Gigastor Reports - Network Instruments GigaStor User Manual

Stop capture when disk
is full
Use physical port
selections...
Auto-update GigaStor
chart...
Keep focus on GigaStor
...
Update display...in 30
second intervals
Display only defined
subnets
Enable IP DNS resolution
Enable packet time
charting...

GigaStor reports

Tip! The reports in the GigaStor Control Panel share the many of the same options and configurations as reports
available in Observer Suite.
There are several default reports available for you.
1. Choose Capture > GigaStor Control Panel.
2. Click the Settings button.
3. Click the Reports Setup tab.
4. Select a report name and click Edit to change the report's characteristics.
5. Use the arrow buttons to position graphs and tables on your report.
6. Double-click a section of the report to modify its caption, detail, and number format.
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indexing to conserve probe processing and storage resources. The default (and
recommended) setting is for Observer to automatically scale back the packets
it uses to update the analyzer display based on system load. Alternatively, you
can specify a Fixed Sampling Ratio to consider when updating the GigaStor
Control Panel Charts and statistical displays. A sampling ratio of 1 means every
packet is analyzed. and a ration of 10 means every 10 packets are analyzed. From
a statistics perspective analyzing every 10 or even 100 packets will provide the
trends you need without burdening the system by analyzing every packet.
For even more details, see
29).
When selected, the GigaStor stops capturing packets when the disk array is full.
The default behavior is to use circular (i.e.FIFO) disk writes, causing the oldest
buffer files to be overwritten as newer traffic is captured.
If "Stop capture when disk is full" is selected, you can choose this option to
display statistics sorted by Gen2 capture card physical port. This is useful
when you want to troubleshoot the individual links without having to load the
capturebuffer by clicking Analyze.
If selected, you must also select the "Track statistics information per physical port"
option in the Capture and Analysis Options section on this tab.
When selected, causes the listed actions to have the same effect as clicking the
Update Chart/Statistics buttons.
Keeps the focus in the GigaStor Control Panel instead of switching to the decode
pane.
When selected all tables will update in 30 second intervals. This does not affect
web-based reports, only the real-time displays in the analyzer.
When selected only defined subnets are displayed. The subnets must be defined
on the Subnet tab. See Defining your subnets in GigaStor (page 14)
about defining a subnet.
Select this option to enable IP DNS resolution within the GigaStor. If you have
several thousand hosts, you may wish to disable this option as it may take a long
time to resolve names for reports.
When selected packet time charts are created in small intervals if microburst
analysis is disabled.
Differences between statistics and packets (page
for details