Graphs

Network Monitor > Reports > Report Templates > (click the name of a report template) > Add graph or click the icon for a graph item

Network Monitor > Reports > View > (click the name of a customized report) > Add graph or click the icon for a graph item

Graphs display a chart of recorded monitor data over a specific period. Each graph can contain data from up to 8 individual monitors. Every monitor is coded with a specific color. The color is specified in the relevant Style template.

Basic properties

• Period - Specifies the period for this item. Applies to Customized reports only.
  • Current day, week, month, quarter, year
  • Last day, week, month, quarter, year
  • User defined period
  • Offset in days

  Note: Report templates specify the time period when the report template is run.

• Data type - Selects the type of data and unit of measure to include in the report.
• Header - Specifies header text for the graph. Optionally include the following parameter in the header.
  • %graph_type - Displays the report data type in the graph.
• Footer - Specifies footer text for the graph.

Advanced properties

• Data option - average (default), min, max - Defines how data is presented when there are more recorded samples for a given position in time. Affects visual presentation only.
• Separate monitors - If checked, each monitor is graphed separately.
• Fill - If checked, the graph is filled. Ignore if more than one monitor is included in the graph.
• Legend - If checked, include a legend after the graph. This contains a reference to all monitors included in the graph, as well as their extreme values over the period.
• Data filter - Optionally specify a min and max range for visible data. Data outside the range is ignored.
• Custom scale - Optionally limit the graph to a certain range in the Y-axis. Normally, this is controlled automatically by the type of the data.
• Graph dimension - Specify the dimension of the graph image. The default value is 1000 x 152 pixels.

Customize report fields only

For Customize reports, click the hyperlink of a graph item to display a Monitor list page. specify the monitors included in the graph.

• Add monitor - Displays an Add monitors to graph page.
  • Select monitor / Selected monitors - Enter text to display the names of monitors in the Select monitor list that match the text entered. Select one or more monitors in the list, then click the Add button to add the monitors to the Selected monitors list. You can also click the Select button to browse for target monitors. To remove a monitor, select it and click the Remove button.
  • Only monitors storing data of the type specified in the graph can be selected.
• Delete - Deletes a selected monitor.
• ( or ) - Moves an item up or down in the list.