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

Figure 10-17: Application Usage Pattern with Selected Subscribers - Download Volume

Figure 10-18: Application Usage Pattern with Selected Subscribers - Upload Volume