User's Manual

Storage Essentials 5.00.01 User Guide 429
13 Running Reports
IMPORTANT: Depending on your license, Reporting may not be available. See the “List of
Features” to determine if you have access to Reporting. The “List of Features” is accessible from the
Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).
This chapter describes the following:
• ”About Reporting” on page 429
• ”Accessing Reporting” on page 431
• ”Viewing Reports” on page 432
• ”Viewing Report Collectors for an Element” on page 432
• ”Refreshing a Report” on page 433
• ”Changing the Formatting of a Report” on page 433
• ”Opening a Report in a New Window” on page 434
• ”Maximizing the Screen Space for a Report” on page 434
• ”Filtering Data in Global Reports” on page 434
• ”Sending a Report by E-mail” on page 435
• ”Managing E-mail Schedules for Reports” on page 436
• ”Creating Custom Reports” on page 442
About Reporting
Reporting provides a variety of detailed reports, such as dependency, event, and utilization reports
for discovered elements. To view a report, click a report name in the tree in Reporting. The report
appears in the right pane.
IMPORTANT: If you are shown the message “The report does not contain any data,” verify the
collector for the report is running. You may also want to verify a collector is running if you believe
the report is not displaying the latest information. Data collectors gather information for reports. If
you stop a data collector, its reports are not updated. See ”Managing Collectors for Reports” on
page 178.
The management server provides reports that display performance information in a variety of
formats:
• HTML (Default) - The software displays the report in a Web page by default.
• PDF - The software displays the report in Adobe Acrobat, a good option if you need to print the
report. The software assumes you already have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your
computer. To obtain a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader, go to http://www.adobe.com.