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Discovery 4: Lab - View and Customize Dashboards: Time For A Lab Activity!

This document outlines a lab exercise for using Cisco EPN Manager dashboards to monitor network performance. It includes tasks for utilizing existing dashboards, creating new dashboards, and generating performance graphs, with step-by-step procedures for each task. The activities aim to enhance understanding of network monitoring features and customization options within the Cisco EPN Manager interface.

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Discovery 4: Lab - View and Customize Dashboards: Time For A Lab Activity!

This document outlines a lab exercise for using Cisco EPN Manager dashboards to monitor network performance. It includes tasks for utilizing existing dashboards, creating new dashboards, and generating performance graphs, with step-by-step procedures for each task. The activities aim to enhance understanding of network monitoring features and customization options within the Cisco EPN Manager interface.

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Discovery 4: Lab - View and Customize Dashboards

Time for a lab activity!

Introduction
Complete this lab exercise to practice what you learned in the “Using Dashboards” section of this course. In this
activity, you will learn how to use the various monitoring features of Cisco EPN Manager.

Lab Topology
Task 1: Use a Dashboard
The purpose of this task is to use the Cisco EPN Manager dashboards to monitor the network.

Activity Procedure
Complete these steps:

Step 1
From the jump host, open the Google Chrome web browser and click the Cisco EPN Manager bookmark
(https://epnm-40.lab.local) on the toolbar to access your Cisco EPN Manager server.

Step 2
Log in as user root with the password Pass1234.

Step 3
From the menu, choose Dashboard > Network Summary > Network Devices.

The Network Summary set of dashboards is displayed, with the Network Devices tab selected. (This might be
the page that you selected as your home page.)
Step 4
At the top of the page, the Metrics dashlet provides high-level status information. Click the > icon to view all
metrics (if not all are already displayed).

Step 5
Change the Time Frame to Past 1 Hour and notice how it changes the zoom on the dashlets. By default, all
dashlets display information based on the global Time Frame setting selected. Changes to the Time Frame filter
are reflected in all dashlets.

Step 6
On the Top N CPU Utilization dashlet, change Zoom to 1d. Note that this action does not change Zoom on any
other dashlet or the Time Frame Filter.

Step 7
Click the Pencil icon and edit the Top N CPU Utilization dashlet to show only Average, Maximum, and Current
utilization. Click Save and Close.
Step 8
Move the Network Topology dashlet to the top left by dragging it (click and hold the mouse and then drag).
Often it is easier to move dashlets by first minimizing them.

Step 9
Click a device IP in the Top N CPU Utilization dashlet. What page is displayed?
_______________________________________________

A: Dashboard > Device Trends page

Step 10
Use the browser back button to return to the Network Summary dashboard.

Step 11
Click the Incidents tab.
Step 12
Review the dashlets. If you do not have any alarms, use the PuTTY application on the jump host desktop to
connect to one of the PE devices and shut an interface.

Step 13
Click a dashlet graph pie slice to navigate to the Alarms and Events browser, where you can see details.

Step 14
Click the browser back button to return to the Network Summary dashboard.

Step 15
From the menu, choose Dashboard > Device Trends > Device. The Device Trends set of dashlets is
displayed, with the Device tab selected.

Step 16
Choose one of the PE devices from the Devices drop-down menu.
Step 17
Choose a time period from the Time Frame drop-down menu, and click Go.

Step 18
Review the dashlets for various performance metrics for the selected device.
Step 19
From the menu, choose Dashboard > DWDM/OTN Performance > Optical Physical.

Step 20
Click the Interface drop-down menu. In the Device Name filter field, enter tcc191, and in the Interface Name
filter field, enter 1-5-2.
Step 21
Choose the filtered entry. Set the Time Frame to Past 1 Hour and click Apply.

Step 22
Scroll down to review the information.
Activity Verification
You have completed this task when you attain this result:
You have reviewed some of the available dashboards for monitoring the status and health of the network.

Task 2: Create a Dashboard


The purpose of this task is to learn how to create a dashboard containing the dashlets that you want. Note that
these methods could also be used to customize existing dashboards.

Activity Procedure
Complete these steps:

Step 1
From the menu, choose Dashboard > Network Summary > Network Devices or, if this was your home page,
simply click the Home icon.

Step 2
Click the + tab to create a new dashboard.

Step 3
Enter a name of My Dashboard <your-initials> for your dashboard and click Apply.

Step 4
From the Settings menu (which should still be displayed), expand Add or Remove Metric Dashlet(s). Expand
the Network menu and add the Alarm Summary dashlet.

Step 5
Expand Add Dashlet(s), expand the submenu items, and add the dashlets that you want.

Step 6
After all dashlets are added, close the Settings menu and minimize each dashlet. Then move them to the
position where you want them to reside and expand them again.

Step 7
Reopen the Settings menu and expand Layout Template.
Step 8
Choose a layout.

Step 9
Close the Settings menu.

Step 10
In the upper-right corner of the Cisco EPN Manager desktop, click the Gear icon, and then choose Set Current
Page as Home.
Step 11
Navigate to Inventory > Device Management > Network Devices.

Step 12
Click the Home icon to verify that your home page has been set to your new dashboard.

Activity Verification
You have completed this task when you attain this result:
You have successfully created a new dashboard.

Task 3: Create a Performance Graph


The purpose of this task is to use performance graphs to gather performance information.

Activity Procedure
Complete these steps:

Step 1
From the menu, choose Monitor > Monitoring Tools > Performance Graphs.

Step 2
If the help overlay is displayed, click Okay, got it.

Step 3
Click the + tab to create a new graph. Enter a name of My Graph and click Apply.

Step 4
Review the overlay information and click Okay, got it.

Step 5
In the navigation pane, expand the entries to find device XRv9K-1, and highlight the device.

Step 6
The lower part of the navigation pane displays the available metric types for the selected device. Expand CPU.

Step 7
Drag a CPU entry into the content pane where it says “(Drop item here).”

Step 8
Expand the metric for Memory and drag the entry onto the same graph to compare the two metrics.
Step 9
Choose another XRv9K device and add its CPU and memory to the same graph.

Step 10
Change the Zoom value to 1h.

Step 11
Experiment with the blue timeline. You can slide the start and end points to further zoom the timeline.

Activity Verification
You have completed this task when you attain this result:
You have compared the CPU and Memory metric for two devices on the same performance graph.

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