Overview of Traffic reports

Traffic reports serve several purposes. The reports help you to:

Determine the grade of service (GOS) provided to subscribers during the busy hour at your site.
Determine the port usage on the messaging system in daily or hourly periods. You need to run these reports periodically to monitor performance and to anticipate your system's needs.
Determine if your messaging system is performing at peak efficiency by providing actual usage information that you can compare with the type of usage that was initially forecast for your system.
Troubleshoot administration problems that can occur with subscribers and equipment as system usage increases and requirements change.

Traffic reports also provide the following information about outcalling ports, subscriber traffic, and feature traffic that help you evaluate system efficiency.

Archiving Traffic reports

If you print messaging traffic reports on a regular basis and file them sequentially by date, they can provide an ongoing audit and historical reference of your messaging system. These reports can be useful for analyzing trends and tracking system performance over a period of time. Since traffic records collected for a specific day, hour, or month are retained on the system only for a limited number of days, hours, or months, it is imperative that you run and print the reports on a regular schedule to ensure that you maintain a complete record from one reporting period to the next. See Data Retention Requirements for more information about how long the system retains traffic records.

Printing Traffic reports

To print the contents of any messaging administration screen, go to Reports and select Measurements. Once you generate a report, click the Print button on the toolbar of your browser.

Note

You must have a system printer enabled and available to print screens and reports. If you do not, the print queue fills up with print jobs that cannot be processed. This can slow down the system performance.

Listing of Traffic reports

Each application on the messaging system provides its own set of reports for tracking data that is relevant and specific to the application itself. The following table lists each traffic report and its purpose. To see more information about a particular table, click the procedure link.

Report	Purpose	Procedure Link
Digital Networking
Network Load Traffic (Hourly/Daily)	Displays the number of calls handled by each active messaging Digital Networking port within a reporting period.	Network Load Daily Traffic Report or Network Load Hourly Traffic Report
Remote Messages Traffic (Monthly/Daily)	Displays up to 13 months' worth of information about the traffic load between a local messaging system and a specified remote messaging system.	Remote Messages Daily Traffic Report or Remote Messages Monthly Traffic Report
Traffic-Snapshot	The total traffic for all the machines with the specified connection type. Also displays the total number of updates.	Traffic-Snapshot Daily Report or Traffic-Snapshot Monthly Report

Preparing the system for Traffic reports

Before you can run a report, you must define the features and requirements for that report. The messaging system gathers data according to the requirements that you set.