Add New Task
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Task Name
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Specify a unique name for the task. The name can contain only alphanumeric
characters and some special characters (greater than (<), less than (<),
colon (:), underscore (_), and hyphen (-)).
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Task Group
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From the
list, select the task group to which the task belongs. In this case, select
Report
Tasks.
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Task Type
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From
the list, select the type of task that you want to add. In this case, select
Demand Reports.
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Demand Reports Task
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Report Types
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Include Demands—From the list, select one or more types of reports to be
generated. The VPN Demands and Group Demands are selected by default. You can
also select LSP Demands.
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Include AS Demands—To generate autonomous system (AS) demand reports, you
must first enable the generation of AS demands by using the set northstar
analytics netflowd generate-as-demands CLI command.
Then, click to enable this toggle button to generate AS demand reports. This
toggle button is disabled by default. If you enable this toggle button, the AS
Report Types list appears. You can select one or more types of AS reports to
be generated.
The
other available options are:
- Ingress AS, Egress AS (default)
- Ingress PE, Ingress AS (default)
- Ingress PE, Ingress AS, Egress AS
- Egress PE, Ingress AS, Egress AS
- Ingress PE, Egress AS
- Egress PE, Ingress AS
- Egress PE, Egress AS
- Ingress AS
- Egress AS
- Ingress PE, Ingress AS, Egress PE, Egress AS
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Report Options > Demand Traffic Schedule
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Select one of the following options to specify the period for which you want the
demand traffic data to be collected:
- Date
range,
if
you want a report that includes data through a specific time
period.
Specify
the start and end dates (in MM/DD/YY format) and times (in HH:MM AM/PM 12-Hour
format) in the Start Time and Stop
Time fields that appear. The maximum time period that you can
select is 7
days.
- Demand Range for N
days,
if
you want a report that includes data for a specific number of days.
Specify
the number of days for which demand traffic information must be collected.
Range:
1 through 60 days.
- Demand Range for last 24
hours,
if
you want a report that includes data for the past 24 hours.
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Report Options > Aggregation Statistic |
The traffic is loaded as demand with a configurable number of statistical
periods.
From the list, select an aggregation statistic option:
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90th, 95th, 99th Percentile (X percentile)—Aggregation is based on the
selected percentile.
The ‘X’ percentile is the value at which ‘X’ percent of all the samples taken
in the previous sampling period lie at or below the calculated value.
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Average—For each interval, the samples within that interval are averaged. If
there are N samples for a particular interval, the result is the sum of all
the sample values divided by N.
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Max—For each interval, the maximum of the sample values within that interval
is used.
- Min—For each interval, the minimum of the sample values within that interval
is used.
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Report Options > Aggregation Interval |
From the list, select the interval for aggregating the
collected data:
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Schedule
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Startup Options
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Schedule—Select one of the following options to schedule the task:
- Activate Now: The task starts at the current date and time.
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Activate Later: The task starts at a later date and time.
In the field that appears, click the calendar icon to select the date and
time at which you want the task to start. Then, click
OK.
Instead of using the Activate Now option, you can also click
Now at the bottom of the calendar for the task to
start at the current date and time.
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Recurrence Options |
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Repeats—Specify the frequency (in Minutes,
Hours, Days,
Weekly, Monthly,
Yearly, or Never) at which the
task recurs.
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Every—Specify the periodicity of the recurrence.
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Ends—Select one of the following options:
- Never—To configure the task to recur at the specified interval.
- On—To select a date and time at which you want the task to end. In the
field that appears, click the calendar icon and select the date and time.
Then, click OK.
- Now—To end a task at the current date and time, click
Now at the bottom of the calendar.
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