Summary Dashboard Nile Portal Usage Metrics
This KnowledgeBase article shows how to check and verify various aggregated metrics, like traffic usage and user counts, via the Nile portal Dashboard
- Navigate to Nile Portal → Summary Tool button
- Select the desired scope from the drop-down tool.
- Select the time interval using the drop-down time tool:
The Nile Portal shows a very long screen of information when the ALL button is the current selection, as it is by default. The top part is the overall summary of all traffic for the time selected, for all, wired, and wireless activity.
When the WIRELESS button is clicked, the top summary shows only WiFi traffic: The checkboxes for 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz, can further limit the source of the summary information.
When the WIRED button is clicked, the top summary shows only Ethernet traffic:
The next section of the summary (not illustrated here) show aggregate graphs of:
- Count of unique users per day
- Count of unique devices per day
- Gigabytes of upload, download, and total traffic
Moving the curser over the counts and graphs display pop-up detailed information of the data behind the graphs.
The next section of the summary (not illustrated here) shows a Top 10 list (or 1, 5, 20, 40, or 50) of users, devices, sites, and SSIDs in tables. Each page of each table holds at most five entries; use the "<" and ">" to navigate to other pages. The Search tool in each table can help fine down the desired information.
- Top users by usage
- Top devices by usage
- Top wireless service (SSIDs) by usage
- Top wired service (buildings) by usage
- Top manufacturers by usage
- Top operating systems (OS) by usage
- To device types by usage
- Top applications and protocols by usage.
