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Capacity Planning Report

A Capacity Planning report displays estimated projections that are based on your network. This type of report helps determine whether changes are likely to require more or less capacity.

To display a Capacity Planning report, start from an interface report.

Follow these steps:

1. Display an interface report in either of the following ways:
   • Locate and click an interface on the Interfaces page.
   • Click an interface link in an existing view--for example, on the Enterprise Overview page.
2. Select Capacity Planning from the report type menu at the top-left corner of the page.
3. Select the scope for the Capacity Planning report:
   • IP Summary: Show IP summary data in a trend chart and table.
   • Protocols: Show information about inbound and outbound protocol data in stacked trend charts and tables.
   • ToS: Show information about inbound and outbound ToS data in stacked trend charts and tables.

   The report page is updated to show the selected data.

4. (Optional) Use the Trend Settings to change the reporting timeframe and calculation options.
5. (Optional) Change the data presentation type and the data measurement type by using the Presentation options:

   Rate (default setting), Volume, or Utilization

   Each option displays views of data that is inbound (In) and outbound (Out) with respect to the interface.

   The currently displayed metric is highlighted and marked with a blue arrow.