90 CHAPTER 11: OVERVIEW OF R EPORTINGn Use top N reports to determine and report on the most active objectson your network. Here, N is a number between 1 and 50 that you canchoose for each report.The different types of report are detailed in Chapter 12.Report Instances You can set up reports for your specific needs. To set up a report, you addan instance of a selected report type, specifying which objects to reporton. For example, you might set up a top N report on the top 10 devices inEurope. You can then schedule the report to be run daily, weekly ormonthly. Alternatively, you could generate an ad hoc report when yourequire one.When a report is run, either by Traffix Manager at a scheduled time, or adhoc, raw data is generated. You can output or view raw report data asmany times as you require, without having to regenerate the report.Output Traffix Manager uses the raw data to output professional reports as hardcopy to a printer on the server, as HTML files, or as Comma SeparatedValue (CSV) files. CSV files can be read into a spreadsheet or databaseapplication for further analysis.See “Setting Output Options” on page 95 for more detail.Periods Covered byReportsThere are three standard report periods: daily, weekly and monthly.Daily ReportsThese reports use all data collected on the specified day (from 00:00 to24:00) and are generated in the early hours of the following morning.For example, if you select Friday (Figure 14), the report is generated earlyon Saturday morning.Figure 14 Time Line for Daily Report Generation00:00 12:00 24:00Raw datageneratedFriday
