Apple 3 manual Exporting Report Information, To export a report

Here are some suggestions for evaluating your network performance based on this report:

ÂThe number of routers between your computer and another computer can affect the time the packets take to return. When you evaluate the times for a computer, you should compare them to the times for a computer in the same area of the network or with the same number of intervening routers.

ÂIf the maximum time for a packet to return from a computer is significantly greater than the time for other computers in the same area of the network, there may be a problem with the computer.

ÂIf a single computer has a large number of lost packets, there may be a problem with the network connection to that computer.

ÂIf several computers in the same area of the network have a large number of lost packets, there may be a network connection problem or a problem with an intervening router or bridge.

Exporting Report Information

You can export reports into a comma-delimited or tab-delimited text file. All the columns of information in the report window are included, and the report rows are exported in the order they’re sorted at the time of export.

Exported reports can be put into a database, spreadsheet, or word processor for further analysis or organization, or be sent to another administrator. You could even use certain reports as input files for network scanners for Remote Desktop.

Alternatively, you could access the report’s SQL database directly with your own SQL query tools or applications. Using standard SQL database queries you can get any or all information out of the report database for use with other applications or databases.

To export a report:

1Generate any report, and bring the report window to the front.

2If desired, sort the report rows by selecting a new column to sort by.

3If you do not want to export the entire report, select the rows to be exported.

4Choose File > Export Window.

5Name the file, and choose a location to save to.

6Select a text encoding.

ÂWestern (Mac OS Roman): Best choice if the report information uses the Roman alphabet, and the exported document will be opened in an application or on an operating system that does not support Unicode text encoding (for example, some installations of Mac OS 9).

ÂUnicode (UTF-8):Best choice if the exported file will be opened on Mac OS X and contains no Asian language characters (such as Chinese or Japanese).

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