User Guide:Netmon Reports
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To access the Netmon Reports console, click the Reports button in the top toolbar. Netmon ships with selection of built-in reports, which can be customized and saved depending on your needs.
Creating and Saving Custom Reports
You can save any of Netmon's core reports as a custom report, for later retrieval. To save a report, simply provide a friendly Report Name in the text box which appears at the top of the Report Builder panel. Then, click the Save button to save the parameters you have entered.
When saving a report, Netmon retains all of the information you enter, except for custom date/time ranges.
Network Activity Report
The Network Activity Report allows you to query Netmon's network traffic database for any type of activity, for any host.
To run a Network Activity Report, simply click the Network Activity Report icon in the Netmon Report Explorer, and take the following steps:
1. Choose a source interface from the available drop-down box. You can select Netmon's built-in Local Packet Analyzer, or any NetFlow-enabled interface.
2. Choose a host (or group of hosts) to include in your query, and make the selection in the Hosts: selection boxes. You can run a Network Activity report against All Hosts in the database, or you can narrow your search by applying a host filter or specifying an individual host to scan. You can even look for hosts which have a specific text pattern in their names.
3. Choose a reporting period. Available choices are Today, Yesterday, Last 7 Days and Custom. If you choose Custom, you will need to enter a valid date and time range.
4. Choose the type of TCP/IP traffic to scan. You can scan for All Activity, or you can narrow your search by applying a traffic filter, or specifying an individual protocol/port combination.
5. Finally, you can limit your result set and choose the ordering of the information with the Limit Results To: and Order Results By: selection boxes.
6. Click the Generate Report button.
Panel Actions
Print an instant printer-friendly report by clicking this button in the Network Activity Report window.
Conversation Report
The Conversation Report allows you to examine network activity between two hosts, or two groups of hosts.
To run a Conversation Report, simply click the Conversation Report icon in the Netmon Report Explorer, and take the following steps:
1. Choose a source host (or group of hosts) to include in your query, and make the selection in the Source Host(s): selection boxes . You can run a Conversation Report against All Hosts in the database, or you can narrow your search by applying a host filter or specifying an individual source host.
2. Choose a destination host (or group of hosts) to include in your query, and make the selection in the Destination Host(s): selection boxes . You can run a Conversation report against All Hosts in the database, or you can narrow your search by applying a host filter or specifying an individual destination host to scan.
3. Choose a reporting period. Available choices are Today, Yesterday, Last 7 Days and Custom. If you choose Custom, you will need to enter a valid date and time range.
4. Choose the type of TCP/IP traffic to scan. You can scan for All Activity, or you can narrow your search by applying a traffic filter, or specifying an individual protocol/port combination.
5. Finally, you can limit your result set and choose the ordering of the information with the Limit Results To: and Order Results By: selection boxes.
6. Click the Generate Report button.
Panel Actions
Print an instant printer-friendly report by clicking this button in the Conversation Report window.
Web Traffic Report
The Web Traffic Report allows you to query Netmon's HTTP Request Plugin, which keeps track of URLs which have been requested from your network.
To run a Web Traffic Report, simply click the Web Traffic Report icon in the Netmon Report Explorer, and take the following steps:
1. Choose a host (or group of hosts) to include in your query, and make the selection in the Hosts: selection boxes. You can run a Web Traffic report against All Hosts in the database, or you can narrow your search by applying a host filter or specifying an individual host to scan.
2. Choose a reporting period. Available choices are Today, Yesterday, Last 7 Days and Custom. If you choose Custom, you will need to enter a valid date and time range.
3. Enter a keyword or partial text string to narrow your search, if desired. This field is optional.
4. Click the Generate Report button.
Panel Actions
Print an instant printer-friendly report by clicking this button in the Web Traffic Report window.
UP / DOWN Time Report
This report provides a summary of the availability of each of your monitored services and disks, for the time interval specified.
