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Reporter
Introduction
HP OpenView NetMetrix/UX Reporter lets you create and schedule
reports showing your network activity and responsiveness. Once you
have configured a report, it is generated automatically, according to the
schedule you set, without further intervention.
A report consists of one or more graphs arranged on pages, using data
collected from data sources and stored in data files on your management
station. You indicate which graphs you want in your report, how to
arrange them on the page, and what data sources’ data to depict.
Reporter’s graph types are discussed below.
You can generate a report for one data source or several. If you create a
report for multiple data sources, you choose whether to have the data
from each data source graphed separately or have all sources’ data
shown in a single graph, allowing easy comparison.
In addition to defining a report’s contents, you also specify the schedule
for report generation. For example, you might have some reports that are
generated daily, once a week, several times a month, or once a year. The
schedule you specify is translated into a crontab entry, which is then
executed by cron. Once the schedule is set, you don’t need to do anything
else; the reports are sent to the output destination you define.
For each report, you can request that the output be printed, saved in a
file, displayed to the screen, sent as electronic mail, or processed by a
command that you specify. This flexibility ensures that the report results
are delivered in the manner that suits you best.
Reports can also be published on the World Wide Web. For information,
refer to page 46 and to the file /usr/netm/www/README.www.