Users Guide

Report Portlets/Editors | Generating Reports
OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide 263
Report Template Editors
OpenManage Network Manager has several report template editors. Creating a New template, can
make
Comparison, Table and Trend 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.