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Strategy for
Reporting
Getting Started
How Long Does it
Take to Generate
Reports?
Tips and Hints
This section contains a strategy to help new users begin reporting with
Traffix Manager.
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.
Depending on the volume of traffic on your network and the period
covered by a report, it may take anything from a minute to more than an
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.
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
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
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