Specifications

Product Features 2-143

NAM / Traffic Analyzer v3.5 Tutorial

Product Features 2-143

NAM / Traffic Analyzer v3.5 Tutorial

Basic Historical Reports

Creating Report

Basic Historical Reports

Creating Report

Existing Reports

Historical Reports Controls

Applications

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Historical Reports

Earlier we looked at how to use the Real-Time graphs to do short term trending. Using the Historical reports

we can extend this trending capability to up to 100 days from the creation of the report. It is important to

remember that historical reports require a data source to be available for collection for the entire period of the

historical report. If a historical report is created and the data source is completely changed, the data source

for the historical report will no longer be available for collection. Similarly, if the collection options are

changed, the NAM may no longer be collecting the necessary statistics for the report.

Historical reports are generated either from the Reports tab as illustrated above, or as shown in a few pages

can be quickly created from one of the monitor reports. Let’s first look at the creation of basic historical

reports from the Reports tab.

Basic Historical Reports are created by selecting the Create button from the list of already created reports

shown by selecting Reports > Basic Reports. Notice that the list of already created reports includes a

column indicating the status of the report. Conditions other than “OK” may be due to the changing of the data

source or types of collections enabled as already discussed.

Numerous types of basic reports can be created by selecting one of the following from the first step of the

Basic Report generation dialog: Applications, Application Groups, Hosts, Conversations, VLANs, DiffServ,

Response Time, Switch Ports, Switch Health, or MPLS Statistics and clicking Next.

Note: the NM-NAM reports will not include VLANs or MPLS, and will have Interface instead of Ports and

Router Health instead of Switch health.