Outgoing Interface Utilization
This Flow Monitor workspace report displays a graph of the outgoing utilization on selected interface for the chosen time period.
Outbound interface utilization is graphed by percentage over time.
: If you experience an unusually low interface utilization, this could be because you have Flow Monitor collecting on a router which is not the network bottleneck. Changing the interface speed on the Flow Sources dialog will give a more accurate reading of its utilization.
: sFlow data is sent every x number of packets (configurable on the sFlow device), whereas typically all NetFlow data is collected and monitored. This means that sFlow data provides a sampling of network traffic data, whereas Flow data provides all network traffic data.
sFlow data sampling methods may result in Interface Overview and Interface Detail reports that appear to have more or less traffic than is shown in the Flow Monitor Home page source information. This is because the sampled data shown in the Interface Overview and Interface Detail reports are derived the sampled data and the Flow Monitor Home page source information is derived from the total interface traffic data.
: If you use the Report Zoom tool buttons at the top of this workspace report, each workspace report in the Interface Overview report changes date.
For more information
Linking to Flow Monitor Interface Overview report from WhatsUp Gold
Click the interface name at the top of this workspace report to view the Flow Monitor Interface Overview report for the selected interface.
Configuring this workspace report in Flow Monitor
- In the title bar of the workspace report pane, click the configure icon . The Configure Flow Report dialog appears.
- Enter or select the appropriate information in the following fields.
- Click to save changes.
Configuring this workspace report in WhatsUp Gold
- Enter or select the appropriate information in the following fields.
- . Enter a title for the workspace report. This name appears in the title bar of the workspace report's pane.
- . Select the timeframe for the traffic about which you want to see a report. You can select either the last 5, 15, or 30 minutes, or the last hour.
- . Select the router interface that is used by the traffic you want to see in this report.
. Specify how wide, in pixels, the graph or chart should appear.
- . Specify how tall, in pixels, the graph or chart should appear.
. Select the type of graph you would like to display. To learn about the various types of graphs available, please see Graph Types.
- . Select the type of trend line you want to see on the report. This line shows the average value of data for the duration the graph is displayed in the Web browser. Choose None, Line, or Curve.
- . Select the dimension in which you would like the graph to display. Select 3Dor 2D to change the dimensions of the lines/bars in your charts.
- Click to save changes.
About workspace reports and filters
Workspace reports only show the data matching the filters applied to the full report. If no filters are applied, all data for the selected time period are shown. For more information on filtering, see Filtering data in a view.