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The reporting features available depend on the client access level. A
Creating, Editing and You use the reports tree in the Reports area to carry out these tasks. Deleting Reports There are four levels within the tree:
■Report types — The eight report types are listed (see Chapter 12, “Report Types” for a detailed description of each type of report).
■Report instances — Each report instance appears as a child of its original report type. You can add a new report instance based on a selected report type, and edit, reschedule and delete report instances.
You can display a summary of key information about the configured report instance and scheduled generation and output. See “Interpreting Summary Information” on page 94 for more information.
When you add a report instance, the grouping currently applied in the Map is used.
■Raw data — Each time a report instance is run, either scheduled or ad hoc, Traffix Manager stores the raw report data in the relational database. The raw data is shown as a child of the report instance, and labeled with the date it was run.
You can select the raw data for any date of interest and
Raw data is gathered for a specific time period according to the schedule set up for a report instance. At each scheduled generation point, a new raw data entry is added. For example, if you add a top N devices report instance to be generated daily, seven raw data entries are added in one week.
Each raw data icon is marked with a tick if generated successfully, or with a cross if its generation failed. (Generation could fail if, for example, the database is full. See “Troubleshooting Reports” on page 116 if necessary.)
You can also display a summary of key information about the raw data. See “Interpreting Summary Information” on page 94 for more information.
