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HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide

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Adding a Report

»Table of Contents
»Index
»Notices
»Introduction
»Product Overview
»Getting Started
»Discovery and Identification
»Users and Authorizations
»Networking and Security
»Monitoring Systems, Clusters, and Events
»Storage Integration
»Managing with Tasks
»Tools that Extend Management
»Partner Applications
»Reporting
»System Reporting
Adding a Report
»Editing a Report
»Copying a Report
»Showing SQL
»Reporting Views
»Snapshot Comparison Reporting
»PMP Reporting Options
»Administering Systems and Events
»Troubleshooting
»Reference Information
»Printable version
»Glossary
»Using Help
» Adding a New Report
» Selecting the Sort Order
» Printing the Report
» Command Line Interface
» Related Procedures
» Related Topic

You can save the report configuration for future use or generate a one-time report.

A report configuration is a customer-defined set of preferences that pulls specified criteria from the database tables and places it in a report in the specified format. The report configurations can be saved and used to run a report at a later date with live data.

You must have full or limited-configuration-rights to create, save, edit, copy, or delete report configurations. In addition, you must have full-configuration-rights to view a license key. Users with no-configuration-rights can only run the authorized report configurations.

You can also create a new report by selecting ReportsManage Reports[New].

If Customer 1 with full-configuration-rights generates a report and a private collection, then Customer 2 with full-configuration-rights is allowed to generate a report using the report configuration and private collection that Customer 1 created. Customer 2 is allowed to edit, save, copy, and delete the report configuration but cannot delete the private collection created by Customer 1.

Adding a New Report

  1. Select ReportsNew Report. The New Report window appears.

  2. Select target systems. Refer to Managing with Tasks - Creating a Task for more information.

  3. Click [Next]. The Specify Parameters section appears.

    1. In the Report Name field, enter a name for the new report.

    2. In the Select items to show in report section, select all of the categories or items to include in the report. You can click the tree plus icon to expand a category, and select specific items or click the tree minus icon to collapse a category.

    3. After you have selected all items to include in the report, select one of the following options:

      • Show all systems in the same table. This option displays all categories and items selected in the Select items to show in report section in the report. The selected categories appear as tables, and the selected data items appear as column headers in the report. All systems appear in the same table.

      • Show each system in a separate table. This option displays all categories and items selected in the Select items to show in report section in the report. The selected categories appear as tables, and all the selected data items appear as column headers. Each system appears in an individual table.

  4. Under Preferred format for generated report, select from the following:

    • HTML (Recommended for viewing). This option displays the report in HTML format.

    • XML. This option displays the report in XML format.

    • CSV. This option displays the report in CSV format.

  5. To save the report configuration, click [Save Report]. If the report already exists, the overwrite report message appears. Click [Cancel] if you do not want to overwrite the existing report.

  6. Click [Run Report].

    The new report appears, providing you with the following:

    • Show SQL Queries

Selecting the Sort Order

The Reporting feature enables you to sort the data when it displays on the Report Results page.

  • Ascending Order. Click the column heading you want to sort by once. The data re-queries in ascending alphabetical order.

  • Descending Order. Click the column heading you want to sort by twice. The data re-queries in descending alphabetical order.

Printing the Report

On the Report Results page, select File[Print] from your browser.

Command Line Interface

Use the mxreport command to perform this task from the command line interface (CLI). For assistance with this command, refer to the HP-UX or Linux manpage by entering man mxreport at the command line. Refer to Getting Started - Using Command Line Interface Commands for more information on the command and a link to the manpage.

Related Procedures

» Reporting - System Reporting
» System Reporting - Editing a Report
» System Reporting - Copying a Report

Related Topic

» HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide - Reporting