
Planning for Network Growth
Starting the Network Performance Advisor
message stating the problem displays during report generation. When the report completes successfully, information about the report execution, including any errors that occurred, is displayed in the Summary page of the report.
Viewing a Report
To view a report, click on the Explore Reports tab and select a report from the list. The reports are listed chronologically with the most recent report at the top of the list. New reports that have not been read have a New icon next to them. Each report displays in its own browser window, so you can look at more than one report at a time.
The button functions are:
■ View
| the bottom of the page. |
| ■ Rename |
| for the selected report. |
| ■ Delete |
| button. The report will be erased from the disk. |
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N o t e | If you rename a report after viewing it, then view the report again, the report |
| name is not updated if caching is enabled on your browser. This is because |
| you are seeing the old, cached version of the report. Use |
| new copy of the report. |
| Report Properties Section |
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| The Report Properties section lists the values for several characteristics of |
| the report. Report properties can be viewed for completed reports by selecting |
| the report, then clicking on Report Properties in the Table of Contents. |
| The report characteristics are described in the following table. |
Characteristic | Description |
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Name | The |
Number of Recommendations | The number of recommendations produced by this report |
| for possible network changes. |
Data Availability | Provides a measure of how much data was available |
| during the time period specified for the Network |
| Performance Advisor to analyze. For example, if you |
| selected a Time Spanned of 9/1/96 through 9/14/96, the |
| actual data available to the Network Performance Advisor |
| might be 92% of the total hours for the Time Spanned. |
Number of Hours Requested | The time span in hours requested for the report. |
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