Application Visibility

The Manage > Applications tab provides detailed information on data usage by the clients connected to APs and Branch Gateways in the network. Clicking the Applications tab displays a Visibility dashboard that provides a summary of client traffic and their data usage to and from applications, and websites. You can also analyze the client traffic flow using the graphs displayed in the Visibility dashboard.

To view the graphs on the Visibility pane, ensure that the Application Visibility service is enabled. For more information, see Enabling Application Visibility Service on APs.

Viewing Visibility Dashboard

To view the Visibility dashboard, complete the following steps:

In the Network Operations app, select one of the following options:
1. To navigate to the applications tab for a site, set the filter to one of the options under Sites. For all devices, set the filter to Global.
  The dashboard context for the selected filter is displayed.
2. To navigate to the applications tab for a client, set the filter to one of the options under Groups. For all devices, set the filter to Global.
  The dashboard context for the selected filter is displayed.
  - Under Manage, click Clients.
    A list of all connected clients is displayed in the List view.
  - Select any one of the connected clients from the list.
Under Manage, click Applications. The visibility dashboard is displayed.

The applications data is not displayed for campus APsCampus APs are used in private networks where APs connect over private links (LAN, WLAN, WAN or MPLS) and terminate directly on controllers. Campus APs are deployed as part of the indoor campus solution in enterprise office buildings, warehouses, hospitals, universities, and so on. at the Client and Site level.

The Visibility dashboard displays metrics and graphs related to client traffic flow in the following sections:

Applications
Websites
Blocked Traffic

To view the client traffic details, ensure that the DPIDeep Packet Inspection. DPI is an advanced method of network packet filtering that is used for inspecting data packets exchanged between the devices and systems over a network. DPI functions at the Application layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model and enables users to identify, categorize, track, reroute, or stop packets passing through a network. access rules are enabled on the AP device. For more information, see Aruba Central Help Center.
The Blocked Traffic tab is only displayed in Global level in the Network Operations > Manage > Applications page.
Application Visibility data is updated every 0th minute of every hour. The data population on the Applications > Visibility dashboard may be delayed by an hour when compared to the Application Visibility data displayed in the Applications pages for the Group, Global, and APs.

Graph View in Visibility Dashboard

Click the Summary icon in the Visibility dashboard to view both the applications and websites graphical information:

Applications
- Applications—The stacked bar graph and the pie chart in this tab displays details of the client traffic flowing to or from the top five classified applications listed in the Applications table. The legend below the graphs displays the list of applications to which the traffic flow is detected. Select or deselect the application check box to show or hide the traffic flow data from the pie chart and stacked bar. By hovering the mouse on pie chart and stacked bar, you can view the size of data flowing to and from the application same as displayed in legend.
- Categories—The stacked bar graph in this tab displays details of the client traffic flowing to or from the top five classified application categories listed in the Applications table. The legend below the graphs displays the list of applications categories to which the traffic flow is detected. Select or deselect the application category check box to show or hide the traffic flow data from the pie chart and stacked bar. By hovering the mouse on pie chart and stacked bar, you can view the size of data flowing to and from the application same as displayed in legend.
Websites
- Reputations—The stacked bar graph and the pie chart in this tab displays details of client traffic flow for the top three reputations listed in the Websites table. The legend displays the list of websites based on its reputation, to which the traffic flow is detected. Select or deselect the reputation check box to show or hide the data from the pie chart and stacked bar. By hovering the mouse on pie chart and stacked bar, you can view the size of data flowing to and from each of the websites that are categorized based on reputation.
- Web Categories—The stacked bar graph and the pie chart in this tab displays details of client traffic flow for the top five web categories listed in the Websites table. Select or deselect the web category check box to show or hide the data from the pie chart and stacked bar. You can view the size of data flowing to and from each of the web categories by hovering the mouse on both the stacked bar graph and pie chart. The legend below the graphs displays the list of websites based on its reputation, to which the traffic flow is detected.