: Prisma SD-WAN Summary
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Prisma SD-WAN Summary

Let us learn about the Prisma SD-WAN summary dashboard.
Where Can I Use This?What Do I Need?
  • Prisma SD-WAN
  • Active Prisma SD-WAN license
The Prisma SD-WAN Dashboard provides a high-level summary and graphical view of the Prisma SD-WAN Controller connectivity status of your branch and data center devices and network insights of the branch sites across tenants. The dashboard displays the link quality metrics across your sites and app utilization for the ingress and egress traffic. The dashboard also shows the alarms generated and the status of Autonomous DEM.
Prisma SD-WAN allows administrators to create policies by enabling dynamic path selection using the highest-performing network and providing visibility into applications and systems' availability and performance. The ION devices deployed in line with the WAN edge in a network automatically detect the application and measure application performance for each application flow.
This is the default screen when you first access the Prisma SD-WAN. The data is refreshed every five (5) minutes.
The Dashboard displays the following charts:

Device To Controller Connectivity

The Device To Controller Connectivity widget depicts the number of Online and Offline ION devices connected to the Prisma SD-WAN controller for a Branch and Data Center. Using this interactive graph, you can view the online or offline status for a claimed device for the corresponding branch and data center.

Application Utilization

The Application Utilization widget displays information about the application utilization at the site during the period. The total application ingress and egress traffic for the selected time range is displayed along with the top 10 applications. The total bandwidth utilization, ingress, egress, and percentage of total traffic are based on the bandwidth utilization for each application. You can view flow information or time series utilization data can be viewed by clicking the ellipses.

Network Insights from Past Week

The Network Insights from Past Week widget displays network insights or reports for the past week. This widget displays insights for all branch sites across a tenant. You can view insights for a branch site on the Circuit Metrics widget on the Site Summary dashboard. For more intelligent insights, subscribe to AIOps.

Top Sites By Alarms

The Top Sites By Alarms widget enables you to group your top branch and data center sites with the number of alarms generated for the corresponding site. You can click a branch or data center site to see all the alarms generated under the Faults (Alarms) and Alerts.

Autonomous DEM Status

The Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM) monitoring for Remote Networks agent is delivered from the Prisma SD-WAN device software. The ADEM for Remote Networks agent provides visibility into cloud infrastructure performance, application performance, and user traffic monitoring. This feature is available if ADEM is enabled for a site.

Link Quality Details

Based on thelink quality metrics chosen, filter the data based on Interval, Start Time, Aggregation, and Direction. The interactive dashboard allows you to change the metric to any other link quality metrics to view the corresponding graphs. The last distribution range of the bar graphs up to the 90th percent of the available data.
The active Links table lets you view all secure fabric links between two sites and Circuit and WAN information. You can also view the link quality metrics and Link Type for each link. You can sort the table information based on a particular link quality metric displaying the corresponding worst value on top. Expand the site detail to view the link quality metrics for ingress and egress flows. It enables you to view the link quality chart per site and active path. The chosen site and path are the pre-selected filter criteria for the Activity chart that displays the corresponding information.

Bandwidth Utilization

The Bandwidth Utilization chart displays the amount of bandwidth utilized on a trail in a network. Use the chart to identify WAN congestion in a network that may hinder application performance. It is a visual representation of bandwidth spike, total bandwidth consumed by a particular site, and the application; if the upload is in ingress or egress direction.
Move your cursor in the Bandwidth Utilization chart to get a more granular view of the bandwidth utilization with an application or time-stamp. Typically, the apps are listed in order of their bandwidth utilization.
The chart displays the bandwidth consumed over time. The 1H view provides granular per minute data, and the 1D picture shows data every 5 minutes. The 1D chart data averages above 5 minutes for each sample. If utilization sustains above 5 minutes, you can see the corresponding peak utilization in both charts.
Select Circuits to view and narrow down the traffic by a circuit path such as the Internet and Private WAN.
The broken line indicates the configured bandwidth for the selected circuit.

Transactional Stats

The Transaction Stats chart provides transaction statistics on TCP flows, including initiation/transaction successes and failures for a specific application or all applications, a particular path or all paths, and all health events.
It measures the performance and availability of networks and applications that run on network paths. For each request on a given path, Prisma SD-WAN monitors, in real-time, the transaction error rates for initiation and data transfer transactions. You can view the list of Apps by their bandwidth utilization or by path. You can filter out successful transactions to get a granular view of transaction failure stats.
The chart displays the count of successful or failed transactions for the following categories:
  • Init Sucessful—Successful completion of the three-way handshake.
  • TXNs Sucessful—Successful transfer of data after the completion of the three-way handshake.
  • Init Failure—Failure to complete the three-way handshake. Reasons for failure may include a misconfiguration firewall, an application server issue, a misconfiguration network access control list, or a WAN network provider issue.
  • TXNs Failure—Unsuccessful transfer of data after the completion of the three-way handshake. Reasons for failure can include a mis-configured firewall, an application server issue, a mis-configured network access control list, or a WAN network provider issue.

New Flows

The New Flows chart displays new TCP and UDP flows for an application, a specific set of applications, or all applications for a given period. A TCP flow is considered a new flow when it sees the first SYN packet. A UDP flow is considered a new flow when it sees the first UDP packet in either direction. A flow is a sequence of packets in both directions identified by the source and destination IP, source and destination port, and the protocol.
The New Flows charts are used to:
  • Analyze a site in terms of connections per second.
  • Monitor any unlikely increase in the number of flows for a particular application, such as DNS or any critical application, which could be a sign of malicious activity.

Concurrent Flows

The Concurrent Flow chart helps to understand how many connections are active on your network by application. The chart provides a granular view by TCP and UDP flows for an application, a specific set of applications, or all applications. Concurrent flows are the currently active flows, including all new flows and mature flows in the system.
The Concurrent Flows charts are used to:
  • Analyze a site in terms of connections per second.
  • Monitor any unlikely increase in the number of flows for a particular application, such as DNS or any critical application, which could be a sign of malicious activity.