To wrap up this set of videos regarding 40 analyzer and reports, I'd like to
propose this scenario.
And here it is.
An executive has asked to see weekly reports for high bandwidth usage.
Now, what exactly is high?
We may need some additional context for that.
Like is it over a certain threshold or is just the top, you know, you know,
sites are being used as far as bandwidth.
So we'd want to get some clarification on that.
But what they want is that report weekly regarding high bandwidth usage
including the categories and websites visited. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
including the categories and websites visited.
So my question isn't like, you know, exactly which reporter we're going to use
or what we're going to create.
My question is what approach should we use to make this happen for the exec?
So all I can do is go ahead and pause the video now, give that some thought.
And then when you have an idea of how we would approach that or some ideas how
to approach it, click on and resume.
And we'll take a look at this approach together.
So to give the executive what they want, if they want to see, you know, for
example, high bandwidth usage including the categories and websites visited, WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
example, high bandwidth usage including the categories and websites visited,
the first thing I would recommend us doing is not trying to create custom
reports.
And not trying to create custom data sets and not trying to create custom
charts, but rather look for a report that is very close to what the executive
is asking for.
So the first thing would be to go ahead and look for existing report or get one
that's very close to that.
And then we can clone it and tweak it.
And then secondly, we could go ahead and schedule it.
And then once we schedule it, we could also then take the next step of having WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
And then once we schedule it, we could also then take the next step of having
an email or place it on a server in the same location so that the executive
could get to it very easily.
We'd also want to be aware that if there's sensitive information included in
the reports, we'd also want to be very careful on the distribution of that
report.
For example, we wouldn't want a competing company, for example, to get a report
of, you know, things that are happening in our environment that may be problems
or issues.
We'd want to keep that fairly private.
So following this approach, looking for a report that may work for us and
scheduling it, let's go back to the 40 analyzer and see if we can get a very WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
scheduling it, let's go back to the 40 analyzer and see if we can get a very
close match.
All right, so back at the 40 analyzer on the left hand side, we'll go to
reports and report definitions.
And let's see, they want high bandwidth usage. Let's just do a search for the
word, hi, press enter.
There we go. That looks like a good start.
So high bandwidth application usage report, we can double click on that. In
fact, let's just clone it and we can tweak it.
So we'll right click on that report. We'll do a clone.
And let's go ahead and call it our exact high bandwidth. No click on OK. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
And let's go ahead and call it our exact high bandwidth. No click on OK.
And then we can further edit it if we need to.
All right, so they're asking for, he wants a weekly report.
So the previous seven days sounds great. And for the time zone, I'm in the
Pacific time zone.
So that's what we'll base the report on as well. And then for devices, I'm
going to include all 40 gate devices.
So I can either specify and click on select. They're all selected or I can say
all devices, either way is great.
And then we can go ahead and schedule it. So if he wants it weekly, we can
click right here on an able schedule and we'll do it once a week starting and WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
click right here on an able schedule and we'll do it once a week starting and
let's go ahead and start it.
How about tomorrow at midnight? And because we scheduled it, it automatically
did the auto cash for us.
We can also set up an email server and then also, you know, deliver it.
If we enable notification here and we can deliver it to the executive, you know
, whenever that report runs.
So because I don't have an email server set up, I'll go ahead and leave that
off.
And now that we've saved it, if we wanted to tweak it here, we could also click
on editor.
And here we can say, for example, summary for our exact.
And then scrolling down is going to have these charts that are included and the WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
And then scrolling down is going to have these charts that are included and the
text here and the font and so forth.
So we'll click on apply and then we just let it go ahead and run.
So here's our report right here currently is filtered with the word hi there
and we'll right click on it and we'll just run it immediately right now by
clicking on run report.
And that's in the process of running. So we can also double click here and it's
now showing us for the last seven days where that report has been run.
So we just generated it. So it takes us a few moments here to go ahead and have
that report created for us by 40 analyzer.
So it'll show up right here in just a moment, unless I ran the wrong report. So WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
So it'll show up right here in just a moment, unless I ran the wrong report. So
let's go to other it is.
I almost gave up on it. So there is right there. And once the format column
here populates, we can click on the option, which we'll see, for example, HTML
or PDF and take a look at that report.
