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groups, rather than for your entire network. See “Creating and Assigning Attributes” on page 44 for more information.

Generate a top N Summary Report to Determine Objects for an

Activity Report

You can run top N reports in two modes:

Summary mode just identifies the top N objects.

Summary plus detail mode generates a report including detailed information for each of the top N objects. Reports run in this mode take longer to generate.

To identify key network objects, generate a top N report in summary mode. Then schedule activity reports on any objects of particular interest.

Effects of Grouping

The creation and content of your reports is influenced in the following

on Reports

ways by how devices are grouped in the Map:

 

The current grouping in the Map determines the groups that can be

 

selected when configuring a report. See Chapter 4, “Grouping

 

Network Devices in the Map” for more information about groupings.

 

If you try to delete a grouping which report instances are dependent

 

on, the reports will be displayed and you will need to delete them

 

before you can delete the grouping.

 

Editing the attributes of a particular device may cause that device to

 

be moved into or out of a group. This affects report output if reports

 

are being produced for any of the groups concerned.

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