WebCast excels at painting clear and meaningful pictures of network activity. Drilling down through WebCast's hierarchical layers of graphs and statistics is highly intuitive. The product also supports a variety of settable alerts for quick notification of network problems. The newspaper-style reports, which you'd typically schedule for overnight production to depict the previous day's network activity, are a quick overview of key pieces of network information, such as the busiest 10 applications, and the most and least heavily used segments. An administrator can schedule the exporting of these reports as .GIF image files, easily embedded in non-WebCast Web pages that the administrator might have separately designed.
Administrators can also create real-time reports.
By interactively selecting which statistics a real-time report contains, administrators can focus precisely on the network attributes they're interested in. Although WebCast's reports are highly user-configurable, you may not need to alter them. Designing a custom report is child's play. For example, to create a detailed analysis report, we simply chose a combination of graphical and text report entries. The entries included such network parameters as IF Speed, Duration, Utilization, Octets and Packets.