Creating a Report

NV4IP provides three types of reports: Real-Time, SessionLog, and History. These reports are available in both tabular and graphical format.

The Real-Time Reports tab provides tabular and graphical reports for data that has not yet been merged into the historical files. Reports are provided for response time, applications, clients, and their workload per bytes transferred and sessions. The Real-Time reports include the Enterprise Extender Expert, which displays workload and throughput data for all EE assigned ports. The Enterprise Extender Expert report also provides access to the Thru24 EE Summary/Detail reports, which provide near-time EE throughput information.

SessionLog provides reports for the FTP server activity/error logs and FTP, Telnet, and API SMF logs in near real time. The FTP SMF log displays data for completed FTPs. Information shown includes return code, data set name, data set type, local or remote user ID, and bytes transferred. The FTP Server log displays data for FTPs that are still in progress and completed FTPs. Information shown includes the commands typed in for each FTP during the progress of the session. The Telnet SMF log displays data for Telnet client or Telnet server sessions that are completed or still executing. The API SMF log displays data for socket API sessions that are completed or still executing. Data shown includes application name, foreign port, record type and bytes transferred.

From the Base History reports under Workload and Performance in the History tab, the Workload Reports collect and report information by applications, sessions, bytes sent and received, and top clients. The Base History/Usage Reports show the absolute usage per interval chosen for applications or clients. For an application the report indicates which clients (addresses) were using that application or, for a client, the report indicates which applications the client was using. Data can be viewed in different time slices: month, week, day, or hour. The Base History/Response Time Reports show the times per packet sent for the addresses that are being monitored and for the entire network. The Thru99 EE History and Thru99 Link History reports under Workload and Performance are throughput summaries for Enterprise Extender UDP data by port and UDP IP to IP/channel link data. The Expert Reports category in the History tab provides access to reports for API applications and Telnet as well as the FTP Performance Expert Reports, which provide global network views as well as detailed views of FTP activity by: address, data set, and failures. Reports are also available in the Buffer section for CSM History and VTAM Buffers. The TraceRoute section provides access to the TraceRoute History report, which shows session-based results of the TraceRte command for any defined critical resources which have exceeded their performance threshold parameters.

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