User guide

ExtremeWare EPICenter Software Installation and User Guide 16-21
Creating New Reports
and use the browser’s Print button, or the Print command from the File menu, to initiate
the print.
Creating New Reports
The EPICenter software allows you to customize the existing EPICenter dynamic reports,
andto define new reports. Becausethe reportsuse HTML andTcl,you can incorporate the
new or modified reports into the running EPICenter server without requiring a restart. In
addition, the EPICenter software includes features that aid in debugging user changes.
All the files needed to create or modify reports can be found in the directory
<epicenter_install_dir>/user/reports,where<epicenter_install_dir> is the
directory where the EPICenter software resides (by default
epc3_1 in the Windows
operatingenvironment, or
/opt/epc3_1 on aSolaris system).There are twosubdirectories
under the
reports directory:
• The
html directory contains the HTML files displayed by the EPICenter server. The
HTML files in the reports directory have the following functions:
—
index.html sets up the various frames for the browser display. It references
menu.html to definethe menu on the left-hand side, and body.html for the content
in the main panel of the window.
—
menu.html defines the menu items for the predefined reports, and includes links to
the html files that generate the reports. This is a generated file.
—
body.html defines the content that appears in the main panel of the window when
the Reports feature is requested, either from the EPICenter software Start-up
window, or from the icon on the Navigation Toolbar. Modify this file if youwant to
change or add to the list of Reports and their descriptions.
—
color1.html defines the color of the bar at the top of the main content window.
—
epistylesheet.css contains the style definitions used in the menu andmainbody
frames.
—
reportstylesheet.css contains the style definitions used in the reports
themselves. To change the look of all reports, you can modify this stylesheet.
— The remaining files, such as
device_summary.html,andvlan_summary.html,
define a number of the actual reports available from the Reports module.
Note that some ofthe reports(the InterfaceReport and the four Log reports) arenot
user-modifiable, and are not included in the HTML directory.