Product guide

56 EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your Datacenter
Reporting on Your Datacenter
To complete this task, the storage administrator:
1. Logs in to StorageScope as documented under “Identifying IT assets for
accounting” on page 8.
2. Selects Analysis > Queries > Query Builder.
3. Clicks Create to create a new, custom query.
4. On the Define Initial Settings step of the wizard, sets Name, Description, and Time
Period settings for the query. Since the query will be returning data based on the
present configuration of the managed environment, the DBA selects Current Data.
5. Clicks Next to move to the Areas of Interest page of the query wizard.
6. On the Areas of Interest step of the wizard, selects Hosts from the Hosts grouping
and selects Files from the Files grouping.
7. Clicks Next to move to the Select Columns page of the wizard.
8. Selects, in order, the following columns:
• Hosts.Host Name
•Files.Parent Directory
• Files.File Name
•Files.Actual Size
• Files.Compressed?
9. Clicks Next to go to the Create Filters step of the wizard.
10. Filters the query so that it only includes files that are 250 MB or larger Figure 32.