Load over Time Statistics Settings

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The Load over Time Statistics Settings page inside the Settings dialog:

The Statistics Module combo box contains all available statistics modules. You can use the Module Filter combo boxes to limit the number of statistics modules that are displayed in the Statistics Module drop list. If you change the statistics module, the value list on the left will be updated to display the types of values that can be used for the Load over Time Statistics.

The Values list contains all available types of values that can be displayed by the currently selected statistics module in the Load over Time Statistics. You need to select exactly one entry in this list.

The Chart Type combo box allows to select the chart type that shall be used to display the Load over Time Statistics. See Load over Time Charts for more information about the available chart types.

The Chart Title will be displayed together with the current time below the X-axis of the chart.

Here you can edit the Number of groups of values that shall be displayed in the chart (2-10). This is the number of lines in a line chart, the number of stacked sub-bars per bar in a stacked bar chart, or the number of bars per group in a group bar or deep bar chart. Please note that always one value group ('other') is used to display data traffic that could not be assigned to one of the visible groups (this includes possible rounding differences).

Note: The Network Analyzer will always show the data groups that caused the most traffic over the time that is displayed in the chart. Therefore all captured data for the displayed period is summed up and sorted every time a new entry is added to the chart. So if you choose to display 6 groups in the chart, you will get the top 5 traffic causers and the 'other' group.

The Number of values is the number of points per line, of bars, or of groups of bars in a chart.

The Time per entry is the number of seconds that are used to capture data for each new entry in the chart. The chart will always display the cumulated data traffic that was measured during this period (e.g. Total kilobytes per 5 seconds), not a normalized value.

These controls allow to edit the properties of the Y-axis. Use Show Y-gridlines to display horizontal gridlines in the chart. If Auto scale is checked, the Y-axis will be automatically rescaled if a value is added to the chart that is greater than the current maximum. If Auto scale is not checked, you can enter the maximum value for the Y-axis in the Max. value edit box. The latter is useful if you know the maximum throughput of the monitored network and want to see the used and free bandwidth.

Here you can control the chart margins and legend position.

Use Margin left to edit the space between the Y-axis and the left window border in percent of the window width (1-45%). This space is used to display the axis labels and the Y-axis lettering.

Use Margin bottom to edit the space between the X-axis and the lower border of the window in percent of the window height (1-45%). This space is used to display the axis labels and the chart title. You may need to increase either margin values for small window sizes.

With Legend size you can change the space between the chart border and the window border on the side of the window where the legend is positioned. You can use values between 5% and 50% of the window size. If some of the legend labels are very long, you may also need to resize your window to avoid an overlapping of legend and chart.

The Legend position options control the position of the legend in the chart window:The top option places the legend above the chart, the bottom option places the legend below the chart. If possible, multiple labels will be displayed in a single line. If many long labels are displayed, the legend may overlap the chart or some labels may not fit into the window. Try to increase the window width in this case. The right and left options place the legend right or left of the chart. Very long labels may overlap the chart (left) or may be truncated (right). Use greater legend sizes in this case.