Users Guide

Reports

By clicking OpenManage Enterprise > Monitor > Reports, you can build customized reports to view device details at depth. Reports

enables you to view data about the devices, jobs, alerts, and other elements of your data center. Reports are built-in, and user-defined.

You can edit or delete only the user-defined reports. Definitions and criteria used for a built-in report cannot be edited or deleted. A

preview about the report you select from the Reports list is displayed in the right pane.

NOTE: To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise, you must have necessary user privileges. See Role-based

OpenManage Enterprise user privileges on page 14.

Advantages of the Reports feature:

• Build a report criteria by using up to 20 filters

• You can filter data and arrange by column names of your choice

• Reports can be viewed, downloaded, and sent in an email message

• Send reports to up to 20-30 recipients at a time

• If you feel that report generation is taking time, you can stop the process

• The reports generated are automatically translated to the language which is set while installing OpenManage Enterprise

• An audit log entry is made whenever you generate, edit, delete, or copy a report definition

NOTE:

The data displayed to you in a report depends on the privileges you have on OpenManage Enterprise. For

example, when you generate a report, if you do not have permission to view a certain device group, the data about that

group is not displayed to you.

Table 23. The role-based access privileges for managing reports on OpenManage Enterprise

User Role... Report tasks permitted...

Administrators and Device Managers Run, create, edit, copy, email, download, and export

Viewers Run, email, export, view, and download

Currently, the following built-in reports can be generated to extract information about the following:

• Device category: Asset, FRU, firmware, firmware/driver compliance, scheduled jobs, Alert summary, hard drive, modular enclosure,