Per-site VPN Throughput report

Per-site VPN Throughput report overview

The Per-site VPN Throughput report shows the throughput for L2 and L3 VPNs on a per-site basis.

The report provides a table with a list of sites and displays the source site, destination site, VPN name, L2/L3 name, average and maximum bit rates, and maximum traffic time.

Use cases

Use the report to visualize traffic distribution between different sites in a distributed VPN.

Prerequisites

The Per-site VPN Throughput report requires the Flow Collector and Flow Collector Controller. Perform the following:

  1. Enable the collection of the IPFIX statistics as per Table 14-37, Per-site VPN Throughput report prerequisites:

    1. Open the NSP Flow Collector web UI; see the NSP System Administrator Guide.

    2. Click on the Aggregation Policy tab.

    3. Click on the Traffic Volume tab.

    4. Enable the IPv4 VPN and IPv6 VPN check boxes.

    5. Click Save Configuration and close the NSP Flow Collector web UI.

  2. Enable the analytics_cflowd_sys_vpn_r aggregate.

Table 14-37: Per-site VPN Throughput report prerequisites

Aggregator name

Statistics class

NE types

Analytics_cflowd_sys_vpn_r

Analytics_cflowd_sys_vpn_r

7250 IXR

7705 SAR

7750 SR

Analytics_cflowd_sys_vpn_r_max_time

Analytics_cflowd_sys_vpn_r

7250 IXR

7705 SAR

7750 SR

Report characteristics

The following table lists the principal report characteristics.

Table 14-38: Per-site VPN Throughput report characteristics

Characteristic

Value

Data type

IPFIX Traffic Volume flow records

Source database

Auxiliary database

Service types supported

All L2 and L3 services

Report inputs

Prompt

Notes

End date

Calendar date or relative date (for example, two days ago) and time

Report Range

Length of time to be reported, in hours or days

Granularity

Aggregation types:

  • None (raw data)

  • Hourly

  • Daily

  • Monthly

Name or name pattern for Source Site

Search using partial names or wildcard (%).

Select individual items or click Select All.

Source Site

Name or name pattern for Remote Site

Remote Site

VPN Type

L2, L3

Name or name pattern for VPN Name

Search using partial names or wildcard (%).

Select individual items or click Select All.

VPN Name

Logo Resource ID

The logo to add to the report. Enter the resource ID for the logo image uploaded to the Images folder, if any. If no logo ID is provided, the logo area will be blank.

Logo Position

Choose Left, Middle or Right. The logo will be placed on the left of the first page of the report for both the left and middle options.

Show report output on one page

Select the check box to enable pagination.

Note: Using the Show report output on one page option when creating reports as drill-downs may impact report rendering time. Nokia recommends disabling the Show report output on one page option when creating reports.

Drill-down support

No

Example

The following figure shows a report example.

Figure 14-45: Per-site VPN Throughput report
Per-site VPN Throughput report