Viewing Application Information
The
page provides the application wise data usage:Table 1: Application Information
Parameter |
Description |
---|---|
Name |
Shows the name of the application category. See Analyzing Application Usage for the complete list of application categories. |
Total Usage |
Shows the total usage for a given application category, in bytes. |
Total Usage % |
Shows the total usage for a given application category, in percentage (%). |
Applications Visibility and Control
This page allows you to configure application visibility and control settings for the network. To configure application visibility and control settings on the network, follow these steps:
- Click
) tile on the Instant On home page .Click the settings (
) icon on the page header and select . The page is displayed.
( - Select one of the available options:
- —Provides a detailed view of date usage by different applications and websites accessed by clients in the network. Applications chart and Applications list are displayed only when this option is selected. This option is enabled by default.
- —Provides only an overview of uploaded and downloaded data of all the networks for the last 24 hours in the Applications page. Choose this option for better network performance. Selecting this option hides the Applications tab in the web application.
Application visibility and control setting configured in this page affects how the application wise data usage information of the client is displayed in the following pages:
- page.
- page.
- tab in the page.
Filtering Application Information in the Web Application
To filter the information that is displayed on the Instant On web application, follow these steps:
page of the- Click Instant On home page. The page opens. on the
- Click the tool (
) button at the top-right corner of the list to open the parameter drop-down list.
- Select the parameters that you want to display or hide from the
- Parameters with an orange check mark are displayed on the page.
- Parameters without a check mark are not displayed on the page.
page.
To restore the default settings, follow these steps:
- Click Instant On home page. The page opens. on the
- Click the tool (
) button at the top-right corner of the list to open the parameter drop-down list.
- Select Instant On to the default settings. to restore
Analyzing Application Usage Data by Category
After you have filtered out the
data based on different application categories, you can view the data usage on each employee or guest network at the site.To view the application data based on its category, click the Applications () tile on the Instant On home page. The tab displays the web categories and their data on the network. Click the (
) arrow beside the of any of the web categories to view the usage data.
The following data is displayed for each category:
- —Displays the data for the top five application categories (by usage).
- —Displays the list of employee and guest networks active for the last 24 hours.
- —Denotes if the network is an employee or a guest network
- —Includes the color codes to different each network. The color codes in the legend are used to display the donut chart.
- —Allows you to block the traffic from the selected application category.
- —Denotes the data transferred on the network specific to the selected web category, during the last 24 hours.
- —Displays the data usage of top five clients specific to the selected web category.
Sorting Application Information in the Web Application
Application data can be sorted in the Instant On web application to help you locate the information you need efficiently. For example, application data can be sorted in alphabetical order based on the application category name. Click one of the parameters at the top of the list to sort the information based on your needs.
Applications Chart
Data for the top five application categories (by usage) is displayed in a donut chart. If more than five application categories have been accessed throughout the day, the fifth section of the
chart is represented as . Any applications that do not fall under the top four application categories are grouped into .Applications List
Data for every application category is displayed in a list, which is organized in descending order by usage.