Owners Manual

Traffic Flow Portlet | Traffic Flow Analyzer
540 OMNM 6.5.2 User Guide
Drill Down
you can “drill down” into a report by clicking on one of the links in the table. This displays a detail
view of the selected entity and the name of the entity appears in the navigation bar.
When a detail view appears, the entity type appears as in the title bar. You can change to a “Top/
Bottom n” report of a different type, then click refresh to display a report of the top entities that
apply to the current detailed entity. Each time you click into the detail view for an entity, this adds
the entity to the context, so that the report is generated by applying all of the filters that have been
added to the context.
When you add an entity to the context, there will be fewer entity types available in the drop down
list. For example, if you start from Exporters by Equipment Manager and then click on the name of
an equipment manager in the list, this will then add this entity to the context. If you then change
the entity type to Exporters by Subcomponent, then only the subcomponents within this
equipment manager that are also flow exporters will be shown. Keep in mind that you might have
to change the flow direction option to "Both Ingress and Egress" for all possible subcomponents to
show in this view. You could then change the entity type to another available option such as
Applications, Protocols, etc. for a more detailed look at what flows are going through the selected
exporter. Another way of drilling down is to start with something other than an exporter, such as
Senders, Receivers, etc. and clicking into the detail view for a specific entity that is shown in that
view. There are many permutations of drilling down into different entity types that will work to
show exactly what you are interested in. This process can continue until the Conversation Detail
view is reached. This is the end of the line for drilling down.
You can return to the Home context (in which no entity is selected and all data is available and no
"drill down" options have been added to the list) at any point by clicking the house icon to in the
upper left, to the left side of the "drill down" list.