Bridges

These displays provide process data for bridges configured on a VPN. Displays in this View are:

Bridges Table

By default, a subset of available metrics is shown. Use More Columns/Less Columns to toggle to the complete set of metrics available (and back to the subset).

Select a broker and VPN from the drop-down menus. Use the check-boxes

to include / exclude Enabled and Expired bridges. Each table row is a different bridge.

Search by clicking the right side of a column heading/Filter to open the Search, Sort and Choose Columns dialog:

Rows listing bridges that are disabled or expired display with a shaded background. Double-click a row to drill down and investigate in the Bridge Summary display.

	Broker	Displays the name of the broker
	Local VPN	The name of the local VPN.
	Bridge Name	The name of the bridge.
	Alert Level	The current level of alerts in the row. Red indicates that one or more metrics exceeded their ALARM LEVEL threshold. Yellow indicates that one or more metrics exceeded their WARNING LEVEL threshold. Green indicates that no metrics have exceeded their alert thresholds.
	Alert Count	The total number of active alerts for the process.
	Remote VPN	The name of the remote VPN that is connected to the local VPN via the bridge.
	Remote Router	The name of the remote broker.
	Admin State	Indicates whether the bridge has been administratively enabled (via SolAdmin or the command line interface).
	Inbound Operational State	The current inbound operational status of the bridge. (The administrator can turn off a bridge's input or output for maintenance or other reasons.)
	Outbound Operational State	The current outbound operational status of the bridge. (The administrator can turn off a bridge's input or output for maintenance or other reasons.)
	Queue Operational State	The current operational status of the queue.
	Connection Establisher	Indicates whether the administrator created and configured the bridge directly on the broker using SolAdmin or the command line interface, or indirectly from another broker.
	Redundancy	Displays whether the bridge is the primary bridge, the backup bridge, the static bridge (default bridge used when no other bridge is available), or whether it is the only bridge available (none).
	Uptime	The current amount of time in which the bridge has been up and running.
	Client Name	The name of the client.
	Connected Via Addr	The local IP address and port used for the bridge.
	Connected Via Interface	The name of the network interface used for the bridge.
	Client Direct Bytes Rcvd	The number of bytes contained within direct messages received by the client via the bridge.
	Client Direct Bytes/sec Rcvd	The number of bytes contained within direct messages received per second by the client via the bridge.
	Client Direct Bytes Sent	The number of bytes contained within direct messages sent by the client via the bridge.
	Client Direct Bytes/sec Sent	The number of bytes contained within direct messages sent per second by the client via the bridge.
	Client Direct Msgs/sec Rcvd	The number of bytes contained within direct messages received per second by the client via the bridge.
	Client Direct Msgs Sent	The number of direct messages sent by the client via the bridge.
	Client Direct Msgs/sec Sent	The number of direct messages sent per second by the client via the bridge.
	Client NonPersistent Bytes Rcvd	The number of bytes contained within non-persistent messages received by the client via the bridge.
	Client NonPersistent Bytes/sec Rcvd	The number of bytes contained within non-persistent messages received per second by the client via the bridge.
	Client NonPersistent Bytes Sent	The number of bytes contained within non-persistent messages sent by the client via the bridge.
	Client NonPersistent Bytes/sec Sent	The number of bytes contained within non-persistent messages sent per second by the client via the bridge.
	Client NonPersistent Msgs Rcvd	The number of non-persistent messages received by the client via the bridge.
	Client NonPersistent Msgs/sec Rcvd	The number of non-persistent messages received per second by the client via the bridge.
	Client NonPersistent Msgs Sent	The number of non-persistent messages sent by the client via the bridge.
	Client NonPersistent Msgs/sec Sent	The number of non-persistent messages sent per second by the client via the bridge.
	Client Persistent Bytes Rcvd	The number of bytes contained within persistent messages received by the client via the bridge.
	Client Persistent Bytes/sec Rcvd	The number of bytes contained within persistent messages received per second by the client via the bridge.
	Client Persistent Bytes Sent	The number of bytes contained within persistent messages sent by the client via the bridge.
	Client Persistent Bytes/sec Sent	The number of bytes contained within persistent messages sent per second by the client via the bridge.
	Client Persistent Msgs Rcvd	The number of persistent messages received by the client via the bridge.
	Client Persistent Msgs /sec Rcvd	The number of persistent messages received per second by the client via the bridge.
	Client Persistent Msgs Sent	The number of persistent messages sent by the client via the bridge.
	Client Persistent Msgs/sec Sent	The number of persistent messages sent per second by the client via the bridge.
	Total Client Bytes Rcvd	The number of bytes contained within all messages received by the client via the bridge.
	Total Client Bytes/sec Rcvd	The number of bytes contained within all messages received per second by the client via the bridge.
	Total Client Bytes Sent	The number of bytes contained within all messages sent by the client via the bridge.
	Total Client Bytes/sec Sent	The number of bytes contained within all messages sent per second by the client via the bridge.
	Total Client Msgs Rcvd	The total number of all messages received by the client via the bridge.
	Total Client Msgs/sec Rcvd	The total number of all messages received per second by the client via the bridge.
	Total Client Msgs Sent	The total number of all messages sent by the client via the bridge.
	Total Client Msgs/sec Sent	The total number of all messages sent per second by the client via the bridge.
	Total Out Discards	The total number of discarded outgoing messages sent by the client via the bridge.
	Total Out Discards/sec	The total number of discarded outgoing messages sent per second by the client via the bridge.
	Total In Discards	The total number of discarded incoming messages received by the client via the bridge.
	Total In Discards/sec	The total number of discarded incoming messages received per second by the client via the bridge.
	Expired	When checked, performance data about the broker has not been received within the time specified.
	Timestamp	The date and time the row of data was last updated.

