HP Web Jetadmin - Creating Reports and Exporting Data

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OVERVIEW
HP Web Jetadmin provides advanced reporting and data exporting capabilities for the imaging and
printing devices it manages. Collecting, extracting, and then analyzing usage data in your printing
environment can help bring about a balanced deployment, increased productivity, and cost savings.
The Reports feature (Figure 1) allows you to generate
reports based on historical data gathered over time. A
variety of reports offer powerful insight into your printing
environment. Report types include Device Utilization (page
counts), Supply Utilization (consumables usage), Device
Inventory and Accessory Inventory, Event Log History
(Error Log and other events occurring on the device), and
Device Utilization by User (which users printed what).
These reports provide better insight into your print
environment and help control costs. These reporting types
can show color vs. black-and-white printing usage,
simplex vs. duplex usage, media size usage, MFP usage
(like Copy, Scan, Digital Send, and Fax usage), toner
cartridge usage (including forecasting usage and supplies
ordering), and by-user usage (who uses color and how
often they use it). Learn how many pages users print and
which applications they use. Create reports to find out
which devices are used most heavily and which have the
greatest uptime. These reports can be generated on-the-fly
or scheduled and either emailed or saved to disk as
needed. Both HTML and comma separated value (CSV)
formats are supported. Since there have been many
changes and improvements made to the Reports feature in
HP Web Jetadmin, particular focus here is on the Data
Collection and Report Generation functions. One change
is that Charting (graphing ability) is no longer available.
However, it should be fairly straight-forward to create a
report in CSV format, import it into Microsoft® Excel, and
then use Excel to create a chart relative to the data.
The Export devices feature (Figure 2) allows you to extract real-time device data directly from the
Microsoft SQL Server database used by HP Web Jetadmin. Exports can also be generated on-the-fly
or scheduled and either emailed or saved to disk as needed. Both CSV and XML formats are
supported.
In general, reports are used to show historical usage over time, while exporting is used to show
device data valid at the time of the export. In certain situations, exporting this raw data from a Device
List Layout to a CSV or XML file might be more useful than creating a report. Both methods (reporting
and exporting) are offered to meet the various needs of
HP Web Jetadmin administrators.
By using either of these features, you will better
understand your printing environment, which will allow
you to better manage and deploy existing and future
printing and imaging assets.
Figure 1—Navigation Tree
Figure 2—Export devices