Device Visions in ACS
Introduction: A New Perspective for Your Monitoring
With Device Visions in the IXC ACS**, you gain an in-depth perspective on your system. They allow observing and understanding the behavior of devices under varying angles, such as** IPv6 performance**,** optical power stabilityand manufacturer distribution**. This makes monitoring clearer and more effective, revealing important details for your analysis and decision making**.
Path: Access the top right menu of the device screen to navigate between views.
Value Delivery
With the Visions, the monitoring becomes more agile and focused, allowing strategic analyses and decision making faster in the day to day. In addition, each view details relevant information to facilitate network management.
Visions Available and Their Benefits
- IPv6: Follow devices using IPv6 on the network, and easily identify which are without address or with IPv6 disabled.
- Optical power: monitor the optical signal levels of the connected equipment.
- Manufacturer: organize and visualize the devices according to the manufacturer.
- Reset: Quickly visualize the devices that have been reset, facilitating monitoring and corrective actions.
1. Default View: The General Panel
This view displays a complete overview of your devices, including essential information such as connection status, login, IPv4, IPv6, manufacturer, model, description and optic power levels (TX and RX). The Default View serves as an initial control panel, allowing you to quickly identify offline devices, address inconsistencies, and possible signal anomalies — functioning as a starting point for more specific analyses in the other views.
2. Manufacturer View: Strategic Equipment Management
It allows the provider to view the devices organized by manufacturer, facilitating understanding about which brands predominate in the network and how this evolves over time. This view helps to:
- Identify trends of purchase and installation.
- Plan negotiations with suppliers.
- Detect behavior patterns or faults associated with specific brands.
- Support decisions on type-approval or replacement of equipment. ######## The view is divided into:
- Most present manufacturer: Shows in percentage the manufacturer with more device models on the system.
- Most operated manufacturer (7D): Shows the most accessed and changed manufacturers in the last 7 days.
- Total by Manufacturer: Shows the total of devices grouped by manufacturers.
- Evolution by Manufacturer: Compare devices of a brand with other devices registered in the ACS.
3. Optical Power Vision: Failure Prevention
With this view, it is possible to quickly identify equipment outside the standards defined by the provider. This allows proactive adjustment and maintenance actions, preventing failures before impacting the final customer.
- TX/RX: Monitors the optical signal (TX and RX) levels of connected devices.
- TX reading: Shows the average reading in dBm (green color).
- RX reading: Shows the average reading in dBm (lax color).
- Very low sign: instability in connection, slow or frequent falls.
- Very high signal: optical port saturation, which can result in packet losses or authentication failures.
4. Reset View: Identification of Recurring Problems
It identifies the devices that have been reset, displaying the amount of times this occurred. This vision is fundamental to:
- Detect possible firmware or hardware problems.
- Identify manufacturers or models with atypical behavior.
- Map situations that may be causing dissatisfaction in the client, such as constant resets that impair the experience of use.
Quickly view the devices that have been reset, facilitating monitoring and corrective actions. Displays status, login, manufacturer, model, description and resets in the last 30 days.
- More reset model (30D): It shows in percentage the most reset model in the last 30 days.
- Resets by model (30D): Lists the amount of resets per model in the last 30 days.
5. IPv6 view: Transition Monitoring
Follow devices that use IPv6 on the network, and easily identify which are without address or with IPv6 disabled. The IPv6 view presents the IPv6 enabling status on each device, in addition to identifying those that:
- They have IPv6 activated and functioning properly.
- No address set.
- They've got IPv6 down.
Displays status, login, IPv6, IPv6 status, manufacturer, model and description.
- IPv6 State: Shows in percentage devices with IPv6 disabled.
- State of DNS IPv6: Shows in percentage devices with disabled IPv6 DNS.
Final considerations
The different views allow complete and efficient monitoring of the network, facilitating the identification of problems and trends in various aspects of the devices.