Tunnel performance management

User can select multiple tunnels and enable/disable or view Performance Management. Values for the parameters PM State, PM Granularity, and PM Enabling Time gets updated on Manage Tunnels page on enabling the PM for selected tunnel(s).

Enable PM

NOTE: Enabling and viewing Performance Management options is applicable to tunnels in active state only.

Perform the following steps to enable Performance Management on the selected tunnel(s):

Click Configuration > Layer 2 > Tunnels and click on Complete Tunnels/Incomplete Tunnels. The Manage Tunnels/Manage Incomplete Tunnel(s) page is displayed.
Select the desired tunnel(s), right-click and select Performance Management > Enable PM. Enable PM window is displayed.
Select the check box against the desired interval and click Apply. PM Successfully Enabled message is displayed.
Click OK. Right-click a tunnel on which the PM is enabled and go to Performance Management. Menu options displayed (when both intervals are chosen) is shown in the following figure:

The performance management options for the tunnel are as follows:

Disable PM

Perform the following steps to disable Performance Management on the PM enabled tunnel(s):

Click Configuration > Layer 2 > Tunnels and click on Complete Tunnels/Incomplete Tunnels. The Manage Tunnels/Manage Incomplete Tunnel(s) page is displayed.
Select the desired PM enabled tunnel(s), right-click and select Performance Management > Disable PM. Disable PM window is displayed.
Click Apply to disable PM on the selected tunnel(s). PM Successfully Disabled message is displayed.
Click OK.

Generate 24Hr PM History Report

Perform the following steps to generate 24Hr PM History Report:

Click Configuration > Layer 2 > Tunnels and click on Complete Tunnels/Incomplete Tunnels. The Manage Tunnels/Manage Incomplete Tunnel(s) page is displayed.
Select a PM enabled tunnel, right-click and select Performance Management > Generate 24Hr PM History Report. View 24 hour PM history report window is displayed.
Click calendar button and select the Start date and the End date.
Select the radio button against the format (PDF/RTF/XLS/HTML) desired for generating the report.
Click Apply. The PM History report is generated.

View current 15Min/1Hr/24Hr PM

Perform the following steps to generate the current 15Min/1Hr/24Hr PM report:

Click Configuration > Layer 2 > Tunnels and click on Complete Tunnels/Incomplete Tunnels. The Manage Tunnels/Manage Incomplete Tunnel(s) page is displayed.
Select a PM enabled tunnel, right-click and select Performance Management > View current 15Min/1Hr/24Hr PM. The following window is displayed:
Select/unselect the check box against the PM Parameters desired for report generation.
Click Apply. Current 15min/1h/24h Performance Monitoring report is displayed in a new browser window.
To save all tables in the report in PDF format, click (Export All tables To PDF) icon; or

To save individual tables in the report, select the desired format (PDF, CSV, XML and HTML) from the Export Option drop down menu against that table.

View previous 15Min/1Hr/24Hr PM

Perform the following steps to generate the previous 15Min/1Hr/24Hr PM report:

Click Configuration > Layer 2 > Tunnels and click on Complete Tunnels/Incomplete Tunnels. The Manage Tunnels/Manage Incomplete Tunnel(s) page is displayed.
Select a PM enabled tunnel, right-click and select Performance Management > View previous 15Min/1Hr/24Hr PM. The following screen is displayed:
Select/unselect the check box against the PM parameters desired for report generation.
Click Apply. Previous 15min/1h/24h Performance Monitoring report is displayed in a new browser window.
To save all tables in the report in PDF format, click (Export All tables To PDF) icon; or

To save individual tables in the report, select the desired format (PDF, CSV, XML and HTML) from the Export Option drop down menu against that table.

To view the data of a table for previous 15Mins interval in form of graph, click (View Graph of PM Parameters). Graph will be displayed with Throughput (Mbps) plotted against the time.

Performance Management parameters

Parameter	Description

Current 15Min/1Hr/24Hr and Previous 15Min//1Hr/24Hr PM data
Rx Perf Packets	Number of Ethernet packets received.
Rx Errored Packets	Number of errored Ethernet packets received.
Rx Perf Octets	Number of Ethernet bytes received.
Rx Perf Discards	Number of received Ethernet packets discarded.
Tx Perf Packets	Number of Ethernet packets transferred.
Tx Errored Packets	Number of errored Ethernet packets transferred.
Tx Perf Octets	Number of Ethernet bytes transferred.
Tx Perf Discards	Number of transferred Ethernet packets discarded.
Throughput(Mbps)	Select to display the data rate in Mbps.
Deselect/Select All	Allows you to click and de-select/select all PM parameters.

NOTE: The steps to View current 15Min/1Hr/24Hr PM and Previous 15Min/1Hr/24Hr PM are same.

View Live Throughput and Utilization Chart

Perform the following steps to view live throughput and utilization of the selected tunnel:

NOTE: Live Throughput Chart can be viewed only if 24 Hour PM is enabled on the tunnel.

Click Configuration > Layer 2 > Tunnels and click on Complete Tunnels/Incomplete Tunnels. The Manage Tunnels/Manage Incomplete Tunnel(s) page is displayed.
Select a PM enabled tunnel, right-click and select Performance Management > View Live Throughput and Utilization Chart. Live Throughput and Utilization window is displayed.
Two graphs indicates two end points of a tunnel. X-axis represents time and Y-axis throughput. Data is plotted on per minute basis with Throughput (Mb/s) in orange color and Utilization (%) in blue color.
The maximum value for Y-axis can be set by entering the value for Enter a new max for y-axis and click Update button. The Y-axis will be set for new maximum value.