Interfaces

What Is Interfaces?

Interfaces lists the network interfaces defined on TR7 in the Left Monitor Panel together with their statuses and the value of a selected network metric. The physical interfaces and the interfaces added later such as VLAN, Bond and LACP are in the same list. Every row is an interface; the colored strip on the left of the row shows the status of the interface and the columns on the right show the value of the selected metric. When a row is clicked, the Interfaces - Dashboard screen of that interface opens on the main screen.

By default the category shows the total data of the Network Bandwidth metric over the last one day in the RX Traffic and TX Traffic columns and refreshes the values every 5 seconds. The list is filtered by name, by interface type, by the route table it is bound to and by status. The selected category, the filters and the view settings are stored per user; when the session is opened again, the panel comes in the same state.

Interfaces

Scope

All the physical and added network interfaces are listed

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Statuses

The status strip counts the network statuses

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Filter Tabs

Name, Type, Namespace, Status

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Refresh

The default refresh interval; 10s, 30s and 60s are also selected

Accessing the Screen

1. Left Monitor Panel is opened.
2. Interfaces is selected from the category tabs at the top left.
3. The network interfaces defined on TR7 are listed.
4. The interface to be monitored is clicked; the screen opens with the Interfaces - Dashboard screen of the interface.

If Interfaces is not seen in the category list, the user does not have the network authorization or the category has been removed with the Edit Tabs arrangement in the category list; a removed category is added again from the same arrangement.

The Interfaces Screen

The Interfaces Screen

At the top part of the screen there are the category selector and the toolbar, below them the status strip, the search box and the interface table, and at the very bottom the metric information row and the total strip. By default the table opens with the following columns:

Column	Description
The status strip	The colored strip on the left of the row shows the status of the interface; the colors are the same as the colors in the status strip. When it is hovered over, the status name is displayed.
Interfaces	The name of the interface. Long names are shortened; when they are hovered over, the full name is displayed.
RX Traffic	The amount of data the interface receives (Network Bandwidth, Total data).
TX Traffic	The amount of data the interface sends (Network Bandwidth, Total data).

The RX Traffic and TX Traffic columns belong to the default Primary Metric value; when another metric is selected in the View Settings window, the columns of that metric come in place of these columns. When a metric cell is hovered over, the name of the interface, the metric, the period and the value are displayed. When the value changes, an arrow of two seconds appears in the metric cell, and when the status changes, in the name cell.

By default the table is sorted by name from A to Z. The sorting is changed by clicking a column header: the first click on a column that is not sorted sorts the name and status strip columns from the smallest to the largest and the metric columns from the largest to the smallest; a second click on the same column reverses the order and a third click removes the sorting. In the table one navigates between the rows with the ↑ and ↓ keys; the selected row opens half a second later and the Enter key opens the row immediately. The ← and → keys pass to the previous or the next category.

When a row is clicked, the Interfaces - Dashboard screen of the interface opens on the main screen; the screen comes with the Display Period value in the panel.

The Category Selector

Which object group the panel will list is selected. When the label or the arrow next to it is clicked, the category list opens; the default order is Load Balancer vServices, WAF-Protected vServices, AGS-Enabled vServices, Bot/DDoS Protected vServices, Backend Services, Backend Service Groups, GTM, Interfaces and Route Tables & L4 DDoS. The categories for which the user has no authorization are not displayed in the list.

With the Edit Tabs button in the list, the categories are reordered by dragging, are added with Add Tab and are edited or deleted with the buttons on the right of the row. The changes are saved with the check mark; Discard changes undoes the changes made and Reset to Defaults returns to the default category list.

Interfaces List

By clicking the Interfaces list button, the Interfaces List screen opens on the main screen.

Search

The Search button shows or hides the search box above the table. The search is made only in the name of the interface and the table is filtered as it is typed. The cross mark in the box clears the search; the Esc key or clicking the button again hides the box and clears the search. Whether the box is open or closed is stored per user; by default it is open.

Filter

By clicking the Filter button, the Filter window opens. While a filter is active, a dot appears on the button and the tooltip of the button writes how many interfaces are shown in the form Showing X of Y.

View Settings

By clicking the Settings button, the View Settings window opens.

Collapse

The Collapse button collapses the panel. The collapsed panel turns into a narrow icon strip: every category is shown with an icon and the small status dots below it. When the icon is hovered over, the category name and the status distribution are displayed; when the icon is clicked, the panel expands again with that category. The width of the panel is changed by dragging its right edge and is stored per user.

The Metric Information Row

It shows the selected metric of the table, its calculation type and its period; by default it writes Network Bandwidth — Total data, last 1 day(s). By clicking the row, the View Settings window opens. While the data is loading, the settings icon in the row turns; the ring around the icon shows the time remaining until the next refresh.

The total strip below it gives the total of the rows that are visible in the table at that moment (with the filter and the search applied) separately for every metric column: in the default metric, Σ RX Traffic and Σ TX Traffic. In the metrics that cannot be added up, such as a percentage or a ratio, the average (x̄) is shown instead of the total.

