110CHAPTER 12: REPORT TYPES

Table 14 Top N Groups Report Charts (continued)

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Chart Title

Description

Section

 

 

 

 

Long Term

A line chart showing the total octets sent and received

 

Trend

by the device for as long as Traffix Manager has records.

2.1

Top Sub-Groups

A stacked bar chart showing the top 10 sub-groups

 

With Protocol

within the detail group, broken down by protocol. The

 

Distribution By

octet total has the same internal, external or overall

 

Octets

filter as the detail group applied.

3

Report

Information about the report itself.

 

Information

 

 

 

 

Top N Segments

This report calculates the top N segments by utilization, and by

Report

percentage of errors.

 

For most networks it is sufficient to allow Traffix Manager to select

 

automatically the top N segments by selecting All Segments for the top N

 

segments report.

Since it is possible that the top N segments identified by utilization are different from the top N segments identified by percentage of errors, Section 2 of this report can contain more than N segment details. If the high error segments are completely different from the high utilization segments, you end up with 2 x N details in the details section.

Table 15 Top N Segments Report Charts

Report

Chart Title

Description

Section

 

 

 

1.1

Top Segments

A bar chart containing the top N segments as measured

 

By Utilization

by percentage utilization of bandwidth.

 

Protocol

A pie chart showing the top 10 protocols seen across all

 

Distribution Of

of the N segments. If more than 10 protocols are seen,

 

Top Segments

the remainder are grouped as other.

 

Protocol

A stacked bar chart showing the protocol breakdown of

 

Distribution By

each of the N segments by octets. The order of the bars

 

Octets

is the same as the utilization bar chart. Because

 

 

utilization is not the same as octets, the bars in this

 

 

chart may not always appear in descending order. For

example, the utilization on a 100Mbps Ethernet segment may be quite low compared to a 10Mbps segment, but the octet count may be considerably higher.

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