FlexView Pie Graphs

In a FlexView tab, click the Pie Graph button in the FlexView toolbar to display the FlexView data in a pie graph format. The pie graph is situated above the FlexView table; all of the table features remain active while the pie graph is displayed. The pie graph area is split into three sections:

Graph - the left section shows the actual pie graph
Legend - the middle section displays a legend that shows the particular column or row associated with the colors in the pie
Graph Settings - the right section contains two tabs that allow you to configure the pie graph

A pie graph provides a snapshot showing information as slices in a pie. Each color-coded slice represents a particular column or row as a percentage of the pie. Pie graphs are best used for understanding the relationship between related values (columns). For example, to determine what percentage of received packets were unicast vs. non-unicast, you could select the In Unicast Packets and In Non-Unicast Packets columns and easily see the contribution from each to the all received packets. Holding the mouse pointer over a particular slice will show a tool tip that identifies that value.

Sample Pie Graph

Pie Graph

Drop-Down Menu Button

Click this button to display pie graph menu options:

Export Graph - This option lets you export the currently displayed pie graph information as a BMP, JPG, PNG, or TIFF formatted image file.
Print Graph - This option lets you print the currently displayed pie graph.

Pie Graph Settings

The Columns tab and the General Controls tabs are used to configure the pie graph. In the Columns tab, select the columns you want displayed in the pie graph. Each column that is selected will be displayed as a slice in the pie. If only one column is selected, the pie shows the share of the pie for the specific number of rows set in the General Controls tab as a slice in the pie. The General Controls tab changes depending on the number of columns selected in the Columns tab.

With multiple columns selected:

With multiple columns selected, the choices on the General Controls tab let you choose the Maximum, Average, or Minimum values from all rows. You can compare columns to show the highest, average or lowest values for each of the selected columns.

	NOTE:	Some FlexViews are intended to plot only Single column values. For example, the (Interface) Port Utilization - Graph FlexView that is provided with Console shows port utilization by plotting the single column, Total Octets for the five highest interfaces. If multiple columns are selected for this FlexView, the graph, as designed, can no longer plot port utilization. Instead, it will show the averages for the selected columns across all interfaces.

With a single column selected:

With only one column selected in the Columns tab, the General Controls tab lets you specify the following information.

General Controls - Single Column Selected

Highest n Rows, Lowest n Rows, n=: With a single column selected, you can show the data for the specified (n) rows with the highest or lowest values for the selected column.

	NOTE:	If you set n= to a number greater than the number of rows in the table, the graph will only show the rows available from the table; if you also check Show Pie for other, then a slice for other will be shown as zero in the graph and the legend. For example, if you are graphing values for the highest five rows (or four rows with Show Pie for other checked), but have only four rows selected in the table, only four rows will be graphed and the slice for other will be zero.

Show Pie for Other: When checked, a slice labeled Other is added to the graph to show the sum of the values from all of the rows not specifically selected on the Columns tab.

X-Axis Label, Y-Axis Label, Graph Label: These fields allow entering text titles for the X and Y axes and the title that appears above the graph.

	NOTE:	These labels can only be defined when there is a single column selected. However, once the labels are entered, you can select additional columns and retain the same labels.

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