Report instances, Output, Periods covered by reports – HP Transcend Traffix Manager User Manual

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Use top N reports to determine and report on the most active objects
on your network. Here, N is a number between 1 and 50 that you can
choose for each report.

The different types of report are detailed in

Chapter 12

.

Report Instances

You can set up reports for your specific needs. To set up a report, you add
an instance of a selected report type, specifying which objects to report
on. For example, you might set up a top N report on the top 10 devices in
Europe. You can then schedule the report to be run daily, weekly or
monthly. Alternatively, you could generate an ad hoc report when you
require one.

When a report is run, either by Traffix Manager at a scheduled time, or ad
hoc
, raw data is generated. You can output or view raw report data as
many times as you require, without having to regenerate the report.

Output

Traffix Manager uses the raw data to output professional reports as hard
copy to a printer on the server, as HTML files, or as Comma Separated
Value (CSV) files. CSV files can be read into a spreadsheet or database
application for further analysis.

See

“Setting Output Options”

on

page 95

for more detail.

Periods Covered by

Reports

There are three standard report periods: daily, weekly and monthly.

Daily Reports

These reports use all data collected on the specified day (from 00:00 to
24:00) and are generated in the early hours of the following morning.

For example, if you select Friday (

Figure 14

), the report is generated early

on Saturday morning.

Figure 14 Time Line for Daily Report Generation

00:00

12:00

24:00

Raw data
generated

Friday

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