User's Manual

456 CHAPTER 11: CREATING REPORTS
Export to CSV You can export any generated report to CSV. This formatted text file can
be imported into various applications, for example, Microsoft Excel. You
can also use this feature to obtain a list of your network devices and
properties to use in your own command line scripts.
Components This section describes the components of the Reporting feature.
3Com Network Director contains a large number of report types.
Feature-based reports are covered elsewhere in this guide, please refer to
Tab l e 79
for further information. In addition to these the following report
types are also available:
■ Inventory Report
■ Capacity Report
■ Topology Report
■ Free Ports Report
Reports are produced in HTML and may also be exported to CSV.
Reports use a simple form of sorting in that the first column is sorted
alpha-numerically. For example, a set of IP addresses would be sorted
10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.11, 10.0.0.12, 10.0.0.13, 10.0.0.2 and so on.
Inventory Report You can obtain an inventory of devices on your network using the
Inventory Report. For each device, the Inventory Report lists the following
details:
■ IP address
■ Device type
■ MAC address
■ Device name
This report is launched from the Reports dialog box and is
selection-sensitive. If you have a number of devices in a stack (e.g. a
Switch 3300 and Switch 1100), all unit types are listed in the Type
column. Similarly, if a modular device (e.g. the Switch 4007), has several
cards in it, each card type is listed in this column. For convenience, it also
displays the number of devices reported on at the start of the report.