And that report is taking a while now because we had the caching enabled, it
may not have had an opportunity yet to build that cache.
So for subsequent runs of that report, it should be much, much faster. In fact,
we'll test that here in a moment.
So this one is still not ready yet. So once it's done, we could look at the WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
So this one is still not ready yet. So once it's done, we could look at the
diagnostics and identify how much stress or pressure the 40 analyzer was under.
But again, the second time we run it, it should be much, much faster because
most of that information is already going to be cached.
In fact, while that's running, let's go ahead back to the dashboard and status.
And it doesn't look too stressed here.
So here on the log received monitor, that doesn't look too stressed. If we
scroll down, here's disk I O, here's the information that came into the 40
analyzer.
And as it's inserting into the database, that looks okay. So if we go back to WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
And as it's inserting into the database, that looks okay. So if we go back to
reports and generated reports, that one is still not ready yet.
And that report has been a few minutes. It is not coming up. I'm going to go
ahead and run the report one more time.
Maybe he's had a fluke with that one. Let me go back to report definitions.
Scroll down. There's our exact high bandwidth report. Let me just take a look
at the details.
Go to settings. It's supposed to run weekly. The caching is enabled. So I won't
make any changes there.
It's going to return. Let's right click and run the report one more time. So
click on run report. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
click on run report.
It says it's running. We'll go back to generated reports. So this is the one
previously and we should have a new printing report coming up as well here in a
moment.
And there's the second one right there. So hopefully here in a moment, ah,
fantastic. So that other one, why did it take so long?
Let's right click on it. And from the drop down, click on retrieve diagnostic.
I'll save that to my downloads folder.
Let me open that up in a text editor and let's take a look. That's 39 charts.
AutoCached is enabled as far as the system status.
It didn't look like the CPU is too stressed or memory. We had plenty of disk WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
It didn't look like the CPU is too stressed or memory. We had plenty of disk
space.
On here, it looks like it was building the cache for two log tables. And that's
because I just created the report.
It hadn't had time yet to go ahead and build those caches. Maybe the caches
weren't all ready to go.
And that's why this one kind of had a problem. But this one, which is the
second one we ran, it ran pretty quickly.
So does it test? I'm going to take this one that never completed, right click
on it and say I want to delete it.
Click on OK. And now that everything should be cached, let me run that same
report again.
So go back to report definitions. We'll go to our exact high bandwidth report, WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
So go back to report definitions. We'll go to our exact high bandwidth report,
right click on it, click on run, and then we'll go back to reports.
And here it is. And if the caches are all populated, that should be done a lot
faster and it is.
All right. So it's just a matter of the initial cache is being populated. And
that second one ran very, very quickly.
Click on the HTML here that'll open up a new tab. And here is our summary for
our exec, including 54 applications, six categories, 1.19 gig total bytes.
So here's one of our charts here with the application categories by bandwidth.
So updates, 277 megabytes. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
So updates, 277 megabytes.
And that's because a few minutes ago, I just did some updates and lots of web
browsers on a few of my clients to generate some traffic.
So if we scroll down, looks like there wasn't a lot of harmful apps like point
to point applications or file sharing applications.
If we scroll down here, here's another chart for video and audio applications,
which includes mostly, it looks like Netflix traffic, but continue to scroll
down.
Here's the top 10 video slash audio users by session. And then here's a another
chart in a table form here at the bottom showing that most of the traffic was WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
chart in a table form here at the bottom showing that most of the traffic was
Netflix.
So back at our scenario, it'd be wise to find a report that's already similar
to what we need and just tweak it as needed, as opposed to creating our own
custom data sets or custom charts or custom templates.
Because very likely, we're going to have some reports out of the hundreds that
are available that will serve our needs.
And again, if we need a little tweaking, we can simply clone one of those
reports, tweak it as needed, and then schedule it to run whenever we need it.
So thanks for joining me in this set of videos regarding 40 Analyzer and
reports, and I look forward to seeing you, my friend, in another set of videos WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
reports, and I look forward to seeing you, my friend, in another set of videos
very, very soon.
Until then, I hope this has been informative, and I'd like to thank you for
viewing.