After you set up and verify the Utilization assessment, you are ready to activate monitoring for devices and links. For more information, see Section 5.1, Setting Up the Utilization Assessment and Section 5.3, Verifying the Utilization Assessment.
To activate the Utilization assessment:
Expand the Assess Utilization view tab and click the Monitor tab.
Click Activate Assessment. Depending on the schedule you entered and validated, activation either starts utilization monitoring immediately or notifies the Scheduler service to wait until the time you selected to start the monitoring process. The Start time and End time fields indicate the scheduled times that monitoring will begin and end.
The Status field indicates whether monitoring is ready to proceed, is proceeding normally, or is complete.
NOTE:You can run utilization monitoring and an assessment of VoIP Quality at the same time. However, you must complete all configuration of each assessment type before you start either one. When either assessment is active, no configuration options are available. For more information, see Section 7.0, Task 5: Assessing VoIP Quality.
If any errors occur during utilization monitoring, the View Error Log button is enabled. Click it to view information about the errors and get help for avoiding them in the future.
Once utilization monitoring begins, rotating green arrows indicate “running,” and the progress bar indicates the percentage of the monitoring schedule that has been completed. Meanwhile, preliminary monitoring statistics are shown in the pie charts and in the Monitored Devices and Links table. Click each of the three tabs on the table to view information about Routers, Switches, and Links.
NOTE:Devices manufactured by Alcatel, Cisco Systems, Extreme Networks, and Nortel Networks can be monitored for utilization statistics. The table will show “Not Supported” for any routers and switches that cannot be monitored.
For more information, see Section 8.6, Reviewing Utilization Assessment Factors.
The pie charts display preliminary measurement summaries for each device type (that is, routers, switches, and links). The measurements are placed into the Good, Acceptable, Poor, and Unavailable categories configured in the Utilization result ranges.
You can toggle the display for the pie charts and table:
Click View summary of most recent queries to show utilization statistics for the most recent network queries only.
Click View summary of all queries to show utilization statistics for all network queries performed so far during monitoring.