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Hub - Kognitive Cloud

The Hub screen lists the Hubs and their client sites (agents) for the selected organization, with their data usage, availability, throughput, internet and MPK/VPN status and other details. The screen has four tabs: Hub, Agent, Agent Config and Events.

  1. Select Hub from the left menu of Kognitive Cloud. The Hub tab is selected by default.

  2. In the Organization field, select the organization or sub-organization. The organization of the logged-in user is selected by default, and the list contains all of its sub-organizations.

  3. In the Hub field, select the required hubs (default: All Sites).

  4. Select the Period from the dropdown at the top-right: Last 15 min, Last 1 Hr, Last 6 Hr, Last 12 Hr, Last 1 Day, Last 7 Days, Last 30 Days or MTD. You can also select a custom interval using the From and To fields.

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Hub

Hub table

  • The table lists all the hubs of the selected organization. Use the search field to find a hub.

  • Click the arrow (>) at the start of a row to expand it and show the client sites (agents) connected to that hub. If no client is connected, the row shows No Clients Connected.

  • The table shows the following information:

    • Device / Agent ID – device ID of the hub or client.

    • Site / Agent Name – name of the hub or client site.

    • Organization – name of the organization.

    • Location – location of the site.

    • Usage (GB) – data consumed by the site.

    • Avail (%) – availability of the site.

    • Throughput (Mbps)

    • Clients – number of clients associated with the hub.

    • Internet Status – Online, Offline or Unknown. Click the status to open the Internet Status Summary (see below).

    • MPK/VPN Status – for a hub, the number of connected clients; for a client, its MPK/VPN status (for example Online). Click a client’s status to open its WAN interface details (see below).

    • Tunnels Connected – number of tunnels connected.

    • Portal – click the link icon to open the Edge Portal of the site.

  • Click a Site / Agent Name to open the Topology screen of that site, or a Location to open it on the Map screen.

When sites connect to a Hub, QUIC TLS-based encryption is used to secure the communication. Authentication is performed based on the profile configured.

Internet Status

  • Under the Internet Status column, click the status of a hub or client to open the Internet Status Summary dialog.

  • The left side of the dialog shows the devices of the selected site. Click the refresh icon next to a device to reload its data, and select the required device.

  • The right side contains two tabs: Interfaces and Profiles.

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Internet Status Summary

Interfaces

  • The Interfaces tab is selected by default. The LAN Status indicator shows the LAN status of the device.

  • The table shows the following information for each interface:

    • Status – the interface name, colour-coded by its internet status:

      • image-20240719-143855.png Active – the link is enabled and passing traffic.

      • image-20240719-143912.png Standby – the link is enabled but not actively passing traffic.

      • image-20240719-143925.png Down – the link is enabled but not connected or experiencing an outage.

      • image-20240719-143941.png Disabled – the link is disabled; no traffic passes through it.

    • QoE – quality of experience of the link.

    • Uptime – percentage of time that the link is up.

    • Probe Pass – percentage of successful probes in the selected period.

    • Throughput – throughput of the link, in Mbps.

    • Speedtest Result and Speedtest Setting – result and settings of the speed test of the link.

    • Latency – round-trip time of a data packet, in ms.

    • Usage – total data consumed (download and upload), in GB.

Profiles

  • Click the Profiles tab to view the internet status of the WAN profiles configured on the selected device:

    • The WAN profiles configured on the device.

    • The access networks associated with each WAN profile.

    • The priority order of the WAN links of each profile.

    • The internet status of each WAN link, using the same colour coding as above.

MPK / VPN Status

  • In a hub row, the MPK/VPN Status column shows the number of connected clients.

  • In a client row, it shows the MPK/VPN status of the client (for example Online). Click the status to open the WAN interface dialog of the client.

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WAN interfaces of a client

  • The dialog shows the following information:

    • WAN Interface – colour-coded by its internet status, as above.

    • Speed (Mbps)

    • Latency (ms)

    • Flows

    • Usage – in GB.

    • Last Observed – date and time when the interface was last observed.

  • Click an interface name to open the SDWAN screen with the Site, Interfaces and Metric filled in according to your selection.

The following pages explain the other tabs of the Hub screen: