Viewing Reports : Viewing Traffic Summary Reports
  
Viewing Traffic Summary Reports
The Traffic Summary report provides a percentage breakdown of the amount of traffic going through the system by the port and type of traffic.
The SCC automatically discovers all the ports in the system that have traffic. The discovered port along with a label (if one exists) is added to the report. If a label does not exist, then an unknown label is added to the discovered port.
If you want to change the unknown label to a name representing the port, you must add the port with a new label. All statistics for this new port label are preserved from the time the port was discovered.
The Traffic Summary report displays a maximum of 16 colors for ports. If you have more than 16 ports, the colors in the report wrap from the beginning.
The Traffic Summary report provides this table of statistics that describe data activity for the application and the time period you specify.
Column
Description
Port
Displays the TCP/IP port number and application for each row of statistics.
Reduction
Displays the amount of data reduction.
LAN Data
Displays the amount of traffic through the LAN.
WAN Data
Displays the amount of traffic on the WAN.
Traffic %
Displays the percentage of the total traffic each port represents.
What This Report Tells You
The Traffic Summary report answers these questions:
•  How much data reduction has occurred?
•  What was the percentage of the total traffic for each port?
About Report Data
The Riverbed reporting functionality polls bandwidth and connection metrics every 15 seconds and reports on performance for periods up to one month. Every 15-second sample is used for calculating its average and peak value. However, due to performance and disk space considerations, data representation in reports for periods longer than the latest five minutes are interpolated between data points obtained by aggregating more than one 15-second sample. The display granularity decreases with time passed since data was sampled.
To view the Traffic Summary report
1. Choose Reports > Optimization: Traffic Summary to display the Traffic Summary page.
Figure: Traffic Summary Report
2. Use the controls to customize the report as described in this table.
Control
Description
Time Interval
Select a report time interval of 1 hour (1h), 1 day (1d), 1 week (1w), 30 days (30d), yesterday, last week, or last month.
Time intervals that do not apply to a particular report are dimmed.
For a custom time interval, enter the start time and end time using the format YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS.
Because the system aggregates data on the hour, request hourly time intervals. For example, setting a time interval to 08:30:00 to 09:30:00 from 2 days ago does not create a data display, whereas setting a time interval to 08:00:00 to 09:00:00 from 2 days ago will display data.
When you request a custom time interval to view data beyond the aggregated granularity, the data is not visible because the system is no longer storing the data. For example, the following custom time intervals do not return data because the system automatically aggregates data older than 7 days into 2-hour data points:
•  Setting a 1-hour time period that occurred 2 weeks ago.
•  Setting a 75-minute time period that occurred more than 1 week ago.
You can quickly see the newest data and see data points as they are added to the chart dynamically. To display the newest data, click Show newest data.
Type
Select a type (Optimized, Pass Through, Both) from the drop-down list.
Traffic
Select a traffic direction (Bi-Directional, WAN to LAN, or LAN to WAN) from the drop-down list.
Group
Select the group from the drop-down list.
Note: For detailed information about exporting statistics, see Exporting Statistics.