Top Applications with Selected Subscribers report

Top Applications with Selected Subscribers report overview

The Top Applications with Selected Subscribers report shows the top specified number of applications by usage for the specified subscribers. ESM hosts appear in the subscriber list in the format subscribername:MAC address.

Use cases

Bill shock avoidance—Use the report to provide application usage information to a subscriber to satisfy concerns that may arise from quota exception notices.

Subscriber profiling—Use the report to determine the behavior of a specific set of subscribers.

Report characteristics

The following table lists the principal report characteristics.

Table 10-15: Top Applications with Selected Subscribers report characteristics

Characteristic

Value

Statistics type

AA Accounting subscriber application

NSP Flow Collector required

No

Selectable metrics or counters

Aggregation types

None (raw data)

Hourly

Daily

Monthly

Report inputs

Prompt

Notes

End date

Calendar date or relative date (for example, two days ago) and time

Granularity

Aggregation types:

  • None (raw data)

  • Hourly

  • Daily

  • Monthly

Report range

Length of time to be reported, in minutes, hours, days, or months

Subscriber Name (or Name Pattern)

Enter a wildcard (%) in this field to populate the list of subscribers.

Subscriber

Search using partial names or wildcard (%).

Select individual items or click Select All.

Rank

Number of items to report

Drill-down support

Yes—Open Application Usage Pattern with Selected Application Profiles to display a graph of the bandwidth consumption for the selected application over time.

Note: Drilling down from the Others segment opens the Application Usage Pattern with Selected Application Profiles report for all applications, not just the ones in the Others category. Drilling down from other applications opens the report for the selected application.

Example

The following figures show a report example.

Figure 10-41: Top Applications with Selected Subscribers report
Top Applications with Selected Subscribers report
Figure 10-42: Top Applications with Selected Subscribers - Total Volume
Top Applications with Selected Subscribers - Total Volume
Figure 10-43: Top Applications with Selected Subscribers - Download Volume
Top Applications with Selected Subscribers - Download Volume
Figure 10-44: Top Applications with Selected Subscribers - Upload Volume
Top Applications with Selected Subscribers - Upload Volume