Dashboards for Volume-based Licenses Usage

Licensed GigaSMART applications, when running on a GigaVUE V Series node, generate usage statistics. In the Volume-Based Licensing (VBL) scheme, a license entitles specific applications on your V series nodes to use a specified amount of total data volume over the term of the license. GigaVUE-FM tracks the total amount of data processed by the various licensed applications and provides visibility into the actual amount of data, each licensed application is using on each node, and track the overuse if any.

In cloud environment:

• when a monitoring session is created and deployed, you can only use applications that are licensed at that point.
• When a license goes into grace period, you will be notified, along with a list of monitoring sessions that would be affected in the near future.
• When a license finally expires (and has not been renewed yet), the monitoring sessions using the corresponding license will be undeployed, but not deleted from the database.
• When a license is later renewed or newly imported, such undeployed monitoring sessions will be redeployed.

Using the Volume Based License Application Usage and Bundle Usage dashboards, you can plan for better utilization of the licenses. These dashboards work on the principles of Fabric Health Analytics and are listed together with other dashboards. These VBL dashboards include both summary and daily dashboard pages.

• Summary usage dashboard: Displays summary for each period of VBL usage
• Daily usage dashboard: Displays more detailed view (down to the granularity of one day) about the app and bundle usages.

The VBL App Usage and Bundle Usage dashboards are reported at two time-granularities:

• Daily (5 minute differentials aggregated to 24 hours on the day boundary). You can use the Time Filter option to select the required time interval for which you need to view the visualization.
• Summary per Period (where each period = 3 months). You cannot use the Time Filter option to change the time interval.

Note:  Clicking on a bar chart on the App or Bundle Usage Summary dashboards does not display any further information. To view the originally displayed visualization if clicked inadvertently as mentioned above, navigate to a different dashboard and return to the original dashboard.

To access the dashboards:

1. Go to -> Analytics -> Dashboards.
2. Click on the required dashboard to view the visualizations.

Table 1:

Dashboard	Visualizations	Description
App Usage	Licensed App Allowance vs Usage	Displays details about usage of each of the licensed application against the allowance provided for a given time period.
Bundle Usage	VBL Bundle Usage	Displays details about the usage of bundled license against the allowance.
App Usage Summary	Licensed App Usage (Summary Per Period)	Displays the summary of the  application usage against allowance for a particular time period.
Bundle Usage Summary	Licensed Bundle Usage (Summary Per period)	Displays details about the usage of bundled license against allowance for a particular time period.

Table 2:

Dashboard	Visualizations	Description
Daily App Usage	Licensed App Allowance vs Usage	Displays details about the daily usage of each of the licensed application against the allowance provided and the overage. By default, it is shown for a 90-day time period. However, you can change the interval to the required time period.
	Aggregate Summary	Displays the following aggregation statistics: Highest Daily Usage Average Daily Usage 95th Percentile Daily Usage1 The 95th percentile daily usage for any day is calculated as follows: the daily usage for the trailing 90 days, including and up to the current day, are sorted in ascending order and the usage at the 95th percentile (near the high end) is reported as the 95th percentile usage for the day. In the daily usage widgets, the aggregate statistics uses the maximum of the 95th percentile usage for the days selected as per the Time Filter. The 95th percentile usage statistic allows the user to disregard exceptionally high values of usage (might have occurred due to extraordinary conditions) which do not represent normal high values.. Highest Daily Overage Average Daily Overage Average Daily Allowance
Daily Bundle Usage	VBL Bundle Usage	Displays details about the usage of bundled license against the allowance and the overage. The bundle can be coreVUE or netVUE.
	Aggregate Summary	Displays the following aggregation statistics: Highest Daily Usage Average Daily Usage 95th Percentile Daily Usage Highest Daily Overage Average Daily Overage Average Daily Allowance
App Usage Summary	Licensed App Usage (Summary Per Period)	Displays the summary of the  application usage against allowance and overage. The visualization displays: Total Usage Total Overage
Bundle Usage Summary	Licensed Bundle Usage (Summary Per period)	Displays details about the usage of bundled license against allowance and overage. The visualization displays: Total Usage Total Overage The number of days of overage for any period is also displayed for Bundle Usage summary

Refer to the Fabric Health Analytics BETA section for details on how to clone a dashboard, create a new visualization, and other detailed information.