Choosing a method for accessing reports, Creating customized reports – HP 3PAR System Reporter Software User Manual

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Alert Rules -- Used to add, modify and remove alert rules and to specify the parameters for
generating email reports.

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Scheduled Reports -- Used to add, modify, and remove scheduled reports for generation at a
specified time.

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Adaptive Optimization -- Configures the optionally licensed Adaptive Optimization components
that are used to monitor and optimize storage utilization.

See for details on how to configure the policy settings for your site.

Choosing a Method for Accessing Reports

There are three basic methods for accessing reports through System Reporter:

Quick Reports -- Allows you to immediate access a variety of pre-defined reports (created through
CGI programs) that are deemed useful for most installations. The reports are made available
through a menu tree that you expand and collapse to select the systems and options of interest.
For instance, one of the reports provides a comparison of the peak hourly system CPU utilization
for the past seven days for all systems while another compares the utilization of the most active
physical disks for a given system.

Scheduled Reports -- Allows you to view reports that were created at scheduled times based on
pre-selected parameters and stored in a reserved directory structure. You can either view the reports
via the web interface provided through System Reporter or you can copy the report subdirectories
to another area and view them there. Maintaining a report directory for scheduled reports allows
an administrator to limit the users who have access to each report directory. One example where
this may be useful is when multiple departments share an array. In this case, the administrator can
schedule various reports specifically designed for each department, place them in different report
directories, and then grant each department access to the relevant scheduled reports in their own
report directory.

Custom Reports -- Custom reports are more complex to generate because they allow for a great
deal of customization, but they are also very useful. You can select the resolution, the type of report,
and then specify which systems and domains are to be monitored for the reporting information
that is collected. You also have the choice of specifying how the information is to be formatted for
presentation through a selection of tables and graphs.

Creating Customized Reports

System Reporter provides a number of options for building customized reports as follows:

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Report Selection. Allows you to select from one of the reports shown in

Table 1 (page 21)

Table 1 Available Reports

Report Metrics Cross Reference

Description

Report Name

“Accessing Quick Reports” (page 103)

Displays summary
information.

Summary