DHCP Heat Map - BlueCat Integrity - 9.5.0

Address Manager Administration Guide
Locale
English
Product name
BlueCat Integrity
Version
9.5.0

The DHCP Heat Map provides DHCP lease distribution data which can help you track the patterns and device types to which IP addresses were assigned.

The DHCP Heat Map provides a visual representation of DHCP leases and device types. Data collection must be run before viewing the DHCP heat map.

Note: A known issue exists with the collection and display of historical lease data. For more information, refer to KI-015233 and KI-025442.
Note:
  • The density of the color for each date box on the calendar map represents a qualitative view of your data. That means different colors don't show any fixed quantity of DHCP lease amount. For example, if you are comparing a dark blue-colored date box with light blue-colored date box, this only means that the dark blue-colored date box has more DHCP leases on that particular date, compared to the light blue-colored date.
  • The Lease Number legend table displays different color schemes in use and the maximum number of DHCP leases for that color.
  • Each cell represents a day.
  • Different color schemes for cells present number of leases per day.

To view DHCP Heat Map data:

  1. Select the Administration tab. Tabs remember the page you last worked on, so select the tab again to ensure you're on the Administration page.
  2. Under Data Management, click Visualization.
  3. Click DHCP Heat Map.
  4. Click on a box on the calendar map to display DHCP lease information. The date and DHCP lease information will be displayed on the right side in a bar and donut chart format.
    Placing your cursor over the data on the chart will display DHCP lease numbers and device types for better visibility.
    • Bar chart—displays the number of new and renewed DHCP leases per hour in a day
    • Donut chart—displays the type of devices that received DHCP leases throughout the day
      Note: The Donut chart categorizes devices based on the hostname. Depending on the content found in the hostname of the device, it can be categorized in one of the following device types:
      Device type Found in hostname
      Android android
      iPhone iphone
      iPod ipod
      iPad ipad
      Blackberry blackberry
      IoT cradle
      Windows Phone windows-phone
      Macbook OS X
      • macbook
      • osx
      Virtual Machine
      • virtual
      • -vm
      Unix
      • linux
      • unix

      If the device type can't be categorized by the hostname, it's placed in the Other device type.