Use the values from the current plot chart to identify
daily trends in threshold conditions. You can then better anticipate
problems by comparing current values with expected future values or
with past values, and overlaying the chart with situation comparison
criteria, one plotted line for each day specified.
Procedure
- Click Add Historical Baseline in
a plot chart. The tool does not display if historical
data collection has not be configured for the attribute group (indicated
by the presence of the Time Span view tool).
- To plot data samples taken yesterday, the same day last
week, or a particular day or past days, select the check box for that
time range.
- Show
yesterday's data
- Draws a plot line of data samples from the previous 24 hours.
For example, if it is May 30 at 8:45 AM, the samplings will be from
May 29, starting at 8:45 AM. The legend indicates the line color for
each plotted attribute value from Yesterday.
As new samples are added, the oldest are removed from the chart.
- Show
last week's data
- Draws a plot line of data samples from the same day last week.
The legend shows the line color for each plotted attribute value from Last
Week. For example, if this is Wednesday, the samples will
be from last Wednesday.
- Show
this day's data
- Draws a plot line of data samples that have been taken on the
day shown. If you would like to see a different day, click the date
button to open a calendar. Select a month and day prior to today.
For example, you had selected the check box to show yesterday's
data, you could select the day before yesterday in the calendar to
show the past two days.
- Show
data for last __
- Draws a plot line for each of the last number of weekdays or calendar
days you specified. For example, if today is Saturday
and you select the last 7 calendar days, today and all days through
last Sunday are plotted. The last 7 weekdays would be Monday through
Friday of this past week plus the Thursday and Friday of the week
before.
- Time Column
- The time stamp type displayed will be shown along the X-axis.
If the attribute group has other time stamp attributes, you can select
one from the list. Not all time stamps will be displayed along the
axis because of space limitations.
- Click Apply to render the chart
with a baseline for each chosen time range. The
time ranges chosen are listed in the legend along with the color of
the plot line, one line for each day.
- Click OK to close the dialog
box, and perform any of these actions:
- Move the mouse pointer over a baseline to highlight
it; move the mouse pointer over a plot point to see the value, name,
and time stamp.
- Click and drag a smaller time range
to zoom in, then press Esc to zoom out, once for each time you zoomed.
- Right-click a data value that falls
outside normal statistical baseline and click Model
Situation to open the Model Situation chart and populate
the attributes table with the values from the data point. After performing
additional analysis with the modeling tool, you can create a new situation
with the calculated values and edit them as needed.
Example
The chart plots Disk Writes Per Second over a 12-hour period.
We want to compare today's data,
Monday, May 22, with the same period
from the last two weekdays,
Thursday, May 18, and
Friday, May 19. In the Add Historical Baseline
dialog box, select
Show this day's data and
Show
data for last 2 weekdays. After you click
OK,
the two additional days are plotted. You can move the mouse pointer
over a plot point to see the value and the date and time the sample
was taken.
What to do next
After you have adjusted the baseline
calculations and the time span to best illustrate the metric you are
watching, you can save the workspace, and then open it whenever you
want to observe the same baselines with current and recent data samples.