Bandwidth: Top Client Activity

The Top Client Activity report shows the top bandwidth consumers (i.e. devices connected to the gateway’s LAN to send traffic through its WAN) for the selected gateways, over the specified time period.

The report graphs the bandwidth consumed and also plots the corresponding consumption rate across each sub period (e.g. each day).

Additional details for each client shown on the report include its MAC address, name, the gateways through which the client consumed bandwidth, the quantity of times connected, amount of time connected, and the amount of data (in MB) sent and received.

Basic Configuration Fields

• Gateway(s)^*: by default this is set to the gateway(s) selected in the gateway tree. Enter the name(s) manually to modify this field. Click on Filter to open the subfilter options.
• Report time range^*: use the drop-down menu to select from Previous Months, Previous Weeks, Previous Days or Range. Enter the numeric value in the field. When Range is selected, use the calendar pop-up to select the dates. Alternatively, enter the date and time manually (yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm).
• Limit to map area: select Not Limited to include data from any geographic location. Select Manually defined area to create a temporary zone for the analysis – only data from inside this zone will be included in the report. Select One or more zones to limit the analysis to one or more predefined zones (see the AMM Operation and Configuration guide for more information about zones).
• Exclusion Zones: allows the report to exclude data from one or more predefined zones (see the AMM Operation and Configuration guide for more information about zones). Leave this option checked (default setting) to include data from any geographic location. Uncheck this option to specify zones to exclude data from.
• Top N clients to report: limits the number of clients to report on. Default is 25 clients.
• Excessive Bandwidth: specifies the maximum bandwidth consumption (in Mbytes) for clients. The report will highlight all clients which have exceeded this value.
• Limit to clients: filters the report to include only those client names which contain the specified text.
• Show graph in report output: when enabled, shows the graphs for the report. When disabled, only the row data is shown.
• Partially hide MAC addresses and fully hide hostnames: when enabled, hides part of the MAC address, and all of the client names.
• Output Format: select HTML to generate the report in the browser window. Select Excel to display the generated report in Microsoft Excel. Note that the Excel option only works for reports which produce data in a table format.
• Save for later or schedule a run time: enable to create reports that can be saved for future use. See Saving and Scheduling a Report for a Later Run Time for more information.

Advanced Configuration Fields

• Use gateway bandwidth when client data is not available: when enabled, gateway consumption will be reported instead of client consumption. Use for older versions (3.5.1 and older) of the gateway as those versions do not send client data.

^*denotes a required field