Planning for Network Growth
When There Are No Recommendations
| When There Are No Recommendations |
| If the Add and Upgrade Equipment Report determines that, based on the |
| historical data for the time period you specified, there are no advantageous |
| ways to optimize the network, the Summary section of the report states that |
| there are no recommendations for changes to your network configuration at |
| this time. If you think that your network may need performance improve- |
| ments, try selecting a more representative time period. Verify that your traffic |
| data has been collected for the minimum time period, or the recommendations |
| may not be valid. |
| Looking at the Top Conversations table may help you determine where the |
| network traffic is occurring so that you can anticipate future growth needs. |
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N o t e | Adding devices that can sample data to high traffic segments that do not |
| already have them allows the Advisor to perform a more detailed analysis of |
| those segments. |
| Controlling Data Storage— |
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| Administration |
You can specify some criteria to control how much data is collected. Select Traffic Data Collector Settings from the Performance button in the navigation frame, then select the Storage tab. Your current settings are displayed in the Current Storage Status on Server area. The Historic Traffic Data collection area displays the following choices:
■Storing data up to a maximum number of days of data or a maximum amount of data, whichever occurs first. The default is 31 days, up to 100 MB. You can click the Default Values button to set these values.
■Storing data up to a maximum amount of data (in Megabytes).
■Stopping collection of historical traffic data for analysis by the Network Performance Advisor.
