSID using the SSID filter (it’s set to “All SSIDs” by default). Select All SSIDs to see a graph of the aggregated data for all SSIDs and all applications.

The data can also be filtered based on frequency band. Selecting a band shows you the data for all applications running on the band. The possible values for frequency filter are:

2.4 GHz 5 GHz 2.4 and 5 GHz

Select the icon for any application to drill down to application details. The application details are provided using the following charts:

Baseline – Clients Affected by Poor App Experience: Considers all seven applications. Baseline – Poor App Experience Application Traffic: It displays the data usage of the selected application. Refer to the Application Traffic section for more information. Application Traffic – Clients Application Traffic – Sessions Application Traffic – Quality of Experience Clients with Most Application Traffic

Application Experience The Application Experience chart shows the overall client experience for all seven applications. The information is provided using a separate progress bar for every application. The progress bar is in two colors, red and green. Red indicates bad application experience, whereas green indicates good application experience.

Hover on the bar to view details of the conferencing applications. The detail contains:

You can also filter the data on the Application Experience widget based on SSID and time.

Monitor All Applications You can monitor an application from the list of applications on the Application Visibility tab.

1. Go to MONITOR > WiFi > Application Visibility. 2. Click on the name of the application that you want to monitor.

A page providing detailed application information is displayed as follows:

Application Traffic – Shows application data usage over time. Clients with Most Application Traffic – Shows the top 10 clients using the selected application.

Application Traffic The Application Traffic widget displays the data used by the selected application for the selected period of time. The data is shown in a bar graph and it is refreshed every 15 minutes. The data is specific to access points on the selected folder or floor.

You can view or retrieve data using the three filters: SSID, Frequency Filter, and Time Filter. Use the Start Live button for live data. Live data is plotted every 3 seconds. If you hover the mouse over the graph, you can get a quick view of the data consumed by the selected application at that instant.

Clients with Most Application Traffic The Clients with Most Application Traffic widget displays a list of the clients with the highest usage of the selected application with additional information on these clients. The number on the top left corner