Filters

Overview

Filters can:

• Select specific data sets for:
  • Dashboards, Sections, and cards
  • Analysis, Reports, Inventory and configuration
• Support:
  • Categorical results such as Metadata, Applications and Zones
  • Metric results Capture or session
  • Wildcards and selections
  • Alerts
• Directly include or exclude data sets
• Have a hierarchy. Dashboard filters influence the whole dashboard whereas a card-level filter will only influence the card.
• Be saved
• Simultaneously include and exclude IPs:
  • This way, you can include IP ranges but exclude specific IPs if needed
    

• Simultaneously include and exclude zones:
  • This way, you can include zone ranges but exclude specific zones if needed

Options

• Defining a filter opens dialog box:
  • Bookmarked, Saved and Recently used filters save time and remembers per user
  • When typing in box, searches for category, metric or alert
  • Groups for rapid filter definition – Alert, Capture, Session
• Selection dependent options, based on type
• Filters only apply to the data type they relate to (Alert, Session, and Capture)
• Filters are retained on linked dashboards and into Analysis
• Filters in widgets are defined and changed only when authoring
• Filters can be click-activated from tables, line charts, TopN expand, and Analysis

Capabilities

• Filters define what can be seen (Customer Portal)
• Perfect for grouping and drill down:
  • Dashboard with a card per key application
  • Table of key performance indicators per region or Zone (location)
  • TopN per part of a network – EPC, Core, Edge, Aggregation, Cell
• Selective drill down based on what is seen
• Inclusive or Exclusive to move TopN
• Multiple filters, multiple selections and wildcards

Filters in Action

Filters can be viewed or used when in the following locations:

• Monitoring
  • Dashboards
  • Sections
  • Cards
  • Click-activation from Tables, Line Charts and TopN
    
• Analysis
  • Simple definition
  • Click-activation from Distribution, Table and Trend Clusters
    
• Reports
• Inventory
  • Special filter by session name, type and session filter
    
• User group configuration (Portal)
  • Whitelist based
  • Data access for Capture. Device, Zone and Application
  • Session metadata
• Settings, including policies for:
  • Busy Hours
  • Maintenance Windows
  • Alerts
  • Thresholds