HP 3PAR System Reporter Software - Manual (Page 20)

2 Overview and Features
This chapter provides a brief overview of the features and capabilities offered by System Reporter.
About System Reporter
System Reporter monitors performance and the usage of storage resources and allows you to
generate charts and graphs that report useful statistics for planning and configuring the operation
of HP 3PAR Storage Systems.
System Reporter provides the following main features:
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Convenient access to configuration options for selecting systems to include for reporting,
specifying sampling parameters, scheduling reports, and generating alerts.
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Extensive selection of reports for obtaining performance and storage utilization statistics on
selected objects (i.e., hosts, ports, nodes, physical disks, virtual volumes, etc.).
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Quick access to pre-defined reports that contain useful statistics for most common types of
installations.
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Scheduling of reports with predefined parameters that are initiated at predetermined times
and can then be accessed when needed.
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Customization of reports using the standard web interface, (or through the provided Excel
client), that provide specifically selected and formatted reports for specified systems.
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Options for choosing the time and duration for the collection of reporting statistics which can
be initiated at a specific time, collected over a period of time, and/or compared between a
range of times.
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Options for viewing and comparing report information in a variety of formats through a
selection of charts and tables.
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Alerts that can be configured to send email notifications to a specified address when certain
reporting criterion are met.
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Support for customized formatting of report data via the Comma Separated Values (CSV) file
formatting standard for inclusion in web or Excel applications.
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Support for creating custom web or Excel reports using well documented Web queries.
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Access to the database schema for direct queries to the reporting data stored in the database
used by System Reporter.
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Inclusion of an optionally licensed component called Adaptive Optimization that can analyze
access rates for sub-volume level regions and move regions between tiers of storage for more
optimal and efficient storage utilization.
Configuring System Reporter Policy Settings
Although you can begin using System Reporter immediately after it has been installed to quickly
access reports, you may want to make some adjustments or set up some of the capabilities for your
particular operating environment by selecting the appropriate configuration options through the
Policy Settings.
The following configuration options are available from the Policy Settings:
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Sampling Policies -- Specifies the report sampling policies that determine sampling intervals,
how long reports are stored, when to perform database compaction, etc.
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InServ Systems -- Selects the HP 3PAR Storage Systems to include for sampling, report generation
and optional optimization. The systems are generally added during the installation, but you
can access this option to add or remove systems as needed.
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