Virtual Traffic Manager Analytics

Ivanti Neurons for Virtual Traffic Manager (vTM) provides visibility of network activity and service usage across your enterprise through network activity analytics and performance graphs.

After you log in to the Tenant Admin portal, vTM displays the Gateways Overview page. Through the vTM menu, use the Insights menu icon to monitor the vTM Gateways and Clusters, and analyze the gateways performance graphs.

The Ivanti Virtual Traffic Manager maintains a series of long-lived TCP connections to the endpoint, with each connection managed by an internal data-plane process. The data-plane processes handle incoming transactions with the Traffic Manager and stream corresponding metadata records in JSON format, separated by newline characters, to the endpoint.

Use the Transaction Metadata settings at vTM gateway, to configure how the Traffic Manager exports transaction metadata records to the defined endpoint.

Use the Log Files section at vTM gateway, to configure how the Traffic Manager exports log data to the defined endpoint.

The vTM Gateways overview page shows real-time analytics data for your network infrastructure, providing a one-page dashboard of activity across your organization.

To access the Gateways Overview page:

The primary components of the Gateways Overview page are the following:

For a detailed drill-down analysis of each of these primary charts and multiple secondary charts, with filters and time duration, see the section Virtual Traffic Manager Analytics.

The Summary Ribbon at the top of the page shows data totals for each category:

The traffic details page shows charts of various aspects of the traffic. It allows the user to drill-down into the source of the issue.

To view the Traffic Details page, select Insights > Explore.

vTM uses the top part of the Explorer View page to show:

Set a specific From and To to denote the start and end of your date/time range.

To return to the current page without making any changes, select Cancel.

To apply your changes, select Apply. The selected time period is displayed in the filter bar and data across all Insights pages is updated accordingly.

The Sankey chart provides an alternate visualization of your services, showing directed flow between related objects based on the option you choose from the drop-down list - Throughput, Requests per second, and Connections per second. The width of each stream in the flow - Cluster > VTM > Virtual Server > Pool > Node - is proportional to the utilization of the object the flow passes through, allowing an administrator to view significant usage and relationships across your user base and infrastructure.

By hovering your pointer over a flow of interest, vTM displays a tooltip confirming the scale of the activity between the two objects connected by the flow.

The Table view shows all the metrics in a table form. Grouped by cluster, the Table view shows all the three metrics - Average connection duration, Average request duration and Request per second, and Throughput - for each of the vTM instances.

The Comparative View chart allows comparative analytics between two metrics. Multiple metrics can be displayed on this chart (that is, the user shall be able to select requests per second or throughput and plot them side by side).

The Traffic Details page includes bar charts to provide a breakdown of Top 5 URLs, Top 5 Pools, Top 5 Traffic IPs, and HTTP responses.

Hover your pointer over a particular bar to view a tooltip showing the label and total.

The Logs page allows you to watch the Event, Authentication and System logs in real-time as records are appended to them. These events are reported to the Controller by your vTM Gateways.

To view the Logs page:

To apply your changes, click Apply. The selected time period is displayed in the filter bar and data on the page updates accordingly. To return to the current page without making any changes, select Cancel.