Unified Communications Analytics 8.8.3 - Deployment Guide

Classifying domains for message traffic

You also can assign classifications to domains that determine how messages to and from the domains are classified in the insights. For example, using the Classification page you could specify that gmail.com should be classified as a “Personal” domain. For email where the sender or the receiver is in the specified domain, the messages are tagged with the associated classification.

You can assign domains to the following categories:

NOTE: Domains which are not added to the internal domains list or the domains which are added to the internal domains list but without a valid start and end dates, are treated as external.

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Setting where data calculation for insights is performed

In previous versions, any data calculation that is done before displaying an insight is done on the client side (user interface web site). For large amounts of data, this can result in an insight taking a long time to display or timing out with an error. You can set insight calculation to be done primarily in the Data Engine (server-side). As of version 8.7, this option is selected by default for a new installation.

If you select the Calculate insight data on server side option on the Queries page, UC Analytics loads the insight data dynamically with paging by both web server and web client for data-intensive insights. This option is more stable and faster and is recommended, especially for large amounts of data. Table views support sorting for group columns and most metric columns, but sorting is not supported for field columns. For information about field and metric columns, see the section titled “What are the different types of columns?” in the UC Analytics User Guide.

For a list of the data-intensive insights that are optimized by this option, see What insights are affected by the “Calculate insight data on server side” option?

If you select the Calculate insight data on client side option, UC Analytics loads all data at once on the web server with web client paging. This option requires more resources, such as memory, and, for large amounts of data, a 64-bit web browser. Table views support sorting for almost all columns.

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Excluding <none> values from insights

Sometimes, due to environmental considerations, insights can include <none> values that are not relevant and that you want to exclude. You can configure the Queries page to exclude <none> values from being displayed and included in calculations for aggregated and organizational grouped views in some or all of your insights.

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In some cases, certain information is missing and will show as <none>. For example, if a message is a system message or is sent through an SMTP address and does not have a corresponding user account in Active Directory (AD), the AD user attributes such as office, department, or sender name can display as <none> since they do not exist in Active Directory.

In another example, suppose you want to group message counts by department, but the department attribute is not set for all AD users or the AD job (Domain Controller data source) only collected partial users because an OU was specified as the target. In these instances, <none> values could occur.

Excluding today's data in insights

For environments with a large amount of data in which data source collections can run for several hours or longer, you might want to exclude today’s data from displaying in insights that show a relative date range such as 7 days or 28 days. The Exclude Today option is useful when the collection jobs for today have not completed which might result in incomplete data appearing in insights.

Though this option is available to each user in the User Profile, you can set the Exclude Today option for all users in the Admin Settings | Queries page.

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