HP Web Jetadmin - Creating Reports and Exporting Data

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 Device Utilization by User: Captures pages printed and applications used on a by-user basis.
Collection occurs at the end of every print job (end-of-job trap event). (Requires HP printer driver
or HP Universal Print Driver (UPD) in Microsoft Windows® environments only.)
 Event Log History: Captures printing device errors and their frequency, as logged by the device’s
Event Log.
 Hourly Peak Usage: Captures page count usage information every hour; similar to Device
Utilization data collection except performed hourly.
 Supply Utilization: Captures supplies usage information (including toner cartridges, fuser kits,
drum kits, and transfer kits).
NOTE Device Utilization by User data collection should be used sparingly. Since it invokes a
real-time data collection for every job sent to the device, it is designed to be used on a small
number of devices to help understand who is using a device and which devices they are
using. This data collection type is not intended to be used on a fleet of printing devices.
Hourly Peak Usage data collection should be used sparingly. Since it invokes an hourly data
collection, it is designed to be used on a small number of devices (ideally no more than 100)
for a short period of time (a few weeks to a month) to help understand usage during a
particular day of the week/month. This data collection type is not intended to be used on a
fleet of printing devices over an extended period of time.
Applying a data collection to any device or group of devices causes an immediate data
collection to occur. This is not alterable. This data collection establishes a base usage level for
the devices. All subsequent data collections occur on a daily basis at the user-defined time
(default is 12:00 am).
As data is collected, it is stored in tables within the HP Web Jetadmin database. Data retention can
be set to a value between 1 and 5 years, by going to Tools > Options > Shared > Server
Maintenance > Reports. By default, it is set to 1 year. Also available on this page is the option to
delete data from the database, with options for All data, User data, or Device data.
Report generation basics
Reports are generated from the collected data in the database and then formatted based on user-
specified parameters. Reports can be generated in a summary format or a reporting period format
and scheduled to occur automatically. Various report types (Figure 4) are available that correspond to
the data collection types defined above.
Figure 4—Report types