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82 vFoglight Cartridge for VMware
Cartridge for VMware User Guide
For this example, leave the default value of 5 so that vFoglight Cartridge for
VMware will retain the five most recent copies of the report. This will provide
five months of historical data on the selected ESX Server Host.
14 Click the Create button.
<Hostname> Monthly Report is created and ready to run. The report should now
appear in the Scheduled Reports View.
Generated Reports View
The Generated Reports View is located at the bottom right of the Report Browser
Dashboard.
Purpose
The Generated Reports View lists reports that have run and are available for viewing in
PDF format.
Viewing Generated Reports
Once a report is generated it is displayed in the Generated Reports View. Simply click
pdf in the View column of a generated report to view that report. To view a pdf file,
Adobe Acrobat Reader must be installed on the system that is accessing the Report
Browser Dashboard.
vFoglight Cartridge for VMware comes preconfigured with several useful reports that
provide information on the virtual infrastructure. The reports are described in the table
below.
vFoglight Cartridge for VMware Reports
Report Name Object Type Description
Report: Server
Summary -
VirtualCenter
VirtualCenter This template can be used to generate a
report that contains the summary details for
every ESX Server managed by the selected
VirtualCenter.
Report: Server
Summary -
Datacenter
Datacenter This template can be used to generate a
report that contains the summary details for
every ESX Server that is contained within
the selected Datacenter.