Sessions Inventory

What is a Session? Sessions (or monitored objects) are the building blocks/lowest level of our data model. Our sensors and third-parties report session data at this raw level, and Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance (formerly Skylight perfo...

Session Details Drilling down from the session inventory, dashboard TopN list or analysis into a specific session detail page will present you with an overview screen consisting of the following components: Session title Session type Sessi...

Viewing Session based Alerts To get to any level of performance details on a per session object basis we can go into the inventory and select the 'session object of interest'. In the session analysis screen Alerts can be viewed in addition to ot...

While the overview provides an at-a-glance view of session performance, it is working off of the default view for that specific session type. The Performance tab can be used to: View the line charts in a bigger screen space View a summ...

Topology information can be added to a session to support correlation across all of the other reporting sessions to more expediently locate the source of performance degradations. It's purposely kept at an abstract level to support a provisioning mo...

Overview Use the Traceroute tab to view and compare trace route information from agents and runs that have been set up in your system. Traceroute Tab Layout This image describes the sections of the Traceroute tab: Trace Run ...

See something interesting or need to do some manipulation of the data in an external tool? The Sesson View offers the ability to export data from both the Overview and Performance tabs - look for it here: Exporting timeseries data Thi...

About TCP Throughput Tests In TCP throughput tests, a lot of traffic is pushed or retrieved over a specific path to measure network performance. Since TCP is a two-way protocol, you receive data from the destination to confirm that transmission wa...

About Session Schedules Set a schedule to run single or repeating tests for sessions that have a Path trace , Transfer , or Throughput session type. You can set and manage schedules by using the Schedule drop-down list in the session configu...