Users Guide
Monitoring Network Availability | Performance Monitoring
396 OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide
How To:
Create a Monitor Report
You can create reports based on your monitors. The following example creates a report based on
How to:
Create an SNMP Interface Monitor
above.
1
Create a new Report Template by right-clicking the Report Templates portlet, selecting
New
> Table Te mplate
.
2
Name the report (here: Test SNMP Interface Report).
3
Select a source in the Source tab. Here:
Active Monitoring > SNMP Interfaces
.
4
Notice that the
Select your inventory columns
panel displays the attributes available based on
your monitor selection.
5
Select
Available
columns and click the right arrow to move them to
Selected.
In this case we
select SNMP Interfaces: Monitor Target, Polled Date/Time, ifInErrors.
6
Arrange the columns and fonts as you like in the
Layout
tab.
7
Save
the template.
8
Right-click, and select
New
in the Reports portlet.
9
Enter a
Name
and
Title
for the report.
10
Notice that since this is the first report created since you made the Test SNMP Interface
Report template, that it is the
Report Template
already selected.
11
Since the monitor already filters devices, we add no filter in the Report, although you could
add one to further filter the monitored devices.
12
Test SNMP Interface Report should appear in the Reports portlet.
13
Right-click and select
Execute
(noticing that you can also schedule such reports, even
repeatedly).
14
Click the magnifying glass to the right of the Report Completed message in My Alerts to see
the report.
15
Hover your cursor over the lower right corner of the report to see a set of icons that let you
expand, zoom out and in, save, or print the report.
How To:
Create a Monitor Target Report
Similar to Monitor Reports, you can create reports based on the targets associated with your
monitors. The following example creates a report based on How to: Create an SNMP Interface
Monitor above.
1
Create a new Report Template by right-clicking the Report Templates portlet, selecting New
> Table Template.
2
Name the report (here: Test SNMP Interface Targets Report).
3
Select a source in the Source tab. Here: Active Monitoring > SNMP InterfacesTargets (there
should be two entity types for each monitor: one for the actual monitor data, and one for the
targets).