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Graph shooter

Graph Shooters can be used to retrieve and show numeric SNMP fields in real-time graphs. The number in the upper-left corner of the Shooter icon indicates the polling interval.

If the "At runtime" keyword is used (in the Shooter definition) as the Target instance, the Graph will prompt for selecting the desired instance at runtime. This option makes it easy to zoom-in on different ports of a multi-port switch when trying to find performance bottlenecks.

The Inst control lets you choose the instance at runtime!

If the "All Instances" keyword is used in the Shooter definition then the values of ALL instances of the OID specified as the Target are shown in one Graph! The All Instances option makes it easy to show - for example - the load of all ports of a switch in one Graph!

The output of a Graph Shooter in which the All Instances keyword is used.

Graph types

The current version of Monitor one supports 4 different graph-types: an 2 dimensional line-graph, the same line-graph but with a 3 dimensional look, a bar- and an area-graph. You can select the desired graph-type by clicking one of the Graph type speedbuttons

Raw/Delta

Use the Raw and Delta speedbuttons to select how to display the retrieved SNMP values. Use Raw for displaying utilization or percentage statistics. Delta displays the difference between the last retrieved values and the previous ones. Delta is usually used for showing Bytes/sec, Frames/sec etc...

Lin/Log/Automatic UpDown scaling

Use the Lin (Linear) or Log (Logarithmic) speedbuttons to set the desired y-axis scaling. If you select Options|Automatic UpDown scaling then Monitor one automatically scales the Y-axis up/down each time new data is added to the graph. In web mode Automatic UpDown scaling is always ON.

Top-20 series only

If an "All Instances" graph is shown, it might happen that there are so many series to show that the size of the graph does not fit into the window/screen. This is where the Top-20 switch is meant for! Click the Show Top-20 series only speedbutton to limit the number of displayed series to the top-20 only.

Title and Axis/Background color

Right-click somewhere on the graph and choose the desired menu-item in order to change the Title and Axis of a graph or change the background color.

Graph/Data tabs

The Graph and Data tabs speak for themselves. The Data tab lists besides the Min, Max and AVG of the retrieved values also the most recent 5 retrieved values. See the screenshot below

The real-time Graph windows are available in native- as well as in web mode. In native mode, all graph settings as: graph type, colors, window size, Abs/Rel etc... are saved to the database and are restored again the next time you start the same Graph Shooter. You can also change the look and feel of the Graph window in web mode but these modifications are not saved to the database!