To run an UP/DOWN Time Report, simply click the UP/DOWN Time Report icon in the Netmon Report Explorer, and take the following steps:
1. Choose a reporting period. Available choices are Today, Yesterday, Last 7 Days and Custom. If you choose Custom, you will need to enter a valid date and time range.
2. Click the Generate Report button.
Panel Actions
Print an instant printer-friendly report by clicking this button in the UP/DOWN Report window.
Bandwidth Activity Report
A Bandwidth Activity Report plots bandwidth utilization for SNMP device interfaces (such as those found on routers, firewalls, switches and servers) for a given time interval.
Note You can only run a Bandwidth Activity Report if you have enabled historical logging for an interface.
To run a Bandwidth Activity Report, simply click the Bandwidth Activity Report icon in the Netmon Report Explorer, and take the following steps:
1. Choose a device from the SNMP Device drop-down menu.
2. Choose an interface for the selected device from the Interface drop-down menu.
3. Choose a reporting period. Available choices are Today, Yesterday, Last 7 Days and Custom. If you choose Custom, you will need to enter a valid date and time range.
4. Click the Generate Report button.
Panel Actions
Print an instant printer-friendly report by clicking this button in the Bandwidth Activity Report window.
Bandwidth Consumption Report
The Bandwidth Consumption Report allows you to measure total network activity for particular subnet(s) or IP range(s). This report is useful to identify the largest bandwidth consumers (and providers) on a particular monitored network. Before you run a Bandwidth Consumption Report, familiarize yourself with the following report parameters:
Source Network(s) This is the subnet or IP range you wish to measure. Every IP address in the selected range will be accounted for in the resulting report (assuming there is network activity for that address).
Network(s) to Exclude Any activity between the source network(s) and the network(s) specified here is excluded from the reporting result. This feature is useful, for example, if you want to measure Internet-bound bandwidth for a subnet, while filtering out any local activities (i.e. activity which is switched internally, inside the network border). Or, you may wish to filter out traffic which is destined to a particular branch office.
Traffic Filter You can use traffic filters to limit the report result to a specific protocol or group of protocols by making a selection here. The default selection includes all network activity, regardless of protocol.
Order Results By You choose to produce a report for each individual IP address selected as Source Network(s), or you can produce a report which summarizes the data for each network subnet/range.
Running a Bandwidth Consumption Report
To run a Bandwidth Consumption Report, click the Bandwidth Consumption Report icon in the Netmon Report Explorer, and take the following steps:
1. Choose Source Network(s) from the available drop-down selection.
2. Choose Network(s) to Exclude from the available drop-down selection.
3. Select a reporting period. You can choose from any one of several pre-defined values, or specify a custom time interval by choosing the Custom option.
4. Choose a Traffic Filter, if desired, to limit the protocols which are included in the reporting results.
5. Click the Generate Report button.
Panel Actions
Print an instant printer-friendly report by clicking this button in the Bandwidth Consumption Report window.
Disk Activity Report
The Disk Activity Report allows you to plot disk utilization over a specified time interval.
To run a Disk Activity Report, simply click the Disk Activity Report icon in the Netmon Report Explorer, and take the following steps:
1. Choose a disk, share or partition to include in your query, and make the selection in the Disk/Share/Partition selection box.
2. Choose a reporting period. Available choices are Today, Yesterday, Last 7 Days and Custom. If you choose Custom, you will need to enter a valid date and time range.
3. Click the Generate Report button.
Panel Actions
Print an instant printer-friendly report by clicking this button in the Disk Activity Report window.
Latency Report
The Latency Report analyzes all of the TCP Service Trackers, PING Service Trackers and Disks which have been configured in the Netmon Trackers console, and provides an average latency (in milliseconds) for each service, for the time interval specified.
Please note that in order to run a Latency Report for a specific device/service, you first need to enable full historical logging for that device/service. By default, Netmon does not keep historical data for devices or services, for performance reasons.
