This article explains how to generate a Cato Network Analytics report that highlights data related to network usage for sites and SDP users in your account.
Overview
Cato provides a Predefined Report template that summarizes WAN and Internet network usage for sites and SDP users. In addition, it includes the SLA metrics for site traffic: packet loss, discarded packets, jitter, and latency.
Create the template for a recurring or one-time report with the sites and SDP users that are included in the report over the defined time range. By default, the Predefined Report template for the Network Analytics report shows traffic and data for all sites and SDP users for the past week.
For more about working with reports, see Cato Reports.
Creating a Recurring Network Analytics Report
Create a new recurring report by defining the Filters for the items included in the report, as well as the Schedule which defines how often the report is generated - daily, weekly, or monthly. Generated reports are stored in the Cato Cloud, and they can be automatically emailed or downloaded. The Schedule also defines the time range that is covered by each report.
You can select the Mailing List of email addresses for the recipients, which can include Cato Management Application admins and external users.
For more information about Mailing Lists, see Working with Mailing Lists.
To create a recurring Network Analytics report:
From the navigation pane, select Home > Reports.
From the Catalog tab, select the template you want to use to generate the report.
Click Generate > Create Schedule.
Enter a Report Name.
(Optional) In Filters, select specific sites or users for the Predefined Report.
By default, the Predefined Report includes all sites and users.
To include multiple sites or users in the report, use the IN operator.
Define when the report will be generated and sent:
Select the Frequency that the report is automatically sent: Daily, Weekly, or Monthly.
For Weekly and Monthly Scheduled reports, in Every select the day that the report is sent.
In Send to Mailing List, select the Mailing List that receives the report.
You can click New to create a new mailing list.
Click Save Schedule. The report is added to the Saved Reports tab.
Generating a Recurring Report On Demand
Recurring reports are automatically generated based on their schedule settings. For example, a weekly report configured for Monday, is generated every Monday. You can also choose to manually generate a recurring report on demand, in which case the generated report uses the defined time range based on the current day. If an admin manually generates a weekly report on a Tuesday, the time range for the report is the previous 7 days starting from that Tuesday, regardless of the starting day of the recurring report. For more information about the time range of recurring reports, see Cato Reports.
To generate a recurring report on demand:
From the navigation pane, select Home > Reports.
From the Saved Reports tab, find the recurring report and click Generate Now.
From the Generated PDFs tab, find the report and click Download.
Creating a One-Time Network Analytics Report
You can create a one-time report based on the Network Analytics template. You define the Filters for the items included in the report.
To create a One-Time report:
From the navigation pane, select Home > Reports.
From the Catalog tab, select the template you want to use to generate the report.
Select Generate > Generate Now.
Enter a Report Name.
In Filters, define the Timeframe and Timezone of the report.
Click Generate, the report is generated and you download it from the Generated PDFs tab.
Understanding the Network Analytics Report
For sections in the report that show the top sites, charts that show over time show the top three sites, other charts show the top ten sites.
Latency measures round trip time inside the tunnel between the site and the PoP in the Cato Cloud
Jitter is the difference in time delay in milliseconds (ms) between data packets
Packets discarded is the number of packets discarded by the QoS engine due to congestion
Packets lost is the number or percentage of dropped packets inside the tunnel between the site and the PoP in the Cato Cloud
These are the sections in the Network Analytics report:
Traffic Summary
Sites Total Traffic: Chart showing volume and percentage of upstream and downstream traffic for all sites
Sites Total Traffic Over Time: Timeline that shows the total upstream and downstream traffic for all sites over the time range
SDP Users Total Traffic: Chart showing volume and percentage of upstream and downstream traffic for all SDP users
SDP Users Total Traffic Over Time: Timeline that shows the total upstream and downstream traffic for all SDP users over the time range
Top Sites by Traffic Consumption
Top Sites by Total Traffic: Top sites according to total upstream and downstream traffic
Top Sites Traffic Over Time: Timeline that shows the upstream and downstream traffic for the top three sites over the time range
SLA Metrics
Top Sites by Average Latency: Average latency (in ms) for the top sites over the time range
Top Sites by Max Latency: Maximum latency for the top sites over the time range
Top Sites by Average Jitter Downstream: Average downstream jitter for the top sites over the time range
Top Sites by Average Jitter Upstream: Average upstream jitter for the top sites over the time range
Total Sites Packet Loss
Lost Packets Downstream: Chart showing downstream packet loss (number of lost packets) for all sites over the time range
Lost Packets Upstream: Chart showing upstream packet loss (number of lost packets) for all sites over the time range
Lost Packets Downstream %: Chart showing downstream packet loss (percentage) for all sites over the time range
Lost Packets Upstream %: Chart showing upstream packet loss (percentage) for all sites over the time range
Total Sites Packet Discard
Packets Discarded Downstream: Chart showing downstream discarded packets by the QoS engine (number of discarded packets) for all sites over the time range
Packets Discarded Upstream: Chart showing upstream discarded packets by the QoS engine (number of discarded packets) for all sites over the time range
Packets Discarded Downstream %: Chart showing downstream discarded packets by the QoS engine (percentage) for all sites over the time range
Packets Discarded Upstream %: Chart showing upstream discarded packets by the QoS engine (percentage) for all sites over the time range
Top Sites Dropped Traffic
Top Sites Packet Loss Over Time: Timeline that shows the total packet loss (number of lost packets) for upstream and downstream traffic for the top three sites over the time range
Top Sites Packet Discarded Over Time: Timeline that shows the total packets discarded by the QoS engine (number of lost packets) for upstream and downstream traffic for the top three sites over the time range
Site Traffic Details - The table shows the following details for up to 100 top sites according to the total traffic volume, sorted in alphabetical order:
Site Name: Name of the site
Port: Name for the port (defined in the Cato Management Application)
Bytes Total: Total traffic for the port in this site
Bytes Upstream: Total upstream traffic for the port in this site
Bytes Downstream: Total downstream traffic for the port in this site
Throughput (Max): Maximum throughput for upstream and downstream traffic for the port in this site
Throughput Downstream (Max): Maximum throughput for downstream traffic for the port in this site
Throughput Upstream (Max): Maximum throughput for upstream traffic for the port in this site
Sites SLA Metrics - The table shows the following SLA details for up to 100 top sites according to the total traffic volume, sorted in alphabetical order:
Site Name: Name of the site
Interface Name: Name for the interface (defined in the Cato Management Application)
Latency RTT (avg): Average round trip time (RTT) for the interface in this site
Jitter Upstream (avg): Average upstream jitter for the interface in this site
Jitter Downstream (avg): Average downstream jitter for the interface in this site
Discarded Packets Downstream: Number of packets discarded by the Cato QoS engine for downstream traffic for the interface in this site
Discarded Packets Upstream: Number of packets discarded by the Cato QoS engine for upstream traffic for the interface in this site
Lost Packets Downstream: Number of packets lost for downstream traffic for the interface in this site
Lost Packets Upstream: Number of packets lost for upstream traffic for the interface in this site