View Demand Reports

Paragon Automation enables you to generate and view Demand reports that help you analyze network traffic. For information on the types of Demand reports and how to generate them, see Demand Reports Overview.

To view demand reports, select Reports > Demand.

You can perform the following actions on this page:

• View the following demand reports:

  • VPN Demand reports, see Table 1.

  • Group Demand reports, see Table 2.

  • Label-switched paths (LSP) Demand reports, see Table 3.
  • Autonomous system (AS) Demand reports, see Table 4.

• Download a report—Hover over the Download button on the top-right corner of the report and select either CSV or JSON to download the report as a comma-separated values file (CSV) or JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) file, respectively.

• Show or hide columns in a report—Click the vertical ellipsis icon at the top right corner of the report and select the columns that you want displayed in the report.

  Only the columns that you selected are included in the report.

• View traffic in a time series graph—Select a demand and click More > Show Chart. The Time Series page appears, displaying a time series graph that shows the amount of traffic (in bps) for the time range for which you've generated the demand report. The x-axis indicates the time, while the y-axis indicates the amount of traffic.

Table 1 explains the fields displayed in the VPN Demand reports.

Note:

In addition to the fields described in the following tables, each of these reports displays the amount of traffic flow (in bps). Based on the period that you specified in the Demand Traffic Schedule field when adding the demand report task, you may see one or multiple columns displaying this data:

• Data pertaining to each hour, for the past 24 hours, if you've selected the Demand Range for last 24 hours option.
• Data pertaining to the past N days, if you've selected the Demand Range for N days option.
• Data pertaining to the selected time period, if you've selected the Date Range option.

Table 1: VPN Demand Reports

Field	Description
Routing Table	The name of the global routing table (default) or a routing-instance (like VRFs), where the ingress interface is configured. The ingress interface is an interface where sampling is performed.
Type	The type of demand data (LDP or IP) collected.
Ingress PE	The name of the provider edge (PE) device from which traffic flows.
Egress PE	The name of the PE device to which traffic flows.
Next Hop	The IP address of the BGP next hop.

Table 2 explains the fields displayed in the Group Demand reports.

Table 2: Group Demand Reports

Field	Description
Group	The name of the node group for which the report is generated.

Table 3 explains the fields displayed in the LSP Demand reports.

Table 3: LSP Demand Reports

Field	Description
LER: LSP	The name of the label-edge router (LER), which is the ingress node from which the LSP originates, and the LSP name.

Table 4 explains the fields displayed in the AS Demand reports.

Note:

Based on the types of AS reports that you've selected when adding the demand reports task, you may see one or more of the following fields.

Table 4: AS Demand Reports

Field	Description
Ingress PE	Name of the PE device from which traffic flows.
Egress PE	Name of the PE device to which traffic flows.
Ingress AS	Name of the AS from which traffic flows.
Egress AS	Name of the AS to which traffic flows.