Live view
Live is the view of one terminal’s telemetry in Nexus Telemetry Fleet, as the collector at the site sends it. Each terminal has a page in the dashboard, opened with Open terminal on the terminal’s panel. The page has 5 views, listed in the icon rail on the left while the page is open. Live is the first. See Add a collector for what a collector is.
| View | Shows |
|---|---|
| Live | The terminal’s telemetry now, on this page |
| Obstruction | The sky map, once the terminal has sent one. See Obstruction |
| Alerts | Open alerts, past outages and the event history. See Alerts |
| Diagnostics | Reachability from the collector to the internet, and what the terminal reports about itself. See Diagnostics |
| Admin | The collector’s configuration and the actions on it. See Terminal settings |
Every view but Live shows the terminal’s state, its group, its last reading, its uptime and its collector’s version at the top. The icon rail is the way back to the fleet.
Annunciator
The annunciator is the line at the top that says what the terminal is doing and how recent its last reading is. See States for the state words and the freshness words.
| Item | Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | The terminal’s display name and its hostname |
| State | The state word, and how long the terminal has been in that state |
| Freshness | How recent the last reading is: measuring, streaming, waiting, stale or offline, then last seen with the age of the last reading |
| Maintenance badge | The terminal is in a maintenance window |
| Silenced badge | The terminal’s alerts are silenced |
Instrument cards
There is one card per instrument: Download, Upload, Latency, Drop Rate, Obstruction, Power and Satellites. Every card but Obstruction gives the value now, the highest value in the last 15 minutes, and a bar showing the value against the instrument’s maximum. The Obstruction card gives Clear or Obstructed, the figure with its quality word and what to expect, and the sky disc. An instrument the terminal does not report has an empty card.
Below the instruments, Position gives the terminal’s coordinates and a map thumbnail. A terminal with no position says so, and offers Set a position to a user who can make changes, which opens the Location setting on the Admin view. See Collector GPS. Hardware, Firmware and Uptime give the terminal’s model, its software version and how long it has been running.
Charts and time range
The charts are download, upload, latency, drop rate and power. Satellites and obstruction have cards and no chart. The time range selects how much history the charts show: 2m, 5m, 15m, 1h, 6h, 24h, Week or Year. It opens on 15m, which is live.
Each chart’s scale starts at zero and is fixed, except that a reading above it extends the axis until that reading leaves the time range. The charts have history the moment they open, because the collector sends the last 15 minutes of readings with the first.
| Control | Effect |
|---|---|
| Rest the pointer on a chart | Marks that instant on every chart, with the value of every instrument at that instant |
| Expand chart | Opens the chart large, with Current, Min, Max and Average for the time range |
System bar
The system bar at the foot shows what the terminal reports about itself: Subsystems, the state of each part of the terminal, BW ↓ and BW ↑, the bandwidth limits down and up, Ethernet, the speed of the wired port, Snow melt, the heater’s setting, and Power, with its peak and average. An entry is shown only when the terminal reports it.
Live actions
The two actions are at the right of the annunciator. Users with the Owner, Admin or Operator role can run them. Both are refused while the terminal’s collector is offline. See Users and roles for the roles.
| Action | Effect |
|---|---|
| Speed test | Runs a speed test on the terminal. The test uses the connection’s full bandwidth for about a minute |
| Reboot | Reboots the terminal. The hostname must be typed to confirm |