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8.2 Traffic Grapher

This chapter will cover the operation of Traffic Grapher, which allows for

viewing the statistical graphs of a WAN interface or a network policy.

„ WAN Traffic provides the statistical graphs of traffic or packets that are

processed through a network interface.

„ Policy-based Traffic provides the statistical graphs of traffic or packets that

are managed by a network policy.

Terms in Traffic Grapher

Statistical Graph

„ Vertical axis indicates the network traffic or packets.
„ Horizontal axis indicates the time.

Direction / Source / Destination / Service / Action

„ The table headings of the network policies that the Traffic Grapher is

enabled.

Time

„ The statistical graphs are available in different time units, including minute,

hour, day and week.

The update intervals of statistical graphs are as follows:
„ Minutes:Statistics are refreshed on a minutely basis.
„ Hours:Statistics are refreshed on a hourly basis.
„ Days:Statistics are refreshed on a daily basis.
„ Weeks:Statistics are refreshed on a weekly basis.

Bits/sec/ Bytes/sec/ Utilization/ Accumulated (Total)

„ The basic units of network traffic or packets are as follows:

‹ Bits/sec: Data transmission is measured in bits per second.
‹ Bytes/sec: Data transmission is measured in byte per second.
‹ Utilization: Traffic or packets are shown by the proportion relative to

the Max. Downstream / Upstream Bandwidth specified within a
WAN interface.

‹ Accumulated (Total): Traffic or packets are shown by the total traffic

or packets accumulated.