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Capacity Planning Report

Capacity Planning reports show traffic trends, which are useful for planning. Future traffic is calculated by analyzing previous traffic. Capacity Planning reports project trends for rate, volume, and utilization for the following data on the selected interface:

• Overall traffic (IP Summary)
• Protocol traffic
• ToS traffic

You can specify several display and calculation options for the report:

• Time span of the historical (actual) data, which is shown with a white background on the view
• Time span of the projected data, which is shown with a gray background on the view
• Time range of the data that is used to calculate projections and (optionally) a time filter to exclude certain time periods from calculations
• Analysis type algorithm: Daily Percentile or Daily Average
• Threshold line, which is configured based on your selected percentage and selected bandwidth or speed

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 as the report type at the top of the page.
3. Select the report scope:
   • IP Summary: Overview of traffic on the selected interface
   • Protocols: Protocol traffic on the selected interface
   • ToS: ToS traffic on the selected interface

   The report page is updated.

4. (Optional) Change the reporting time frame and calculation options by using the Trend Settings 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) on the interface.