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Exception Reporting

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Exception Reporting

Exception reporting lets you conﬁgure reports such that pages are gener-

ated only when exceptional criteria are met. In other words, when

activity is “normal” or unexceptional, no report page is created.

You deﬁne the exception criteria, which can be based either on a speciﬁed

threshold value for a particular statistic or on the baseline envelope for a

statistic.

Exception criteria can be speciﬁed for any Network Health, Response

Proﬁle, or Component Health graph. If a graph meets the exception cri-

teria, all graphs on the same page are generated.

With this scheme, you can deﬁne supporting graphs to be placed on the

same page as the exception graph (with the deﬁned exception criteria).

These supporting graphs may be useful for understanding why an excep-

tion has occurred. If the exception is met, then all graphs on the page are

generated; if the exception is not met, then none of the graphs are

generated.

Note that if two graphs on a page have exception criteria deﬁned, the

page will be generated if either graph meets the exception.

The $EXCEPTION graph variable can be used to include a description of

the exception criteria in any graph’s header or footer. If the exception

criteria are not met, then the variable’s value is null.

The following pages explain how to conﬁgure exception criteria for Net-

work Health, Response Proﬁle, and Component Health graphs.