User guide

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Custom Reports Custom Reports enable you to select the information you want to report
on from all available report columns.
Reports History Contains a full history of generated reports maintained by 3Com
Network Administrator. You can view old reports and export them to CSV
using the Report History feature. To aid identification of old reports, the
historical reports are tied to the currently loaded inventory.
Export to CSV You can export any generated report to CSV. This formatted text file can
be imported into various applications, for example, Microsoft Excel. You
can also use this feature to obtain a list of your network devices and
properties to use in your own command line scripts.
Components This section describes the components of the Reporting feature.
3Com Network Administrator contains a large number of reports.
Feature-based reports are covered elsewhere in this guide, please refer to
Tab l e 22
for further information. In addition to these the following
reports are also available:
■ Inventory Report
■ Capacity Report
■ Changes Report
Reports are produced in HTML and may also be exported to CSV.
Reports use a simple form of sorting in that the first column is sorted
alpha-numerically. This does mean, however, that IP addresses are
ordered incorrectly. For example, 10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.11, 10.0.0.12,
10.0.0.13 and so on.
Inventory Report You can obtain a report on the devices in the current inventory file using
the Inventory report. For each device, the inventory report lists the
following details:
■ IP address
■ Device type
■ MAC address
■ Device name
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