Application Usage Pattern with Selected Subscribers report

Application Usage Pattern with Selected Subscribers report overview

The Application Usage Pattern with Selected Subscribers report the traffic distribution across a specified set of applications for a specified set of subscribers on a specified set of ISA-AA groups and partitions. ESM hosts appear in the subscriber list in the format subscribername:MAC address.

Use cases

Policy pre-planning—Use the report to do the following:

  • identify applications that require traffic shaping

  • define policy implementation details

  • identify patterns at specific times that may benefit from traffic shaping

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 10-8: Application Usage Pattern with Selected Subscribers report characteristics

Characteristic

Value

Statistics type

AA Accounting subscriber application

NSP Flow Collector required

No

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 (minutes, min), hours (hours, h), days (days, d), weeks (w), or months (months, m)

Days of week

Select individual items or click Select All.

Hours of Day

Group/Partition

Search using partial names or wildcard (%).

Application

Search using partial names or wildcard (%).

Select individual items or click Select All.

Subscriber Name (or Name Pattern)

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

Subscriber

Search using partial names or wildcard (%).

Select individual items or click Select All.

Drill-down support

No

Example

The following figure shows a report example.

Figure 10-16: Application Usage Pattern with Selected Subscribers report
Application Usage Pattern with Selected Subscribers report
Figure 10-17: Application Usage Pattern with Selected Subscribers - Download Volume
Application Usage Pattern with Selected Subscribers - Download Volume
Figure 10-18: Application Usage Pattern with Selected Subscribers - Upload Volume
Application Usage Pattern with Selected Subscribers - Upload Volume