Monitor DNAC Entities

After integrating Cisco DNA Center with Cisco AIOps, you view the DNAC domain on the Observe page. It displays the number of Cisco DNA Center clusters in your network. Click Dnac Cluster to view the Cisco DNA Center clusters, sites, and devices available in your network.

Relationships Panel

The Relationships panel displays the relationship between the various Cisco DNA entities –DNA Center clusters, sites, and devices. By default, you view the total number of DNA Center clusters, sites, and the devices in your network. Click each entity to view its details.

From the list, click a DNAC Cluster Name or Site ID to view the following cluster-level or site-level details:

Overall Tab 

The Overall tab displays the following details about the selected DNA Center cluster or the selected site:

• Device Family: The bars represent the total number of devices available in the selected cluster or the selected site. A network consists of one or more devices, including routers, switches, wireless controllers, and access points (AP).

• Device Family by Role: The bars represents the total number of devices by their roles.

• Site Analytics: The metrics provides visibility to troubleshoot your network and allows you to drill down to the most problematic site, building, and floor or AP:
  • Roaming Duration: Displays the percentage of wireless clients that successfully roam from one AP to another AP within the configured threshold time. If a wireless client fails to roam successfully, it is not counted in this metric. If a wireless client successfully roams, but takes longer than the configured threshold for roaming duration, it is counted as a failure. For example, out of the 50 clients who roamed successfully, 30 clients took less than 10 seconds, and 20 clients took more than 10 seconds. The Roaming Duration KPI value is 60%.
  • Onboarding Attempts: Displays the percentage of wireless clients that successfully onboard to an AP in the given site. An SLA is met when a wireless client successfully joins the network, and an SLA is a failure when a wireless client doesn't successfully join the network. For example, 100 clients attempt to onboard to the network. 50 clients onboard successfully, and 50 fail to onboard. The Onboarding Attempts KPI value is 50%.
  • Onboarding Duration: Displays the percentage of successfully onboarded wireless clients that onboard to an AP within the configured threshold time. If a wireless client fails to onboard, it is not counted in the metric. If a wireless client successfully onboards, but takes longer than the configured SLA duration, it is counted as a failure. For example, out of the 50 clients who onboarded successfully, 30 clients took less than 10 seconds, and 20 clients took more than 10 seconds. So, the Onboarding Duration KPI value is 60%.
  • Connection Speed: Displays the percentage of time that wireless clients have data traffic with over-the-air data rates that are higher than the configured threshold rate. For example, among the data rates sampled by the controller for the 50 successfully onboarded clients, 200 samples were higher than the threshold of 11 Mbps and 50 samples were lower. The Connection Speed KPI value is 80%.
  • Roaming Attempts: Displays the percentage of wireless clients that successfully roam from one AP to another AP in the given site. An SLA is met when a wireless client successfully roams and joins the network via another AP, and is considered a failure when the wireless client doesn't successfully join the network. For example, 100 clients attempted to roam in a given duration. 50 clients roamed successfully, and 50 failed to roam. The Roaming Attempts KPI value is 50%.
  • Coverage: Displays the percentage of time that wireless clients have data traffic with RSSI values that are higher than the configured threshold value. For example, among the RSSI values of the 50 successfully onboarded clients sampled by the controller, 200 samples were higher than the threshold of -72 dBm and 50 samples were lower. The Coverage KPI value is 80%.
  • Network Services: Displays the successful and failed transactions of the AAA servers, DNS servers, and DHCP servers reported by wireless controllers in your network.
• Issues: Lists the top 10 issues that must be addressed. The issues are sorted by the time stamp of their occurrence.
• Device ID: Lists all devices in your network. A network consists of one or more devices, including routers, switches, wireless controllers, and access points. Click a Device ID to view the metrics related to its health and performance:
  • Device Overall Health
  • Device Memory Score
  • Device CPU Score
  • Device Power Consumed
  • Device Energy Efficient (kWh)
  • Device PSU Power Ratio (%)
  • Device Interface Data Rate
  • Device Power to Traffic Ratio
  • Device CO2 Emission

Network Tab 

The Network tab provides a global view of your network and helps you to identify if any potential issues that must be addressed. A network consists of one or more devices, including routers, switches, wireless controllers, and access points.

You can view the following details:

• The percentage of healthy devices in your overall network or the selected site. See Understand Network Health Score and KPI Metrics.
• The total number of network devices and the count of devices that have Good Health, Fair Health, Poor Health, and No Health Data.
• The total access points (APs) that are connected to the network and are not connected to the network. Hover your cursor over a color on the pie chart to view the access points.
• The list of all devices in the network. Click Device Name to view the metrics related to its health and performance:
  • Device Overall Health
  • Device Memory Score
  • Device CPU Score
  • Device Power Consumed
  • Device Energy Efficient (kWh)
  • Device PSU Power Ratio (%)
  • Device Interface Data Rate
  • Device Power to Traffic Ratio
  • Device CO2 Emission

Client Tab 

The Client Tab displays the health of all wired and wireless clients and and helps you to identify if any potential issues that must be addressed. A client is an end device such as a computer or a phone that is connected to a network device such as an access point or a switch.

You can view the following details:

• The Client Health chart displays the trend of the wired and wireless clients' health over a period of time.
• The Client Health Wireless chart displays the percentage of wireless clients that have onboarded successfully and have good connectivity.
• The Client Health Wired chart displays the percentage of wired clients that have onboarded successfully and have good connectivity.
• List of all the client devices. Click an Identifier to view the metrics related to its health and performance:
  • Device Overall Health
  • Device Memory Score
  • Device CPU Score
  • Device Power Consumed
  • Device Energy Efficient (kWh)
  • Device PSU Power Ratio (%)
  • Device Interface Data Rate
  • Device Power to Traffic Ratio
  • Device CO2 Emission

Applications Tab 

The Applications tab provides insight into the performance of business applications in your overall network or selected site. You can view the following details:

• SUMMARY: Displays the total number of business-relevant applications, data usage, and average throughput in your overall network or selected site.
  • Data Usage: The number of bytes transferred by the client for this application.
  • Average Throughput: The rate of the application traffic (in Mbps) flowing between the client and the server.
• NETFLOW: Displays the total number of exporters.
• THOUSANDEYES TEST: Displays the total number of ThousandEyes enterprise agents, tests, and active alerts running on your supported Cisco Catalyst 9300 or 9400 Series switch.
• Business Relevant Application Health: Displays a health score for business-relevant applications. The health score is the percentage of healthy (good) business-relevant applications in your overall network, or selected site.
• Application Traffic Distribution: Displays the number of applications that have inbound and outbound traffic for the selected period.

Issues Tab 

The Issues tab displays the list of all the open issues in your devices (routers, switches, wireless controllers, access points) that require immediate attention. The issues are sorted by the timestamp of their occurrence.

Events Tab 

The Events tab provides a contextual view of events for devices (routers, switches, wireless controllers, APs) and endpoints (wired and wireless).