NetFlow Charting Widget Panels

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The NetFlow charting widget has four major panels described below.

Title Panel

The panel just presents widget's title specified in the view it was built by.

nm_netflow_view_example_title

The title and/or its appearance can be easily customized by editing the widget.

Filter Panel

Filter panel of the widget defines filter parameters applied to getNetFlowData function as described earlier.

nm_netflow_view_example_filter

The following parameters are presented here:

Time Period can be specified by absolute time limits or as a relative value. Absolute time limits produce period limited by two timestamps. The relative value means a period (in seconds) before the current moment.
Node, i.e. NetFlow exporter address or host name.
Input and output interface indices.
Protocol type (e.g. 6 for TCP, 17 for UDP, etc. -- see List of IP protocol numbers).
Type of Service.
Source and Destination URLs (IP addresses or host names and ports).

See also Fetching NetFlow Data subsection for details about getNetFlowData and its filter parameters.

The Filter panel can be hidden by unchecking Show Filter.

Data Panel

Data panel presents chart's source data and raw data in numerical format using Data Table Editor. The panel can be hidden by unchecking Show Data.

nm_netflow_view_example_data

Chart

Chart panel presents the NetFlow statistics chart.

nm_netflow_view_example_chart