Selecting the sort order, Viewing an existing report in xml format, Viewing an existing report in csv format – HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual

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Selecting the sort order

The Reporting feature enables you to sort the data after it displays in the Report Results page.

Ascending Order.

Click the column heading you want to sort by once. The data queries in ascending

alphabetical order.

Descending Order.

Click the column heading you want to sort by twice. The data queries in

descending alphabetical order.

Viewing an existing report in XML format

1.

Select Reports

Manage Reports.

2.

Select the report you want to view.

3.

Under Format for generated report, select XML.

4.

Click Run Report. The XML report appears.

Viewing an existing report in CSV format

1.

Select Reports

Manage Reports.

2.

Under Report Name, select the report you want to view.

3.

Under Format for generated report, select CSV.

4.

Click Run Report. If the browser system has no application associated with .CSV files, then the .CSV
file is displayed in the browser window. If you have an application associated with .CSV files, then the
.CSV

file is displayed in the specified application.

If you are using Internet Explorer and an application such as Excel is installed on the browser system
and the .CSV file extension is associated with that application, the Save As dialog box appears. Click
Save

.

5.

Name the file, and in the Save as type field, select a format in which to save the file from the dropdown
list. Click Save. The report is saved.

Printing an existing report

From 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, see the HP-UX or Linux manpage by entering man mxreport at the command line. See

“Using command line interface commands”

for more information on the command and a link to the manpage.

Related procedures

Adding a report

Editing a report

Copying a report

Related topic

Reporting

Adding a report

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 run the authorized report configurations only.

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