Chapter 3 The Tariscope program
3.10 Telephone traffic measurement
3.10.3 Analysis of traffic intensity
Tariscope allows you to analyze traffic intebsity on different parameters: channels (lines, trunks), routes, gateways, subscribers or groups of subscribers and others. To select the required parameter, you must filter out the calls in the call view. Then click on the Traffic measurement icon on the toolbar or select Data → Traffic measurement from the program menu. The Trunks parameters window appears, the example of which is shown in Figure 3.10.1
Figure 3.10.1
By default, the Active view checkbox is checked. The user has an opportunity to choose anther call view as a data source to analyze traffic intensity. To do this, check the Selected views checkbox and select views in the table. It is possible to choose several views at the same time. If you select a few views, the diagrams of intensity can be displayed in the same coordinate area or in the different areas. To display the diagrams of intensity in different areas, check the Each view in a separate area checkbox.
The Trunks parameters window allows you to strengthen data filtering conditions which will be used for traffic intensity. It is possible to choose a route, trunk or group of trunks for which the traffic intensity will be calculated. For this purpose, click on the "…" button, being to the right of the Routes/Gateways box. The Select routes/gateways window appears an example of which is shown in the Figure 3.10.2.
Figure 3.10.2
Select routes and / or trunks in the window.
To quickly find the desired route or trunk, enter the search value in the Search box. The window displays all trunks that contain this value. An example of such search is shown in Figure 3.10.3.
Figure 3.10.3
By default, all values are selected. To quickly clear all selected values, click the Uncheck all link. To quickly select all the values, click the Check all link.
After selecting the required values in the Trunks parameters window, click OK. The Traffic measurement view is opened, an example of which is shown in Figure 3.10.4.
Figure 3.10.4
The toolbar of this view contains the following icons:
- Save as. Allows you to save a diagram of traffic intensity to a file with PNG or JPG extensions.
- Print. Allows you to print a load schedule.
- Refresh. Allows you to refresh the chart.
- Move backward. Scrolls back the intensity chart with the period specified in the Trunks parameters window.
- Move forward. Scrolls forward the load schedule with the period specified in the Trunks parameters window.
The toolbar also contains calendar items that allow you to display and select the desired period. After specifying a new period, click the Set date button.
The graph allows you to easily change the scale of the displayed data. To do this, hover your mouse over the beginning of the interesting section of the graph, press the left mouse button, and without releasing it, swipe to the end of the area of interest and release the button. The graph will be rebuilt along the selected area.
If necessary, quickly return to the original scale of the chart, on the second line of the toolbar, click the "left arrow" icon near the Zoom label. In order to return to the previously changed scale, click on the "right arrow".
If the traffic intensity graph is based on the current day's data, and you want the graph to automatically change with the arrival of new CDR data, select the data update period in the Update period list. The following values are available:
- Infinity,
- Five seconds,
- Ten seconds,
- One minute,
- Ten minutes,
- Thirty minutes,
- One hour.
The value of Infinity means that the data will not be updated. It is installed by default.
The Line weight list allows you to set the line thickness of the graph.
