Feature # 9: Output from statistics

EtherPeek NX™

> ## Feature # 9: Output from statistics

> #### Building a history of your network's performance

> You can periodically save statistics from open Capture windows or open Monitor statistics windows to any of a variety of Statistics Report formats. Each report format includes a particular selection of statistics, and saves data in XML HTML *.csv (comma separated values text in ASCII encoding), or *.txt (tab-delimited text in UTF-8 encoding) file formats. Alternatively you can choose the CSV Row Report to append each new output from Summary Statistics to the same set of *.csv files.

> To periodically output current statistics:

> 1. Open the Statistics Output view of the dialog appropriate to the source of the statistics you wish to output; Monitor Options (for Monitor statistics) or Capture Options (for a particular Capture window). The Statistics Output views are identical, and only the source of statistics is different.
> 2. Check the checkbox in the upper left to enable saving statistics. Use the combo boxes at right to set the frequency with which you want to update the statistics files. With the exceptions noted below, each new report is written over the previous report, replacing it.
> 3. Choose the type of statistics to be output and the file format to be used from the Report type drop-down list. A description of the selected report type is shown in the lower part of the Statistics Output view.
> 4. In Report folder, enter the location to which these periodic reports should be saved, You can click the ... ellipsis button to navigate to the location.
> 5. Check Reset statistics after output to return statistics counts to zero after each report is written. This allows you to create a series of reports, always starting at zero.
> 6. Check Align save to time interval to synchronize the output of reports to the nearest whole unit of time. For example, if your interval is set to some number of Hours, output will occur on the hour when this option is checked.
> 7. Check Create new file set to create a series of statistics output reports, rather than a single report which is overwritten (or, in the case of the CSV Row Report only, appended to). When this item is checked, reports are written to new file folders, created at an interval you specify in the New File Set Schedule dialog, available by clicking the Set Schedule button.
> 8. Check Log output to send a notice sent to the log file when a statistics report is updated.
> 9. Click OK to enable your choices.

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