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Strategy for | This section contains a strategy to help new users begin reporting with |
Reporting | Traffix Manager. |
Getting Started One of the most beneficial features of the Report Manager is that you can use it to obtain a picture of your network’s usual behavior.
The quickest report to run is the top N segments report. This report shows you the activity on your network and helps you determine whether that activity is predictable and consistent from week to week.
You can also configure device activity reports on your most important network devices to monitor significant changes.
How Long Does it Depending on the volume of traffic on your network and the period Take to Generate covered by a report, it may take anything from a minute to more than an
Reports? hour for a report to be run and output. For example, a top N devices report, set up to determine the top 10 devices from a network containing 100,000 devices over a period in which 1 million connections were seen, could take an hour or more to run.
Therefore, scheduled reports are run overnight, to be delivered to your Web server or printer in the morning. Ad hoc reports can be started from the Report Manager but, according to the quantity of data being processed and the number of reports queued, they may not be output immediately.
Tips and Hints Due to the time that may be required to generate and output a report, you may wish to try the following:
Use Graphs to Identify Key Components Quickly
To identify unusual or interesting devices, groups or connections on your network, use the Top Objects and Top Connections graphs available from the Map. Then schedule reports on these objects and connections for longer term monitoring. See Chapter 8, “Displaying Traffic in Graphs” for more information.
Use Grouping to Focus Reports
To filter and focus the search for interesting data, group objects into meaningful views of your network. Then create reports for particular
