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Introduction

The TopN Favorites is a custom dashboard view built from available TopN key Tables components. It can be accessed by selecting Views -> TopN Favorites from the opCharts menu bar.

TopN favorites Favorites and its options are displayed based on the selection from Views -> TopN Tables. For more information on these see: opCharts Chart.

TopN Tables can be used to add, edit and delete TopN records Table definitions and it can be accessed by selecting Views -> TopN Tables. 

Overview

TopN Favorites

The TopN Favorites includes the Components which exists under TopN Key dropdown like:

opCharts comes with these TopN Tables

  • TopN CPU Load
  • TopN Memory Load
  • TopN In Util
  • TopN Out Util
  • TopN Error Rates
  • TopN Out Discard Rates

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Note: There Only the first 9 TopN Tables in Order with Show in Favorites checked, will be only top 9 components displayed under TopN Favorites.

TopN Error Rates and TopN Discard Rates Blank

It is 99% likely that these are not missing but that there are no values for these types of things.  In network devices it is normal to see output discards and input errors, it is VERY uncommon to see input discards and output errors.  Back with older networking technologies like Frame Relay, X25, etc we used to see this happen and very rarely now we see it with bad transceivers and cables causing these values.displayed inTopN Favorites.

Sparklines

The small graphs for each TopN are called "sparklines", they give you an impression of the full graph which you can see by clicking on the sparkline or the node.

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This is a option to Select TopN records with an option to select 5, 10, 20 or 50 records. By default it shows 10 records or the one which you enter while configuring in TopN tables.

TopN Error Rates and TopN Discard Rates Blank

It is 99% likely that these are not missing but that there are no values for these types of things.  In network devices it is normal to see output discards and input errors, it is VERY uncommon to see input discards and output errors.  Back with older networking technologies like Frame Relay, X25, etc we used to see this happen and very rarely now we see it with bad transceivers and cables causing these values.

TopN Tables

The TopN Tables have a option page has options to add, edit and delete TopN recordsTables.

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To create a new TopN Table, press the + button. You will then need to define a name, title, the type of data you want to use (Derived Data or Data), what that data is and the sorting and ordering of the data in the TopN tableWe can add and configure a record using + button, enter necessary details, select records from Data Section and existing combination of TopN Keys  as shown below.

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There is an are also options available to select Show in Favorites which shows the added records in Views -> TopN Favorites from opCharts menu bar. We have other options to You can also select Show Value, Show Element, Show Sparkline which shows respective content.

There is a Add Nodes Filter option which allows us to filter and selectrequired combination of node as shown below.

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We can edit any existing record by clicking on edit button next to Add(+) button.

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