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Access: WAE Live > Analytics, click New Report
Access: WAE Live > Explore, select objects, and click Run Report
This chapter describes the following.
– Grouping Objects describes the options for grouping objects in the report results.
– Time Aggregation describes this feature, which is available in Traffic and Ad Hoc reports.
– Naming Reports and Applying Filters and Sorting Named Reports are applicable to reports that you want to schedule or email.
To configure reports for a specific network, select it from the Network list (top left). If there is only one network configured, the word “default” appears.
The Analytics pages enable you to generate traffic, health, ad hoc, and deviation reports. These report tools give you a series of options, such as the following, that enable you to customize the reports.
You can specify filters from the drop-down lists, or you can base them on selections in the Explore tables, as follows.
– Select the property from the Latest Value list, and then refine it using the second list. This enables you to run the report on all objects based on the selected property or on all objects matching the refined property value.
– Select the properties of only those objects that are currently selected in the associated Explore page. For instance, if you have three LSPs selected in an Explore page, the filter defaults to those three selected LSPs.
Optionally, you can click the Edit link to change these selections, which takes you to the Explore page. For more information, see the Explore chapter.
Note If you select specific interface types from the Explore Interfaces page for use in a report, then the report is only on those interfaces of those selected types. If you select Interfaces as the Object from a Configure Report page, then the report is run on all interfaces regardless of their type.
– Select the range from hours to years and enter a value, for example, 1 month. This option captures a range from the current time backwards.
– Select a custom date range. You can enter the range in yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss format, or you can select dates from both calendars.
The traffic and ad hoc reports support the ability to group (or aggregate) a set of objects and sum their property values. In the resulting report table, each row represents a group of objects. The columns represent the aggregated values for each group.
Example: Figure 7-1 shows a report generated three times: one without grouping objects, one with objects grouped by nodes, and one grouping first by nodes and then by metric. Notice that both the Capacity and the Latest Traffic Out (P95) columns adjust according to whether and how the objects are grouped.
Figure 7-1 Example Effects of Grouping Objects
The traffic and ad hoc reports support time aggregation features that aggregate multiple property values into a single value for a given time range. For instance, you can aggregate maximum raw data values for traffic on a weekly basis.
Time aggregation options vary depending on the report and property type. They include P95, average, maximum, minimum, last, and count. (P95 is the value 95% of the time.)
Time aggregation operations are applied to raw data. For a description of raw data, see the Objects, Properties, and Data chapter. For more information and examples of aggregating data in the reports, see the Traffic Reports and Ad Hoc Reports chapters.
You can run a report from any of the following locations.
– From either the Analytics > Reports page or Analytics > Report Logs page, click the New Report button.
– From the Explore page, select objects and click the Run Report button.
– From the Analytics > Reports page, click View > Run, which runs immediately with the same parameters. To keep or change the parameters, click View > Run or click the name in the Report Name cell.
– From the Analytics > Report Log page, to keep or change the parameters, click View > Edit or click the name in the Report Name cell.
Note If you need to email the report, you must give the report a unique name when you run it (see the Naming Reports section).
To run the report with a saved name, click the Save & Run button after configuring the report. By giving the report a name, you automatically add it to the Analytics Reports page where you can easily identify and schedule it for future use.
To run the report without giving it a name, click the Run button after configuring the report. If you do not save the report with a name, it is given a default name with the format Report Type-Object Type-Definition ID. Reports that use a default name appear only on the Analytics Report Log page.
To change the name of an existing report, there are two options.
You can apply filters and sorting to a named report so that it displays according to these filters and sorting each time you open or run the report. Thereafter, you can schedule email alerts to be sent when these conditions are met using the Reports page.
These saved report parameters do not affect the generation of the report. Rather they affect what is displayed in the output (based on the filters that were applied), how the information is displayed (based on how the columns were sorted), and if scheduled appropriately, whether the report is sent via email.
Step 1 Run and name the report. See the Naming Reports section.
Step 2 On the report output page, apply filters and/or sorting.
Step 3 Save the filters and sorting by clicking the Save icon.
The output of all reports is in a table format that can be exported, and most reports enable you to graph the resulting data. For information on how to use tables and graphs, see the Tables and Filters and Graphs chapters, respectively.
You can view reports from two primary locations, both accessed from Analytics.
From a report’s output page, to select any of the following options, click the gear tool.
– Traffic Reports chapter
– Health Reports chapter
– Deviation Reports chapter
– Ad Hoc Reports chapter
– Reports chapter
– Report Log chapter