COMNET III

COMNET III Reports and Statistics
13.2 Global Traffic Command Reports
All of the reports that are available for local transport, answer, and setup commands are also
available for the global commands.
The reports work a little differently, however. The local commands may be used in several
sources attached to the same node but the statistics are collected at one place (on the command)
and, thus, this command aggregates the statistics across multiple application sources that
use this source. This subtlety can affect message delay results by aggregating unrelated delays
in the same report when the command is used on multiple sources and the command uses
the "use original message" text option or the command is an answer command.
The global command, however, is cloned so that each source that uses a global command
has its own copy of the global command. Thus, different sources on the same node using
the same global command will have separate reports for these commands. However, if the
source reuses the same global command, it will reuse the same cloned copy of the command
and thus aggregate the statistics of these instances. This behavior is likely to be what is
desired since the reused command is probably doing something similar in each instance so
that the statistics are comparable and related.
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