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Top N Conversations Report

The Top N Conversations report provides information about the hosts that generate the most traffic on the selected interface. This topic describes how to display a Top N Conversations 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 Conversations as the report type at the top of the page.
3. Make sure the report scope is set to Top N Conversations. The Top N Conversations link should appear next to the report type setting.

   The report page is updated to show a conversation summary pie chart by default.

4. (Optional) Change the data presentation type and the data measurement type by using the Presentation options.
   • Trend Chart of Rate, Volume, or Utilization data: Show a trend chart for data that travels to and from the source host in the conversations. (Default setting)

     Use the Show Top setting to specify the maximum number of conversations to include.

   • Pie Chart: Show a summary pie chart with a list of conversations and their data volumes.
   • Summary Table of Rate, Volume, or Utilization data: Show a table of data that travels to and from the source host in the conversations.
5. (Optional) Change the reporting period: Open the Timeframe dialog by clicking the timeframe link.

   The reporting period is the most recent 24-hour period by default.

Display an Interface Report for a Single Conversation

To drill down to details about a specific conversation, click one of the conversation links in the Top N Conversations view. A report opens, which you can configure to show any of the following data:

You can view this type of report in Details mode or Protocols mode, which have the following options:

• Details mode: Charts of rate, volume, or utilization data in any combination of the following views:
  • (Displayed by Default) Last Hour, Last 2 Hours, Last 8 Hours, and Daily
  • Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly
• Protocols mode Trend Chart or Summary Table: Rate, volume, or utilization for the protocols that the conversations used. You see the data coming into the interface and the data going out from the interface.
• Protocols mode Stacked Trend Chart: Data for all protocols that the conversations used (coming into and going out of the interface).

To return to the summary view of all conversations on the interface, click the link that is named for the currently selected conversation and click Select Top N Conversations.

Find Conversation Views in the Performance Center Console

Conversation data from CA Network Flow Analysis is displayed in the following Performance Center Console locations. (The built-in dashboards and report pages that are noted here show the views by default.)

• Top Conversations (Bar)
  • (CA PC) Custom dashboards
  • (NPC) Interface Pages: Interface Capacity and custom tab views
• Top Conversations (Pie)
  • (CA PC) Custom dashboards; Interface Pages: IP Performance report page
  • (NPC) Interface Pages: Interface QoS and custom tab views
• Top Conversations (Table)
  • (CA PC) Custom dashboards
  • (NPC) Interface Pages custom tab views