Schedule Reports

     

    Schedule feature in NetFlow Analyzer is an easy way to generate reports in Daily, weekly and Monthly basis. A scheduler is configured to set the parameters for automating the generation of reports.

    To create an schedule navigate to reports tab   and click on Schedule.

    Netflow Analyzer calculates the bandwidth utilization on the specified Interfaces, Interface groups, IP Group, WLC Devices, Access point groups, SSID groups for every minute. Based on the schedule opted for, reports are generated at various time intervals.The Schedule Reports feature lets you Create new Schedules and Delete existing ones. The Scheduler List page lists all existing schedules , along with the Schedule details,Status, Report types,and the Last Report Generated time.

     

    Schedule Profile

    Schedule Profile show the Schedule Profiles you have created and the status of the Profiles:

     

     

    The various columns displayed in the Schedule Profile page are described in the table below:

     

    Column Description
    Profile Name The name of the Schedule when it was created. Click on the Schedule's name to see more information about the schedule's configuration
    Description Show the Description you have set for the schedule
    Schedule Details Show what type for schedule is created either Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Only Once
    Status By default all schedules are Enabled, which means they are active. Click the  icon to disable a schedule. When this is done, reports will no longer be generated for that configuration. Click the icon  to enable the schedule again.
    Last Report Time This column lists the last time when this schedule was run and a report created.
    Generated Reports By clicking on View Reports it is possible to view all the previous reports that have been generated. The number of reports that are stored is based on the user definition in the Schedule Setting page. (By enabling the item "Enable older reports to be accessed from UI" it is possible to retrieve even older reports.) For Daily Schedule up to 90 reports can be stored. For Weekly Schedule up to 104 reports can be stored. For Monthly Schedule up to 60 reports can be stored.
    Edit Click on this icon  to edit the created schedule.
    Delete Click on this icon  to delete the schedule

     

     

    Add Schedule

    Add Schedule button on the right top to create an Schedule. Please give the blow parameter to Add the schedule:

     

    Parameters Description
    Schedule Name Provide an appropriate name to Schedule profile
    Description Provide description of the profile to identify the purpose of the schedule created
    Device Type

    You can schedule reports for an Interfaces, Interface group, IP Group, WLC Devices, Access point groups, or SSID group. 

     

    Select the option based on you requirement.

     

    Interface option allow you to select Interface for which you need the reports to be scheduled.

     

    IP groups and Interface Groups will allow you to select the created IP and Interface groups for which you need to schedule the reports.

     

    Access point groups and SSID Groups will allow you to select the created Access point and SSID  groups for which you need to schedule the reports.

     

    WLC devices option allow you to select WLC devices for which you need the reports to be scheduled.

     

     
    Report Type

    The type of report to be generated - Please select as per your requirement from the dropdown consisting the following:

    • Consolidated report
    • Traffic report  -> Contains the traffic graph with Total Volume, Min, Max, Avg, Standard Deviation and 95th                              Percentile details and detailed list data points for the report period.
    • Application report -> Contains list of Application with volume of traffic utilized and percentage of total traffic                                     utilized by each application.
    • Source report -> Contains list of Source IP with volume of traffic utilized and percentage of total traffic                                       utilized by each source IP.
    • Source network report -> Contains list of Source network with volume of traffic utilized and                                                                      percentage of total traffic utilized by each source network.
    • Destination report  -> Contains list of Destination IP with volume of traffic utilized and percentage of total                                          traffic utilized by each destination IP. 
    • Destination network report -> Contains list of Destination network with volume of traffic utilized and                                                               percentage of total traffic utilized by each detination network. 
    • QoS report -> Contains list of DSCP with volume of traffic utilized and percentage of total traffic utilized by                          each DSCP
    • Conversation report -> Contains Detailed list of conversation.
    • Conversation network report -> Contains Detailed list of conversation based on source and destination                                                            network.
    • NBAR report -> Contains list of NBAR Application with volume of traffic utilized and percentage of total                                   traffic utilized by each NBAR app.
    • CBQoS report -> Contains the CBQOS report based on IN out OUT policy collected for the Interface
    • Compare report -> Allows you to create an schedule compare report for Interfaces, IP Groups, Interface Groups, WLC Devices, Access Point Groups, or SSID Groups selected. Provide the required details for the  report to be scheduled.                                                      
    • Custom Report -> Allows you to set the criteria for the report generated in the schedule. You can provide                                   below criteria to generate the reports:                                                                                                               Source Address                                                                                                                                                 Source Network                                                                                                                                                 Source Node                                                                                                                                                       Destination Address                                                                                                                                           Destination Network                                                                                                                                           Destination Node                                                                                                                                               Application                                                                                                                                                         Port                                                                                                                                                                     Port Range                                                                                                                                                         DSCP                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
    • Capacity Planning Reports -> Generates the Capacity Planning reports for the selected Interfaces, Interface group, IP Group, WLC Devices, Access point groups, or SSID group.
    • Medianet Reports  -> Generates the Medianet reports collected for the Interface.

     
    Report Format You can select the format as PDF or CSV with which the reports will be exported to your email address 
    Time Zone You can Select the Time Zone based for the reports to be generated. This will help operation to get reports who are in different geographic locations.
    Report Days Select the report generation frequency as one from : Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Only Once. Depending on this the report will be generated at the appropriate time intervals.
    Report Date You can select the Date for which you need the report to be generated. This option is only available for the Only Once option only
    Report Time  Select the time period at which the reports has to be generated based on the schedule days you have selected
    Report Period

    You can select the Period for which for which the data should refelect in the Report to be genereted

     

    For Only Once Option you can select the Report Period to be Previous Day, Last 24 hours, Today, Last 6 hours, Last Hour, Previous Week, Last 7 days, Previous Month, Last 30 days, Last Quarter and Custom. Custom Select allows you to sepcify the From and To time period for which you need the report.

     

    For Daily, weekly and Monthly reports you can select the time period to be Previous Day, Last 24 hours, Last 6 Hours, Last Hour, 

     
    Mail Notification

    You Can Select the Mail Notification to be ON or OFF.

     

    If you select ON you will receive the reports generated in the schedule to the email address you will specify.

     

    • Mail Address - This is the address to which the generated reports will be sent. You can specify multiple email addess for the reports to be sent to by providing email address seperated by comma without space    eg: abc@example.com,abcd@example.com,abcde@example.com  
    • Mail Subject - The email subject can be customized according to the report selected.

     

     

     

     

    Schedule Settings

    This link lets you set parameters that could be applied across all the generated reports. The parameters include:

    • Host Name display in reports - This determines how the host name is displayed in reports. It could be chosen as one of

    o IP Address ( or )
    o DNS Name

     

    • Graph Options (Report Type to be shown in reports) - This determines how the data is to be shown in the generated reports. This could be one of

    o Utilization (in %) ( or )
    o Speed (in bps)

     

    • Mail Attachment option - The format in which the attachments are to be mailed. It could be one of

    o Zipped file ( or )
    o PDF - The number of PDF files to be sent in a mail is to be specified. The number may range from 5 to 50 in increments of five

     

    • Qos Options - This determines what the QOS report contains. This could be choosen from one of below:

    o DSCP ( or )
    o TOS

     

    • Enable older reports to be accessed from UI