Quick Start Manual

User Guide 7
Refreshing out-of-date report data
To refresh out-of-date data, click Refresh Data when viewing your report. This triggers a fresh
database fetch operation.
NOTE: The first time you run a default report, it will not contain data until you click Refresh Data.
Best practices
When you save a report, you have the option to refresh the data when opening the report. If the
report takes a long time to run, you will have to wait for the report contents to display. For this
reason, you can leave the “Refresh data on open” checkbox un-checked when saving the report.
This will enable you to see the last version of the report data when you view the report.
Using file-based events with scheduled reports
When scheduling a report, the “Reporter Event” should be used in order for the data to be in
synchronization with Report Refresh Cache.
To use file-based events with scheduled reports:
1. Log in to InfoView as described in ”Accessing the SRM Report Optimizer web interface” on
page 2.
2. Select the folder that contains the report you want to schedule, and click Schedule link for that
report
3. In the Events section, move “Reporter Event” from “Available Events” to “Events to wait for.”
NOTE: If the file already exists prior to the creation of the event, the event is not triggered. In this
case, the event is triggered only when the file is removed and then recreated. If you want an event to
be triggered multiple times, you must remove and recreate the file each time.
Selecting elements for scheduled reports
There are some performance issues associated with selecting a large number of elements for
scheduled reports. For example, in an environment with 2000 hosts or 200 switches, selecting all of
the elements (or a very large subset) may result in a long run time or the report may fail to load.
Seeing how many users are logged on
To see how many users are logged on:
1. Launch the Central Management Console as described in ”Accessing the Central Management
Console” on page 2.
2. Click the Settings link in the Manage section.
3. Click Metrics to see how many users are logged on.
For more information, see the “Viewing current metrics” section of the “Managing and Configuring”
Servers” chapter of the administrator’s guide.