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From the Scheduled Reports menu subsection, you can select the View Schedules menu item to view the schedules of reports to be run. Cisco PVM lists the scheduled, running, pending and completed reports.

Baselining and Alerts in Cisco PVM

Cisco PVM provides you with the ability to proactively monitor the network using thresholds. You can identify problems and trouble spots before they impact users. Threshold violations result in alerts, which can be viewed in the Alert Viewer. Cisco PVM provides you with the ability to set two kinds of thresholds.

Fixed Thresholds – These thresholds accept absolute values for severity levels and the statistic of choice, the crossing of which results in alerts.

Dynamic Thresholds – These thresholds accept percentages. When a dynamic threshold is set, Cisco PVM starts baselining the selected statistic by creating a moving average and calculating the standard deviation for incoming data points. The standard deviation and moving average combine to account for traffic patterns and also for expected spikes in traffic. Cisco PVM uses these values to calculate a rising and falling threshold level (Baseline + Standard deviation = Rising Threshold, Baseline - Standard deviation = Falling Threshold) and issues alerts when the incoming values are the specified percentage over the threshold levels.

To create a threshold, click Add in the Thresholds menu item of the Setup tab. The following screen is displayed.

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Contents Corporate Headquarters USA Cisco Performance Visibility Manager ART Monitoring Data Collection and Traffic AnalysisTraffic Analysis including Top-N Analysis Historical InformationNAM GUI Drill down CiscoWorks and Ldap IntegrationSample Deployment Scenario PVM in LAN and WAN Basic questions about the Problems to be addressed Placing Cisco NAM in Your NetworkTypical workflow for deploying Cisco PVM Configure the NAMs in Your NetworkDeploy PVM and add the NAMs in Cisco PVM Start monitoring your network using Cisco PVM Create the Datasource Groups DSGs in Cisco PVMNAM Setup Usage ScenariosUser Setup Cisco PVM Initial SetupUser Management through the GUI User management through Ldap Mapping Ldap users to PVM roles Adding a NAM through the GUICisco Internal Use Only Importing Multiple Devices DCR Export File Import File FormatsUser created CSV file Datasource Group DSG Creation Cisco Internal Use Only Scenario 1 Traffic Profiling Contd Cisco Internal Use Only Cisco Internal Use Only Cisco Internal Use Only Contd Scenario 2 Proactive Monitoring Create an ART Group that carries traffic you are interestedContd Click the Setup tab Click the Thresholds menu item Click Add Contd Cisco Internal Use Only PVM displays the details of the threshold violation Scenario 3 Troubleshooting Verify the link utilization on the client Branch Router Click RefreshClick Connect Cisco Internal Use Only Overview of PVM functionality Traffic Analysis using Cisco PVMMonitoring Cisco Internal Use Only Aggregation Schemes Real-Time and Trend Charts Report ViewsDrill-downs Report Name Drill-Down Reports Available ReportingCisco Internal Use Only Art Setup Application Response Time Analysis in Cisco PVM Art Reports Cisco Internal Use Only ART Report Archives Baselining and Alerts in Cisco PVM Cisco Internal Use Only Generating Snmp Traps Alerts in Cisco PVM Cisco Internal Use Only Software Cisco PVM Requirements and SizingMinimum Server Requirements Hardware Minimum Client Requirements HardwareMaximum NAMs CPUs Cisco PVM Installation and UninstallationDisk Space Required Install Procedure Cd PVMINSTALLDIR/j2sdk142/binUninstall Procedure Start and Stop Procedure $su pvmadm $pvm stopTroubleshooting Tips Maintaining and Troubleshooting Cisco PVMArchiving Database ManagementPurging and retention period $su pvmadmGunzip -c archivefilenamecpio -icvB *switch Importing the archived filesConclusion Appendix Deployment Q&ACisco Internal Use Only Cisco Internal Use Only Deployment Troubleshooting Cisco Internal Use Only For More Information USA