Deleting advanced reporting data, Saving and e-mailing report data files – Dell PowerVault ML6000 User Manual

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Chapter 6 Advanced Reporting

Working With Advanced Reporting Reports

Dell PowerVault ML6000 User’s Guide

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You can see how many records were loaded from the log files for this

report by looking at the Report Data section of the report configuration

page. A note says “XX records read,” where XX is the number of records

(see

Figure 16

).

Deleting Advanced
Reporting Data

6

In some circumstances, you may wish to delete the information contained

in the log files used to build the advanced reports. To do this, click the

Delete

button in the Report Data section of either report configuration

page. This deletes the data for

both

the Drive Resource Utilization report

and the Media Integrity Analysis report.

Figure 16 Report Data Buttons

Saving and E-mailing
Report Data Files

6

You cannot save the report as it appears on the screen, but you can save

or e-mail the report data as a comma-separated values (.csv) file. You can

then import the .csv data into a spreadsheet program and manipulate it to

create your own reports for analysis. The .csv file contains all of the data

in the log file that falls within the date range you specify.

1

Generate a report.

2

Scroll down to the bottom of the report viewing screen to a box titled

Retrieve the Report Data File

.

3

To save the report data as a .csv file, click

Save

.

Caution:

Once you delete the data in the log files, you cannot get it

back. The

Reload

button does NOT retrieve deleted data! It

is recommended that you save all the data for both the

Drive Resource Utilization report and the Media Integrity

Analysis report before deleting the data (see

Saving and E-

mailing Report Data Files

).

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