Statistics Settings

Home > Reference > Dialogs > Settings Dialog > Statistics Settings

 

The 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 contain all available display values (columns) for the new statistics module. If you select a statistics module of the same group, the list of columns (on the right) will not change, otherwise it will be filled with the values that were selected the last time this module was used.

The Values list contains all available values (columns) that can be displayed by the currently selected statistics module. To add values to the column list, select one or more items and click the Add button. To add a single value, you can also double-click it. The new values will be added to the column list after the currently selected column.

The Columns list contains the selected value columns that will be displayed in the Statistics View. To remove columns, select one or more rows and click the Remove button. To change the sequence of value columns use the Up and Down buttons.

You can also change the display format for the values here. Open a list of available formats with the little arrow buttons in the format column. You can choose between the following formats:

  • Text: The values will be displayed in text format.

  • Small Bar: Values will be displayed as narrow bar graph. The value is also displayed in text format in the center of the bar. Use this format together with a small font (about 7 point).

  • Small Bar(%): Same as Small Bar, but the value is displayed as percentage of the Min Max difference. The Min and Max values can be changed in the corresponding columns to the right.

  • Bar: Same as Small Bar but wider. Use this format together with larger fonts (about 10-12 point) or the system font.

  • Bar(%): Same as Small Bar(%) but wider.

Note: Text-only values like addresses or protocol names will always be displayed as text. Also the color setting is not used for text display but only for bar graphs. Addresses will be displayed using the color that was selected via the Address Filter Settings page of the Settings dialog or the Edit Address Information Dialog. Protocol names will use the text color that was assigned on the Protocol Filter Settings page (foreground color only).

The following columns in the table are only relevant if you selected a graphic format for the value display. In this case you can edit the value's minimum and maximum. This will be used to calculate the filled area of the bar graphs and the percentage display. The minimum value will usually be zero. The maximum value depends on the unit of the chosen display value and your network speed. So if a value is displayed as MBit/s and your computer is attached to a 10 MBit LAN the maximum value will be 10. If you want to display the KByte/s rate of a 54 MBit WLAN the maximum value will be 54 / 8 * 1024 = 6912 KByte/s. To edit these values select the corresponding table cell and press F2 or Insert on the keyboard, edit the value, and press Enter.

The last column allows to edit the color of the bar graph. Click the '...' button to open a color selector.

The Add button will add all selected display values in the value list to the column list on the right. The Remove button will remove all selected rows from the column list.

The Up button moves a selected row in the column list one position up. This means that the corresponding column in the Statistics View will be moved one position to the left. The Down button moves a selected row one position down.

 

See Also