Grid View

Overview

Available for locations only, see your services in a grid with underlay, overlay and LAN services in their own section. Refer to the Heat Tiles page for information on location tiles.

Display options

Refresh Options

The Status Heat tiles page refreshes every 180 seconds by default, with auto-refresh on.

Alternatively, switching auto refresh off will keep the page in view constant until you select a different position in the network explorer tree.

Use the options panel to group or filter rows.

Options panel

Open the options panel using the button.

When the options panel is open the button changes to bold. If you close this panel, it will be closed when you next log in.

Reset all filters

If any settings have changed from default, the "Filter reset" button is enabled (bold).

These options revert to default when you next log in but tile size remains as previously set.

Locations

View

Tiles and Grid buttons are available if grid view has been enabled on the selected folder in the tree. Otherwise, the buttons are hidden and you see location tiles only.

By default show location tiles - find out more about tiles view.

Optionally view locations in a grid

Display

Group by folder

All locations below the folder selected in the tree are shown unless this option is checked. Multiple locations are shown as a single folder which simplifies the view for large networks. The overall number of issues is shown and can be filtered by stability, load or health. Click a folder row to drill down to subfolders and locations. The state of this checkbox is remembered for the rest of the session but resets to unchecked when you next log in.

Hide empty columns

If a column in the Grid is empty (meaning it contains no watches) then check this option to hide the column. Navigating to another location or folder in the tree may unhide a column if it then contains watches. The state of this checkbox is remembered when you next log in.

Issues

By default, all issue types are shown: stability, load and health. Use these icons to hide or show one or more issue types. These buttons have no effect on green rows.

React to issues: Any or All

Refer to the Any/All section below for details on these options.

Grid options

Use the Grid options drop-down menu to manually hide columns. Use the top checkbox to remove an entire section: Underlay, Overlay, Tunnels, LAN or App Tests. These options are remembered for the rest of the session but reset to the default (all columns showing) when you next log in.

Indeterminate

A line in any top checkbox indicates a mix of checked and unchecked sub-checkboxes

Grid details

Rows

Rows in the grid are locations unless Group by folder is selected - then rows are either folders or locations. Click on a folder row to drill down to subfolders and locations. Click on a location row to open the watch status panel showing all watches in that location.

a green icon indicates no issues with any watches within the location or folder

if watches have issues, the colour of the location pin or folder is set by the state of the Any/All toggle, see section below

if a row has one or more watches in maintenance, an indicator is shown. Hover shows the total number of watches in maintenance and the text "Contains N watch(es) in maintenance."

Columns

Columns in the grid are services which might be available on a typical network and divided as shown below. If Hide empty columns is checked, only columns with watches are shown.

UNDERLAY

Ethernet: dedicated access bearers and any performance tests on the bearers

Broadband: ADSL and SDSL bearers (which do not have a switch subwatch)

Cellular: SNMP bearers with Cellular Clarity enabled or SD-WAN cellular uplinks

OVERLAY

Class: all Classes of Service and any performance tests on the classes

VLAN: VLANs and any performance tests on the VLAN

Perf Agents: Performance agents and any associated performance tests

Uplinks: SD-WAN uplinks and any associated performance tests, see SD-WAN Uplinks in the Grid section below

TUNNELS

Tunnels: SD-WAN tunnels and any associated performance tests, see SD-WAN Tunnels in the Grid section below

LAN

Switch: all switch parent bearers and switch watches

WiFi: all Wireless Access Points

IoT: all cameras and sensors

APP TESTS

App Test: containers with "Show as App Test column" enabled on the Grid tab, container description (if available, otherwise container name) is shown as the column header, see App Tests in the Grid section below

Cells

Cells may be one of 4 colours to indicate if watches of that type exist in the location or folder:

Grey: no watches

Green: watches exist and none have issues

Amber/Red: watches exist and some have issues

If there are watches with issues, the colour of the cell is determined by the Any/All toggle, see section below.

Cells with issues show the type of issues: stability, load, health or some combination of these and the duration of the most recent issue shown as:

Now: for under 1 hour or

h: for hours, from "1h" up to "47h" or

d: for days, from "2d" up to ">30d"

Column headers

The column header shows the number of cells with issues in a column. Hover on the header to see the total cells. This is not available when Group by folder is selected.

Sorting

By default, the grid is sorted in alphanumeric order according to the first column, Folder/Location, and is not case sensitive.

Click on a column header to sort by that column or reverse the order; A vertical arrow indicates which column the grid is sorted on

Cells in a column are sorted by issue duration and then by Folder/Location if all other details match.

Row colours displayed

A count of rows in each state (red/amber/green) is displayed in the panel header at all times and adapts to the Any/All and Group by folder settings. Click on each colour to hide or show those rows in the display.

The "Reset all filters" button returns colour settings to their default

The display resets to show all colours each time you log in.

React to issues: Any or All

Watch-centric (React to issues: Any)

With this default setting, cells and rows in the grid view change colour based on the worst case of any single watch in the category or location. This view enables service provider operations teams to quickly see areas with issues to be resolved but can occasionally result in a sea of red cells and rows for relatively minor issues.

With Any selected on the "React to issues" toggle, cells and rows are:

Grey: For cells only, no watches in this category in this row

Green: No issues

Amber: Some watches are in a transitional (amber) state

Red: Some watches are in a degraded (red) state

Location-centric (React to issues: All)

Highlight provides an alternative view which is based on the location (or folder) as a whole, rather than on any single watch. In this view an amber row indicates a location with degraded connectivity which is still online. This view is beneficial to enterprises and service providers wanting a higher-level overview of the entire network.

With All selected on the "React to issues" toggle, cells and rows are:

Grey: For cells only, no watches in this category in this row

Green: No issues

Amber: Some watches have issues and some are green, or all watches are amber

Red: All watches have issues with at least one red

The setting of Any or All is remembered when you next log in

The count of rows in each state (red/amber/green) adapts to the Any/All setting

SD-WAN Uplinks in the Grid

SD-WAN uplinks and any associated performance tests are shown in the Uplinks column with the following exceptions:

• Cellular - if the uplink has a cellular child watch, or Meraki call the interface 'cellular', it is shown in the Cellular column in the Underlay section

• Site Link Broadband - if the uplink has "site link" enabled AND the bandwidth up and down values differ, it is shown in the Broadband column in the Underlay section

• Site Link Ethernet - if the uplink has "site link" enabled AND the bandwidth up and down values match, it is shown in the Ethernet column in the Underlay section

Find out more about site links.

SD-WAN Tunnels in the Grid

Performance tests are shown in the Grid column with their parent tunnel.

If the selected folder in the tree is a customer folder and contains SD-WAN tunnels, then Highlight expands the single Tunnel column to show all destination locations. The same applies to locations if their parent folder is set to customer visibility.

At a glance, you can quickly see

• if a location has issues with some or all destinations or

• if a hub has issues with some or all its locations

Find out more about SD-WAN tunnel "To" locations.

App Tests in the Grid

If the selected folder in the tree is a customer folder and includes a container with Show as App Test column enabled, then Highlight shows the container as a column in the Grid.

If the selected folder in the tree is an internal folder and includes one or more containers with Show as App Test column enabled, then Highlight shows a single aggregated column called "App Test" in the Grid.

• Only the status of performance tests is included even if the container includes other watch types.

• Performance test are duplicated in the Grid appearing both in the Underlay or Tunnel section and in the App Tests section if included.

Find out more about the Grid tab on a container.