Host Conversations Report

The Host Conversations Report details all of the flows reported that included the specified host. Once you set the criteria for a Host Conversations Report you are asked to specify the host. A dialog box appears. Enter the IP address of the desired host to produce a Host Conversations Report.

ReportCenter presents a report showing the IP addresses of the other hosts your PacketShapers have observed communicating with the specified host. Buttons on the Host Conversations Report let you drill down to any of three derivative reports, All Host Activity by Application Report, the All Host Activity by Site Report, and the All Host Activity by Traffic Class Report. The All Host Activity by Site button only appears if you have configured site names in ReportCenter. You can also click on a host IP address in the first or second column to drill down to a Host Pair Flow Report.

Table Headings

The following list includes the column headings on the Host Conversations Report. The table can be sorted on any column by clicking on the column heading.

Heading	Description
Average Jitter	The average variation in speed detected; applies only to certain VOIP connections.
Average One Way Delay	The average of all reported values for measured delay times in one direction of data flow
Bytes	The total number of bytes used by this host pair during the report period
Destination Host	The host receiving packets for a specific flow
Efficiency Level %	The percentage of bytes that did not require retransmission
Flows	The type of data flow used
Host Transmit Speed	The observed rate at which a host transmits data
Network Delay	Average number of milliseconds packets spent in transit
Normalized Network Delay	The transaction delay in the network, normalized by transaction size. It shows how long it takes to send 1Kb of data.
Packets	The total number of packets exchanged by the host pair in the report period
Packet Loss Percentage	The ratio of lost or dropped packets to total packets, expressed as a percentage
PET Client	Packet Exchange Time observed for the client
PET Server	Packet Exchange Time observed for the server
Ping Exchange Time	The round trip time for an ICMP PING protocol packet
Ping Success %	The percentage of ICMP PING requests that received a response before the timeout value was reached
Server Delay	Average number of milliseconds required for servers to process requests. The time starts when the server has received all required request packets and ends when the server issues the first packet of the response.
Source Host	The host sending packets for a specific flow
Throughput	The rate of data exchange for this host pair
Total Delay	Average number of milliseconds to complete transactions; includes network delay and server delay
Transaction Count	The total number of unique iterations of a transfer of data or control detected during the report period