Users Guide

Traffic Flow Portlet | Traffic Flow Analyzer
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name or has the wrong name and you would like to change it, you can do so through this screen.
Also you can enter keywords that will help with future searches. Click Apply to save the changes
and return to the search screen.
NOTE:
The Settings button (the gear in the upper right corner) lets you confine the search by types (All,
Applications, Protocols, Autonomous Systems, Endpoints)). Note that you cannot search by exporters
through this screen. If you select one of the two items for exporters in from the entity type drop down list,
then this will show a paginated list of all exporters (by equipment manager or by subcomponent,
depending on which item was selected). If you want to search for a specific exporter by equipment
manager, then you can go to the Managed Resources portlet and use its built-in searching capability and
then use the menu item to Show Traffic as Exporter. Likewise if you want to search for a specific
exporter by subcomponent, then you can go to either the Ports or Interfaces portlet (both are different
types of subcomponents) and also use its search capability and menu item to Show Traffic for the
subcomponent entity.
Traffic Flow Snapshot
This portlet lets you display Traffic Flow you configure and save as a snapshot in a portlet visible on
any OpenManage Network Manager page. It is, in effect, a portlet that permanently displays the
Expanded Traffic Flow Portlet , beginning with the selected snapshot.
After adding this portlet to a page, use the selector to choose which snapshot you want to appear.
Refresh the portlet with the double arrows to the right of the units displayed. You can also change
what appears, the units, the time interval, and so on, just as described in
Expanded Traffic Flow
Portlet
on page 536.
Settings
You can edit the configuration options by clicking on the Settings (wrench) icon.
Several of the fields shown on this screen are for the number of days to keep each granularity of
traffic flow data. Initially, all traffic flows are associated with a specific minute and thus become 1
minute data in the database. These flows then aggregate (rollup) to larger degrees of granularity. 1
minute data aggregates to 10-minute intervals, which aggregate to hourly, which aggregate to daily,