Cisco IP Solution Center Traffic Engineering Management User Guide, 4.1
Task Monitoring

Table Of Contents

Task Monitoring

TE Task Logs

SR Deployment Logs

Logs Created from Task Manager

Viewing a Task Log

From the Tasks window

From the Service Requests Window

TE Performance Reports


Task Monitoring


All deployment and collection tasks are monitored and the details of the tasks are logged. The information can be viewed using the task monitoring pages.

This chapter includes the following sections:

TE Task Logs

SR Deployment Logs

Logs Created from Task Manager

Viewing a Task Log

TE Performance Reports

TE Task Logs

The TE task logs are used to view the result of running one or more TE tasks as described in TE Tasks.

Different task logs are generated by different events:

SR deployment logs

Logs generated by tasks issued from the Task Manager, such as:

TE Discovery

TE Functional Audit

TE Interface Performance.

SR Deployment Logs

When any service request is deployed, whether a managed or unmanaged primary tunnel or a backup tunnel, a log is generated. For tunnel SRs, deployment takes place in multiple phases depending on the type of SR and the task logs are created similarly:

Primary tunnel SR—a three-phase logging process corresponding to a three-phase deployment (phases A, B, and C as shown in Figure 10-1)

Protection SR—a two-phase logging process corresponding to a two-phase deployment

In addition to the deployment logs, a ConfigAudit log is created regardless of the type of SR deployment, providing the deployment was successful.

Logs Created from Task Manager

Specific instructions for how to generate and view a task log for a TE Discovery task are found in Task Logs.

Instructions for how to generate and view a task log for the TE Functional Audit and TE Interface Performance tasks are found in Creating a TE Task.

Viewing a Task Log

A task log can be accessed from two different locations:

The Tasks window

The Service Requests window

From the Tasks window

To view the task log for a TE task, you need to:

1. Access the Task Logs window.

2. Select the desired log and open it.

To view the task logs, use the following steps. A task log from the deployment of a managed primary tunnel has been used as an example.


Step 1 Navigate Monitoring > Task Manager.

Step 2 Select Logs in the table of contents on the left side of the Tasks window. The Task Logs window in Figure 10-1 appears.

Figure 10-1 Task Logs

For an explanation of the various window elements, see Task Log.

Step 3 Select a Task Log for viewing. A task that has been scheduled for multiple runs might have multiple instances to view.

Click the desired task in the Action column. The corresponding Task Log window in Figure 10-2 appears.

Figure 10-2 Task Log - Performance Collection with Error

For an explanation of the various window elements, see Task Log.

The logged messages are shown in a table. This includes the time the log message was created and the severity level assigned to the log message.

There is a filter setting for the logging, which defaults to SEVERE. This means that only SEVERE messages in the log are shown. There are several different filter settings that can be selected according to the desired level of detail. To change the filter level, select the one that is required and click Filter.

How the log is structured depends on the type of task that was run.

Step 4 Click Return to Logs to close the log window. This takes you back to the main Task Logs window.

Step 5 To see the task SR, which in some cases is associated with a particular task log, select the desired task log and click the Service Requests button. The Tasks SRs window appears (Figure 10-3).

Figure 10-3 Task SRs

For an explanation of the various window elements, see Task Log.


From the Service Requests Window

To access the logs from the Service Requests window:


Step 1 Nagivate to Service Inventory > Inventory and Connection Manager > Service Requests.

Step 2 Select a service request (only one).

Step 3 Click the Status button and select Logs.

Step 4 Select the log to view and click View Log. The Task Log window appears.

Step 5 Select the log level from the drop-down menu and click Filter. The log levels are All, Severe, Warning, Info, Config, Fine, Finer, and Finest.


TE Performance Reports

A TE Performance Report is created when you run a TE Interface Performance task as described in Creating a TE Interface Performance Task.

It shows the traffic data collected from the TE Interface Performance task for selected tunnels and/or links. The TE Interface Performance task can run multiple times.

To view a TE Performance Report, use the following steps:


Step 1 Navigate Monitoring > TE Performance Report.

The TE Performance Report Table in Figure 10-4 appears.

Figure 10-4 TE Performance Report Table

For an explanation of the various window elements in the report table, see TE Performance Reports.