About report user-defined settings
You can change report default settings to match your preferred style. When you customize any report-specific settings, the system immediately writes them to disk on the SCC. The system saves all of your custom settings, even after you log out, clear your browsing history, or close the browser. When you view the report again, your custom settings are intact.
The system saves report settings on a per-user basis. A message appears at the top of each page when multiple users are logged in, explaining that user preferences can be overwritten.
The system also saves the chart window. Whenever you change the chart window, the next time you view any report, the chart window is set to the last chart window used.
About data grouping
The data grouping approach is used to plot graphs for report pages to increase the readability when there are too many data points.
Data grouping replaces a sequence of data points in a series with one grouped point. The values of each grouped point are calculated from the original values of every point used using the aggregation options, such as average, sum, or high (max). Therefore, when you mouse over a graph on a report page, the data within the box is aggregated or grouped data for a certain period (or interval). As the zoom-level changes, the duration (or granularity) of the period (or interval) changes too.
The high-charts reports are configured to group samples to these granularities:
• Minute granularities: 5, 10, 15, 30
• Hour granularities: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12
• Day granularities: 1
For high-charts select the appropriate granularity and group data based on the zoom-level.
When high-stock data grouping is active, the time displayed on a data point, when you move the mouse over, is start-time of the time range being grouped.
The data that the SCC collects at each hour is the data for the past hour where the values are for that period of time.
Grouping and approximation
The grouping depends in the data that’s plotted. The three groupings are: average, sum, and high (max).
Most of the graphs use average as their grouping function. These reports use other than average:
• Bandwidth Optimization report graph uses sum. The data reduction graph uses average. The two throughput series uses sum.
• Optimized Throughput report graph uses average. The two average series use average and the four peak series use high.
• Connection History report graph uses max. The half-open and half-closed percentage graph uses average.
• Connection Pooling report graph uses sum.
• SnapMirror report the peak series graph uses high. The LAN and WAN throughput series uses average.
• SRDF report graph the two peak series uses high. The throughput series uses average.
Viewing data for a specific time
Mouse over the plot area. A tool tip displays the time stamp and the value of each data series at that time. The plot area colors the series names appropriately, and the data values have their associated units.
The plot area also displays subtle shading to denote work hours (white background) and nonwork hours (gray background). RiOS defines work hours as 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM on weekdays. You can’t configure the work hours.
Zooming in on the plot area
Place the mouse pointer over the plot area, and then click and hold the left mouse button. Move the mouse left or right and release the left mouse button to zoom in.
The plot area reflects the changing chart window, as do the associated controls in the control panel.
Showing and hiding individual data series
To hide a data series, clear the check box next to the data series name in the control panel.
To show a data series, select the check box next to the data series name in the control panel.
You can’t toggle the visibility of all the series, because it doesn’t always make sense to hide a series (for example, if there is only one data series in the chart). For these series, a white check box doesn’t appear next to the series name. You can hide the LAN Throughput and WAN Throughput series, but you can’t hide the Data Reduction series.