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Splash Page

The Splash page, or home page of the StifleR Dashboard provides a general overview of the activity of the StifleR clients on your network.

Access the Dashboard using this URL: http://<servername>/StifleRDashboard/#/splash

Description of Splash Page Diagrams:

Network /client ratios - provides a breakdown of clients and their relationship to Locations, Network groups, and Networks. Total data downloaded by source type - divides the number of downloads by source type such as the percentage of downloads which were downloaded via Delivery Optimization (DO) or BranchCache. BITS and BranchCache peer-to-peer - displays the amount and percentage of data which has been downloaded via BITS and BranchCache peers. Delivery Optimization and peer-to-peer - displays the amount and percentage of data which has been downloaded via DO and DO peers. BITS Internet vs on-prem source ratio - displays the amount and percentage of data which has been downloaded from the Internet using BITS vs on-prem sources such as distribution points. Networks with connected clients - displays the number of networks in which StifleR clients have reported from. Clients active - displays the number of StifleR clients reporting to the StifleR server. Agents online - displays the number of StifleR clients reporting as online. Agent versions - displays a list and percentage of versions of StifleR clients reporting to the StifleR server. License and server information - displays information about the StifleR server license, version, and metrics which represent the general activity of the system.

Main Statistics

The Main Statistics page provides a general overview of the content download activity reported to the StifleR server.

Description of Main statistics page diagrams:

Queue size - displays as a line graph the historical queue size of content being delivered across the network. Connected clients from <number of clients> - displays a line graph of the amount of connected clients compared to the total number of clients. WAN bandwidth - displays a line graph of the use WAN bandwidth. WAN Peer bandwidth - displays a line graph of the WAN peer bandwidth. Source location for completed downloads - displays a bar graph comparing the amount of data being transferred between DO, BITS, BITS P2P, and DP P2P sources. Queue size last day - displays a line graph of the queue size of DO and BITS content over the last day. Average WAN bandwidth usage source data last day - displays a line graph of the WAN bandwidth used between DP and BITS over the last day.

Transfer Overview

The Transfer Overview page dives deeper into the metrics of content being transferred on the network.