Traffic Distribution By Device Operating System report
Traffic Distribution By Device Operating System report overview
The Traffic Distribution By Device Operating System report shows the traffic distribution based on the end-user device OS.
Use cases
Network resource planning—Use the report to adjust bandwidth, for example, based on the availability of a new device OS version, and the projected mass download of the new OS.
Risk management—Use the report to apprise customers of the number of devices of a specific type; for example, when the devices are known to adversely affect traffic in some manner.
Report characteristics
The following table lists the principal report characteristics.
Table 4-4: Traffic Distribution By Device Operating System report characteristics
Characteristic |
Value |
Statistics type |
AA Cflowd comprehensive application group (per device or per application group) |
NSP Flow Collector required |
Yes |
Domains |
Residential / Wi-Fi (ESM)
Mobile
Wi-Fi (DSM)
Business |
Report inputs |
Prompt |
Notes |
Domain |
Residential / Wi-Fi (ESM), Mobile, Wi-Fi (DSM), Business |
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 (minutes, min), hours (hours, h), days (days, d), weeks (w), or months (months, m) |
Days of week |
Select individual days or click Select All. |
Hours of day |
Select individual hours or click Select All. |
Node Type |
Search using partial names or wildcard (%). |
Application Group |
Select individual application groups or click Select All. |
Device Operating System |
Select individual OSs or click Select All. |
Metrics |
Download Traffic, Upload Traffic, Total Traffic or # Hits |
Percentage Threshold for Chart |
Specify the threshold to collapse an OS into the Other category. The default is 5%. |
Drill-down support |
No |
Example
The following figure shows a report example.
Note: A question mark (?) indicates that the device operating system version (major, minor, or dot) is not identified.