All reports
The reports listed on the Reports > All Reports page are links to predefined report templates. The templates have been predefined as far as practical and named in terms of common tasks to simplify running a report to answer a question about your network.
There are two types of reports:
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Built-in – Summaries of network activity. You specify a time frame for the report. For some reports, you also choose or specify the subject.
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Custom – Reports that support investigating the traffic volumes, dependencies, or performance of specified hosts, groups of hosts, interfaces, or applications. Network elements can be specified using the same conventions as used with the Quick Reports tool or the Reports > Traffic pages.
To run a report,
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Click the report link. This opens the applicable report page.
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Enter the information and time frame that are to be the subject of the report. (Executive Summary reports require only a time frame.) Some reports do not require any additional entries.
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At the bottom of the Report Criteria section, click Run now.
Note that some reports require the existence of certain host group types, such as the ByLocation group type. If you delete the group type and then run the report, the report fails. If you subsequently recreate the required group type, you must wait one full minute for the NetProfiler to register the new group type before running the report.
Built-in reports
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Cloud reports provide visibility into the Amazon Web Services cloud, Microsoft Azure cloud, and Google Public cloud.
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Executive Summary reports are network-wide in scope. They report traffic information or security information for the entire monitored network for the specified time frame.
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Executive Network Summary report requires the ByLocation host group to have been defined. Define this group on the Definitions > Host Groups > ByLocation page before running the Executive Network Summary report. more
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Service reports show how well a service is being delivered over your network. more
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General Information reports are designed for network administrators and other operations personnel. In addition to being accessible on the Reports > All Reports page, they can be accessed from the right-click menu on other pages. Position the cursor over an underlined host, host group, interface or application anywhere in the NetProfiler user interface and right-click it to access one of these reports.
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Performance Investigation report can be run with only partial information. However, if you include a host group in the report criteria, then that host group must have been previously defined. more
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Riverbed QoS Shaping reports provide insight into the performance of SteelHead QoS policies across the monitored network.
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Traffic reports provides insights into hosts, applications, interfaces and more.
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WAN optimization reports provide views into which applications are using the WAN, which sites (WAN interfaces) are the most active, where there are potential response time or congestion problems, and how optimization is benefiting or can benefit the network.
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VoIP reports display basic RTP metrics (Loss, MOS, Jitter).
Custom reports
The Type column identifies the tab of the traffic report page or WAN optimization report page to which the template applies. For example, Advanced means that the shortcut opens a pre-configured report on the Reports > Traffic page Advanced tab. WAN Site Optimization means that the shortcut opens a pre-configured report on the WAN Optimization page Site tab.
The Top Internet Applications report and Top Internet Destinations report require the ByInternalHosts host group to have been defined. The Application Performance Assessment report requires the ByLocation host group to have been defined.
Define these groups on the Definitions > Host Groups pages before running the reports. more
You can modify the report specifications, save your modifications as a new template, schedule the running of the template, save the reports, and have them emailed.