To run a Latency Report, simply click the Latency Report icon in the Netmon Report Explorer, and take the following steps:
1. Choose a reporting period. Available choices are Today, Yesterday, Last 7 Days and Custom. If you choose Custom, you will need to enter a valid date and time range.
2. Click the Generate Report button.
Panel Actions
Print an instant printer-friendly report by clicking this button in the Latency Report window.
OID Tracker Report
An OID Tracker Report allows you to examine historical values for any SNMP management object (OID) through Netmon's OID Tracker Service. Though this is a very simple report, it is extremely flexible and useful for a variety of tasks.
Note: In order to run a report for any OID Tracker, you must first ensure that the Enable Logging selection has been checked in the OID Tracker Manager.
To run an OID Tracker Report, take the following steps:
1. Choose OID Tracker Report from the Netmon Report Explorer.
2. Select a Device from the available list. (If no Devices are visible, see Note above)
3. Choose an OID Tracker from the available list.
4. Choose a reporting period. Available choices are Today, Yesterday, Last 7 Days and Custom. If you choose Custom, you will need to enter a valid date and time range.
5. If desired, check the Delta Report option by clicking the checkbox. When this option is checked, Netmon plots the rate of change of the management object over the desired time interval, as opposed to absolute values.
6. Click the Generate Report button.
Panel Actions
Print an instant printer-friendly report by clicking this button in the OID Tracker Report window.
URL Tracker Report
A URL Tracker Report allows you to evaluate the performance of websites and web applications. You can monitor the performance (latency) of URL request delivery, as well as accuracy (expected results returned) through the same report.
Note: In order to run a report for any URL Tracker, you must first ensure that the Enable Logging selection has been checked in the URL Tracker Manager.
To run a URL Tracker Report, take the following steps:
1. Choose URL Tracker Report from the Netmon Report Explorer.
2. Select a URL from the available list. (If no URLs are visible, see Note above)
3. Choose a reporting period. Available choices are Today, Yesterday, Last 7 Days and Custom. If you choose Custom, you will need to enter a valid date and time range.
4. Click the Generate Report button.
Panel Actions
Print an instant printer-friendly report by clicking this button in the URL Tracker Report window.
Port Scan Report
A Port Scan Report summarized the results of Netmon's background port scanning service, which probes hosts on your various network range(s) for open ports.
Netmon scans each host on your network range(s) every 2 hours, and records the results of its scan to the database. A port scan report shows all scanned hosts, along with the open ports for each host.
To get more detail on a particular port/protocol, just click on it.
Configuring Network Service Alerts
Netmon can notify you when it detects a new network service (i.e. open port) that was not identified on a previous scan. To configure alerting options for this service, click the Configure Alerts button at the top of the Port Scan Report output window.
Panel Actions
Print an instant printer-friendly report by clicking this button in the Port Scan Report window.
Alert History Report
The Alert History Report displays a list of all email and pager alerts which have been generated across the entire Netmon system for the specified period of time.
To run an Alert History Report, simply click the Alert History Report link in the Netmon Report Explorer, and take the following steps:
1. Choose a reporting period. Available choices are Today, Yesterday, Last 7 Days and Custom. If you choose Custom, you will need to enter a date and time range.
2. Click the Generate Report button.
Panel Actions
Print an instant printer-friendly report by clicking this button in the Alert History Report window.
Netmon Login Report
The Netmon Login Report displays a list of all Netmon login activity for the specified period of time.
To run a Netmon Login Report, simply click the Netmon Login Report icon in the Netmon Report Explorer, and take the following steps:
1. Choose a reporting period. Available choices are Today, Yesterday, Last 7 Days and Custom. If you choose Custom, you will need to enter a valid date and time range.
2. Click the Generate Report button.
Panel Actions
Print an instant printer-friendly report by clicking this button in the Netmon Login Report window.
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