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Report Portlets/Editors | Generating Reports
OMNM 6.5.2 User Guide 263
Report Template Editors
OpenManage Network Manager has several report template editors. Creating a New template, can
make
Comparison, Table and Tr e n d templates.
Table reports simply report the configured data in tabular form as you have configured the
columns. Comparison reports display selected attributes comparing reporting devices, for example
a summary graph then a list of devices’ ICMP monitor RTT in the following pages.
A Trend Report displays a data graph with data reported over a polled period.
You can now select more than one attribute for trend reports. Chart generation depends on the
number of attributes selected and the number of targets:
• 1 target, n attributes produces 1 chart with all attributes (line series graph only)
• n targets, 1 attribute produces 1 chart with all the targets
• x targets, n attributes produces n charts with x targets on each
This editor has
General , Source , and Layout panels.
You can edit any but pre-existing templates, whether they have reports attached to them or not.
Consider this example:
Template T has three columns; A, B and C. Someone creates a report R against Template T,
executes the report, saves the data as a historical report H1. Two weeks later, someone modifies the
Template T, removing column C, adding column D.
When executing report R against the revised Template T’, the report now shows columns A, B and
D. User saves the report as historical report H2. Here, H1 only has data for columns A, B and C. H2
has data for columns A, B and D.
If you view H1 you see Template T’ is in use and this template creates a report with columns A, B
and D. Unfortunately, H1 only has data for columns A, B and C, so the report created has data for
columns A and B only. Column D is empty. When viewing H2 you can see Template T’ is in use
and can create a report with columns A, B and D. H2 has data for columns A, B and D, so all data
appears.