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More things you can do with GoToManage®

Here are more things you can do with GoToManage:

• Graph data trends
• Customize existing searches
• Find useful searches
• Share your search with the community

Graph data trends

Use GoToManage to graph data over time. This example graphs traffic trends on a computer named Motoko and an interface named rl0. You can change these two parameters to an interface and device on your network to run this query against your own data.

Click this GoToManage icon to find traffic trends over time:

To gather data over time, you need to configure a few things:

1. In your Crawler, set the SNMP Interface Statistics plugin by entering the IP address of a router to monitor the interface statistics.
2. Modify the search by replacing rl0 and motoko with the names of interfaces and systems on your network:
   

select history(in_octets, out_octets, 
from_time => '1 day ago',  agg_function => 
'max',series_function => 'diff') 
from /network/device/interface 
where name='rl0' and 
../system/dns_name='motoko'

3. Run your search.
4. Display the results as a chart.
5. Save it to your dashboard.

Customize existing searches

If you find community or company searches that don't quite fit your environment, you can customize them.

This example monitors the disk space on the top 10 systems on the network. Click this GoToManage icon to find the disk space on devices on your network:

The query itself looks like this:

select systemname||' '||name, size, freespace 
from /network/device/wmi/win32_logicaldisk 
where drivetype = 3
order by freespace asc
limit 10

By adding a single line: and freespace < 200000000, you can modify this query to monitor the disk space on the top ten machines when they dip below a threshold of 200mg. After running the search, you can save it as a chart. This produces very different results.

Click this GoToManage icon to find the disk space on machines on your own network that are below 200mg:

The modified query differs by only one line:

select systemname||' '||name, size, freespace 
from /network/device/wmi/win32_logicaldisk 
where drivetype = 3
and freespace < 200000000
order by freespace asc
limit 10

Find useful searches

You'll find that you don't need to create searches yourself. You can use community searches to take advantage of searches that your fellow GoToManage users have developed. This example takes inventory of All Devices by Subnet. Click this GoToManage icon to inventory your own network:

To find a list of all Searches:

1. In your GoToManage Web account, click the Search right arrow, and select Show All Searches:
   
2. Filter to Community Searches.
3. Select All Devices by Subnet.

Not only will you find searches from the GoToManage community, and your own company, but also a list of all of your own previous searches.

Share your search with the community

If you run a search that you will use again, others probably will too. You can save the search and share it with your colleagues. You can even share it with the greater GoToManage community to run the same search parameters against their networks. Don't worry, your search terms or query parameters are shared, not your network data.