Displaying historical data

Up to this point, you have seen examples of MainView VistaPoint views with data collected from three different current reporting periods: real time, interval, and session. VistaPoint can also display historical data—data collected yesterday or last week.

Historical data is stored on the VistaPoint history data sets. This step shows how to select data from history data sets with the TIME command and display it in a VistaPoint view.

The following figure shows the overall process of collecting historical data. Notice that data is archived to the historical data set in interval records:

Archiving and Displaying Historical Data

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This step has five sections. The first four demonstrate how to use the TIME command to select data from the VistaPoint historical data sets. Each of these four sections demonstrates a particular TIME command parameter. The last section explains how to use the DSLIST view to see the date and time ranges of data stored in your site's historical data sets.

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