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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. |