Persisted Items

The following sections provide the list of views and StatViewer items that are persisted.

Application-Created Views

These views are default views. They are created by the application whenever a port is added, a protocol is configured, or traffic is applied. These views are triggered by an external event. As such, saving them is not practical, as it would lead to duplicates.

You can, however, save changes in view settings like changing column width, removing statistics from a view, and so on.

Presentation settings are saved in the User location and the CONFIG file.

Content settings are saved in the CONFIG file.

User-Created Views

These views are created by the user and may contain statistics that are specific to the configuration. All user views and custom graphs are persisted in the CONFIG file. Both the Presentation and Content settings of these views are saved. Presentation settings are also saved at User level.

StatViewer-Created Views

These views are created by StatViewer when the user performs a specific action. They are highly sensitive to the inner StatViewer configuration and as such, cannot be saved in the CONFIG file and then reloaded when the configuration is opened.

You can change the Presentation settings of any of the views and save it at User level. These changes are saved for the generic view. For example, you can change the color of the grid to green for an Egress Tracking Per Port view for port Chassis1/Card1/Port1. When the same configuration is reloaded, this particular view is not present, but the grid color is green for any Egress Tracking per Port views that are created on that machine.

The StatViewer-created views are:

  • Per-Session drill-down views
View Tree

The items persisted in the view tree are:

The layout of the tree itself, that is, expanded or collapsed nodes

Views/groups selected in the tree

Views with their checkbox enabled

The view tree items are persisted only in the current test; they are not saved at USER or CONFIG level.