Bridges Diagram

Use this topology view to monitor the health of your network bridges and VPNs. Quickly identify bridge and VPN connections, their health status and which resources their performance impacts. Open the Solace PubSub+ Manager by right-clicking on a router and selecting Launch PubSub+ Manager.

Drag and drop objects to arrange them on the screen (doing so does not logically impact the network bridges and VPNs). Arrows show the connections between VPNs and bridges.

Each object is a network bridge or VPN. Each is labeled with their name and color coded as follows:

Layout: Toggles between two types of layouts. One layout positions objects to the right so you might scroll in that direction to see them. The other layout pulls all the objects close together to the left, vertically, in hierarchical order.

Look at the miniature view in (upper left) to see all objects in either layout. Or zoom into the display using Ctrl+/- or Ctrl+ mouse wheel.

Bridge Summary

View current and historical performance and utilization metrics for a particular bridge on a VPN.

Select a broker, a VPN, and a bridge from the drop-down menus. Metric cards at the top of the displays show Inbound and Outbound Client Messages per second, Ingress and Egress Discarded Messages, and Ingress and Egress KBs per second.

You can hover over the metric cards to see more performance metrics and also drill down to see even more detail by clicking on them.

The trend graph traces current and historical performance metrics for the selected broker. The trend graph traces the performance metric you select: Message Flow or Throughput.

You can hover over the trend graph to see the values at a particular time. You can specify the time range for the trend graph and view data based on a log scale, which enables visualization on a logarithmic scale and should be used when the range in your data is very broad.

	Inbound Client Msgs/s	The number of client messages received per second.
	Outbound Client Msgs/s	The number of client messages sent per second.
	Ingress Discarded Client Msgs/s	The number of discarded ingress messages per second.
	Egress Discarded Msgs/s	The number of discarded egress messages per second.
	Inbound Client KB/s	The amount of incoming client data, in KB per second.
	Outbound Client KB/s	The amount of outgoing client data, in KB per second.
Messages Flow Trend Graphs Traces the sum for the selected client. Inbound Client Msgs/s: The number of client messages received per second. Outbound Client Msgs/s: The number of client messages sent per second.
	Log Scale	Select to enable a logarithmic scale. Use Log Scale to see usage correlations for data with a wide range of values. For example, if a minority of your data is on a scale of tens, and a majority of your data is on a scale of thousands, the minority of your data is typically not visible in non-log scale graphs. Log Scale makes data on both scales visible by applying logarithmic values rather than actual values to the data.
	Time Settings	By default, the time range end point is the current time. To change the time range, click the Time Settings and either: choose a Time range from 5 Minutes to 7 Days in the drop-down menu. specify begin/end dates using the calendar . specify begin/end time using the clock . Toggle forward/backward in the trend graph per the period you choose (from the Time range drop-down menu) using arrows . Restore settings to current time by selecting now .
	Remote VPN	The name of the remote VPN that is connected to the local VPN via the bridge.
	Expired	When true, performance data about the bridge has not been received within the time specified.
	Address	The IP address.
	Interface	The interface ID.
	Queue Operational State	Refer to Solace documentation for more information.
	Last Update	The date and time of the last data update.
	Critical/Warning	The number of critical alerts / warning alerts which also opens the Alerts Table.
	Remote Router	The remote broker.
	Conn Establisher	Refer to Solace documentation for more information.
	Inbound Operational State	The current inbound operational status of the bridge. (The administrator can turn off a bridge's input or output for maintenance or other reasons.)
	Admin State	Indicates whether the bridge has been administratively enabled (via SolAdmin or the command line interface).
	Client Name	The name of the client.
	Redundancy	Indicates whether the bridge is the primary bridge, the backup bridge, the static bridge (default bridge used when no other bridge is available), or whether it is the only bridge available (none).
	Outbound Op State	The current outbound operational status of the bridge. (The administrator can turn off a bridge's input or output for maintenance or other reasons.)