The Status Strip

The strip below the toolbar shows the number of the interfaces in the list by status; there is a box for every status that has an interface at that moment. The boxes are counted according to the other filters; the search and the Status filter do not change the numbers, so all the statuses continue to be seen on the strip.

Status	Color	Meaning
Up	Green	The interface is active and the physical connection is present.
No link	Yellow	The interface is up but there is no physical connection; the cable is unplugged or the other side is off.
Down	Gray	The interface has been shut down administratively.
Absent in system	Red	The interface is not present in the system.
Host is down	Gray	The device has no connection with the network service; the status cannot be read.

For the details of the statuses see Interfaces List › Interface and IP Statuses.

When a box is clicked, that status is added to the Status filter in the Filter window and the table shows only the interfaces in that status; when it is clicked again, the status is removed from the filter. More than one box can be selected and the selected boxes are displayed highlighted. The strip is hidden with the Show status bar option in the View Settings window.

The Filter Window

In the window that opens by clicking the Filter button, the interfaces in the table are filtered according to the values in the tabs.

The Filter Window

In the header of every tab the number of values in that tab is written, and next to every value the number of interfaces that have that value. When no value is selected in a tab, that tab does not filter the list. When more than one value is selected in a tab, the interfaces that match any one of them are listed, and when a selection is made in different tabs, the interfaces that match the condition of all the tabs are listed.

Tabs

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Name Default: All

The names of the interfaces are listed; the selected interfaces are shown in the table.

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Type Default: All

It is filtered by interface type; the interface types in the list are listed. The possible values are ETH, VLAN, VXLAN, V-ETH, V-ETH(Peer), Bond, LACP and Bridge.

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Namespace Default: All

It is filtered by the route table the interface is bound to; the route tables that have at least one interface are listed.

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Status Default: All

It is filtered by interface status; the statuses in the list are listed as labels with the colors in the status strip. Clicking a box in the status strip also changes the selection in this tab.

Window Controls

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Select All

The Select all button selects all the values displayed in the tab; while all the values are selected, the button becomes Deselect all and removes the selection.

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Search

In the Name tab the values are filtered according to the text typed in the search box; Select all is applied only to the filtered values. In the other tabs there is no search box.

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Save

By clicking the Save button, the selected filters are applied and stored per user. If the window is closed without the Save button being clicked, the selections made are not applied.

The View Settings Window

In the window that opens by clicking the Settings button or the metric information row, which metric the table will show, its sorting and its refresh period are set.

The View Settings Window

The settings are stored per category and per user; a setting made for Interfaces does not affect the other categories.

Metrics

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View Type Default: Basic

The view of the list is selected:

• Basic: the interfaces are listed as a table with the columns of the selected metric.
• Advanced: every interface is shown as a card; on the card there are at most five additional metrics together with the Primary Metric. In this view the Additional Metrics field in which the additional metrics are selected is added to the window.

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Primary Metric Default: Network Bandwidth, Total data

The metric to be shown in the table and the calculation type are selected. In the first box the network metrics of the interfaces are listed; these metrics are the panels on the Interfaces - Dashboard screen of the interface. The Static group contains the information that does not depend on time:

• Type: the type of the interface.
• IPs: the first IP address of the interface; if there is more than one address, the number of the remaining addresses is added as +N.
• MTU: the MTU value of the interface.
• Route table: the route table the interface is bound to.

In the second box it is selected how the selected metric will be calculated. For Network Bandwidth the options are Last data/s, Avg. data/s, Max. data/s and Total data. Every data source of the metric becomes a separate column in the table; for Network Bandwidth, RX Traffic and TX Traffic.

Sorting & Appearance

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Sort By Default: Name

The sorting criterion of the table is selected: Default Order, Name, Status or one of the columns of the selected metric.

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Ascending Default: Checked

While it is checked, the sorting is made from the smallest to the largest (from A to Z), and while it is not checked, from the largest to the smallest.

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Group by Status Default: Not checked

When it is selected, the interfaces are grouped by their statuses; the groups are arranged in the order Host is down, Absent in system, Down, No link and Up. At the beginning of every group the status name and the number of interfaces are written; by clicking the group header, the group is opened or closed.

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Show status bar Default: Checked

While it is not checked, the status strip is hidden.

Data Refresh

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Display Period Default: Last 1 day(s)

The period over which the metric value will be calculated is selected. The ready options are 1 minute, 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 6 hours, 12 hours, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 3 months and 1 year; the period is also entered manually. The field is not displayed when no time-dependent metric is selected in the saved setting and in the window (e.g. when a metric is selected only from the Static group). The Dashboard that opens when a row is clicked comes with this period.

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Refresh Interval Default: 5s

The refresh interval of the values in the table is selected: 5s, 10s, 30s, 60s.

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Accept

By clicking the Accept button, the settings are saved and the table is refreshed with the new settings.