FlowFalcon View Editor

Create Custom FlowFalcon Views

SevOne NMS provides a starter set of FlowFalcon views to enable you to create FlowFalcon reports right out of the box and to help create FlowFalcon views that are specific to your network. Starter set views display an asterisk <*> in the View drop-down list.

1. Click the Metrics drop-down. This field appears when you select the Advanced FlowFalcon Views check box on the Cluster Manager Cluster Settings tab.

   • Select Bandwidth to create a view that focuses the report on the volume of traffic.

   • Select Medianet to create a view that focuses the report on Cisco Medianet video statistics.

   • Select Response Time to create a view that focuses the report on the delays caused by various parts of the network. To use the Response Time metric views, you must select the Monitor NAM Data check box on the Edit Device page and define the NAM settings so that a Cisco NAM device sends NAM response time data to the FlowFalcon Reports page.

2. Click the View drop-down and select a view to customize or select New View to create a view from scratch. See the FlowFalcon Views chapter to view the list of starter set FlowFalcon views.

3. Click the View Category drop-down.

   • Select an existing view category to include the view in the category you select.

   • Select New Category to create a new view category for the view. Enter the category name in the text field that appears.

4. Click the Enable Aggregation drop-down.

   • Select Disabled to create a granular view that uses raw flow data. Whenever you select Disable, a message appears to warn you that any aggregation data associated with the view will be deleted. Click OK on the message but be aware that when you click Save, all aggregated data that is associated with the view is deleted.

   • Select Enabled to create an aggregated view that uses aggregated flow data. There is a limit to the number of aggregated views your appliance can support.

5. In the New View Name field, enter the name of the view.

6. The Flow Fields section enables you to select the flow template fields to include in the view. The flow template fields you move to the Fields in View field are included in the view (use Ctrl or Shift keys to multi-select). The fields display in the report in the sequence in which they appear in the Fields in View list.

7. Click one of the following buttons.

   • When you edit a view, click Save to overwrite the original view with the changes you make. This deletes any existing aggregated data for an aggregated view.

   • Click Save as New to create a copy of the view. This preserves aggregated data for the original view when you edit an aggregated view. (The new aggregated view starts out with no aggregated data.)

   • When you edit a view, click Delete to delete the view and any associated aggregated data.

8. Click FlowFalcon to return to the FlowFalcon Reports page.