Predefined reports, Run enhanced reports, New enhanced reports – HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual

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Table 14-2 Reports by Product buttons

Description

Name

Creates a new report.

New

Edits a selected report. Only enabled for user
created/defined reports under HP SIM. Remains disabled
for Predefined reports.

Edit

Executes a report.

Run Report

Enables users to email a report.

Email Report

Deletes a selected report. Only user created/defined
reports can be deleted.

Delete

Predefined reports

Predefined Reports are shipped with HP SIM. The reports are based on common user scenarios.
Predefined Reports are tied to existing system collections in HP SIM, for instance, "All Systems" or
"All Servers". Report results appear based on logged in user authorization of systems.

Select Reports

Enhanced Reports. The Enhanced Reports, Reports by Product page

appears.

Run Enhanced reports

Running reports executes an available report in the reporting engine. The generated report is
displayed in a new page when Run Report is clicked.

A generated report provides you with the report name, associated system collection, and report
run date and time in the following formats. You select the format before you run the report.

HTML (Recommended for viewing)

CSV

PDF

Select Reports

Enhanced Reports. The Enhanced Reports page appears. Select the report

that you want to run. Click Run Report.

New Enhanced reports

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.

An additional create new report option is to select the type of report to use. You can select the
following options in any combination.

Include Chart

Include Table

The report type graph supports three sub types.

Bar

Pie

Line (Trend)

The Include Chart section dynamically changes to display the selection items that are required to
create the corresponding report. Depending on the type of chart selected, additional details are
presented as follows.

Graph Title

The graph title is available for all chart types.

Footer

The footer is available for all chart types.

Standard reports

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