Monitor > Trending

This operation allows the user to chose certain counters to perform a linear regression upon. Certain monitor sets are very predictable in nature due to the systematic nature of their usage; disk utilization would be a good example.

Trending Window -

The operative value set from the 'Define Monitor Set' page is the Trending Window. This window of time is used to predict whether the Alarm Threshold value will be met during this time frame. As an example; the System Administrator set this value to predict (using linear regression) whether the disk will hit the alarm level within this 'trending Window'.

Note: The trending algorithm will run every hour, so a trending window of less than one hour will not achieve desired results.