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Displaying Historical Charts

Starting and Stopping the Historical Daemon

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A Historical Chart displays a single graph that provides details of previous activity
on device interfaces or DLCIs. Before you can launch and view a Historical Chart,
you must start the Historical daemon and enable historical data collections for
each device on which you want to collect historical data.
The following sections discuss how to:
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Start and stop the Historical daemon
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Enable or disable Historical Data Collection
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Launch a Historical Chart
See Chapter 4 , Using Historical Charts
charts to help you manage performance of your devices.
To collect historical information, the Performance Wizard uses a Historical (Data
Collection) Daemon that runs in the background. The daemon collects data from
those devices and DLCIs that have been enabled for historical data collection.
The information collected is stored in disk files that can be accessed in the form
of Historical Charts.
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To start the Historical daemon, click on the Action menu and select Start
Historical Daemon.
The Historical daemon icon, which is located next to the Status text field
within the Navigation Wizard, changes color (from red with a slash (/) to
green) when the Historical daemon is active.
In the following example, the bottom portion of the Navigation Wizard window
is displayed. The Historical daemon icon is green, which indicates that the
Historical daemon is enabled.
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To stop the Historical daemon, click on the Action menu and select Stop
Historical Daemon.
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Using the Navigation Wizard
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