Managing Views

Listed below are some of the functions you can use to display and manage statistics views in StatViewer.

  • View Sets. The statistic views are presented in sets that are either associated to each configuration section or user defined. It is basically a collection of groups and their views. A View Set can be selected from the Data tab in the ribbon. For more information, refer to View Sets.

  • View Tree. In StatViewer, a view is arranged in a hierarchical structure. A view is arranged within groups and can be reorganized according to your convenience. This layout makes it easy to navigate from one group to another. By default, the application creates a group of views. You can create and maintain new groups, subgroups, and views within them. This organization of views leads to a tree-like structure termed view tree. For more information, please refer to View Tree.

  • Displaying Views. StatViewer displays several views like chart views, grid views, traffic statistics views, and so on. Please refer to Displaying Views for the steps needed to display and manage a view.

  • Resizing Views. You can also resize the view layout either vertically or horizontally. For further information, please refer to Resizing Views.

  • Generic Paging. In some cases, after a test is run, a large number of statistics is generated. To view these statistics, StatViewer provides a generic page-browsing facility. You can use this facility to switch from one page to another. StatViewer also shows the total number of pages and you can specify how many statistics you want to view per page. When you switch from one page to another, StatViewer shows a progress bar to indicate that it is processing to display the next page. Note that page browsing is available only for filter grid views. For more information, please refer to Generic Paging.

  • Event Markers. Event markers allow your application to show StatViewer events for different time samples or values. Event markers can be enabled or disabled for a view. By default, the event marker is enabled. For more information, please refer to Event Markers.

  • Custom View Wizard. User can customize the view as per need. For details refer to Creating Custom Views section. <Statistics->Setup view wizard->Creating Custom Views>.

  • Overview Control. The overview control is placed at the bottom of an existing chart or grid. It is used to control the zoom interval and to scroll back and forth through the data. The sliding window on the overview component establishes what can be viewed in the detailed chart or grid. For more information, please refer to Overview Control.

  • GUI Persistence. StatViewer is customizable not only at global level, but also at per-view and per-statistic level. User and custom graphs can be created, different statistics can be added, charts can change colors, grid columns can change their size and position, alerts can be created, and so on.

  • However, all these customizations are lost when the application is closed. The GUI Persistence feature automatically saves all created views and settings either in the application configuration file or at user level in the Windows Registry. For more information, please refer to GUI Persistence.

  • Run View. The run view feature offers a quick and convenient way to navigate through available iterations. The StatViewer window displays a master iterations tree that is automatically populated with the iterations defined for the current test. This helps you navigate through the available iterations in the current real-time test. No additional integration or application effort is required. For more information, please refer to Run View.

  • Grouping Statistics. StatViewer now allows you to organize a long list of statistics into small units so that you can easily track and view a statistics group in the view. For more information, please refer to Grouping Stats in Non Time Series Grid Views.

  • Per Session Drill-Down Views. Per Session statistics have a separate view to display the lower-level information. Any global aggregated view can be drilled down for further details. For more information, please refer to Per Session Statistics.

  • QOE. You can view the statistics for an IxLoad QoE/ test in the Statistics pane, once you create the configuration in IxLoad and run it. For more information, please refer to QoE/VideoSupport.

  • Network Diagnostics Views. The Network Diagnostics view is based on protocol-specific statistics and it is available only if the Enable Network Statistics check box is selected in the IxLoad Test Options window. Starting from these views, you can further drill down to the Per Session or Per Range levels or filter/sort the results. For more information, please refer to Network Diagnostics.