Monitoring Switches and Switch Stacks

The HPE Aruba Networking Central application supports the advanced switch monitoring features, which contains pages and tools to provide an at-a-glance overview of:

• the health of the switch

• connected clients

• device and network information

Additionally, it provides quick and seamless navigation to the switch performance metrics that are related to network and clients connectivity.

The HPE Aruba Networking Central switch monitoring feature offers the following:

• Switch Dashboard—Provides a summarized card view of the key statistics, trend graphs, and other attributes that contribute to the functioning of a switch in a network. You can navigate to the following pages from the switch dashboard.

  • Site—Provides site location details of the selected switch and a line chart that indicate the site health in percentage.

  • Network—Displays information about the network and switch interfaces.

  • Clients —Provides details of the clients connected to the selected switch.

  • Alerts—Provides details about alerts.

• Notes—Allows to create or modify notes for the switch or a stack. For more information, see Device Notes.

• Troubleshoot— Provides network administrators and authorized users with a set of diagnostic tools to troubleshoot network and device issues efficiently. For more information, see Troubleshooting Tools

• Restart— Restarts the device manually.

• Locate Device— Locates the device. The LEDs on the switch will blink for 60 seconds.

For more information, see Viewing Switch or Switch Stack Dashboard.