About the dashboard
After you connect to the SCC Management Console, the Dashboard appears. The Dashboard provides a general overview regarding the status of your SCC, including site status, the status of managed appliances, optimization savings, and top applications.
• Welcome Widget (not shown)—Click Learn More to view migration best practices, including how to set up sites, applications, path selection, QoS, and pushing configurations. Click the X to hide the widget.
• Local System Information—Displays the health status of managed appliances.
• Site Status—Displays the health status of sites by site type: for example, branch office or data center and its location. In addition it lists the path selection status for each site. For detailed information about sites and site types, see
Managing Interceptor Clusters. • Optimization Savings Over Last Month—Summarizes the average bandwidth reduction, average capacity increase, and total amount of data saved for the month. Mouse over the graph to view statistics for a specific time. You can also see WAN and LAN peak throughput (total optimized data transmitted for all applications) in the last month.
• Top Applications—Top Applications on the Dashboard provide you with a summary of bandwidth reduction across applications for optimized, pass-through, and combined (optimized and pass through) traffic for the top ten applications in the network. Application statistics help you make optimization policy decisions and allocate resources appropriately. Top Applications provides historical data for up to one week for the entire network. For detailed information about enabling applications for statistics collection, see
Enabling statistics collection for applications. Byte counts refer to Layer 3 packet size (that is, the IP header plus the payload) without the potential tunnel overhead or higher layer retransmissions. Mouse over the data for each application to view the WAN throughput. Click the application name to go to the Applications Details page where you can view throughput data. The units displayed are:
– Bits/second and averages per hour for optimized, pass-through, and combined traffic
– Optimized and pass-through traffic is WAN in and WAN out traffic.
– Combined traffic is optimized traffic plus the pass-through traffic
– 1 K is equal to 1000 bits, not 1024 bits
• Critical Appliances—Provides a table of configured appliances that are currently in a Critical state. The table lists the appliance name, Riverbed appliance type (for example, SteelHead), the hardware model, software version, site, and group. To view appliance details, click View Appliance. To connect to the appliance, click Console.