464CHAPTER 11: CREATING REPORTS

There are two lists as follows:

Available columns lists columns that can be included in the report. Select the column and click Include - > to add the column to the report.

Included columns — lists columns included in the report. Included columns will be used to compose a table for the Custom report and will be ordered from left to right as the list is ordered from top to bottom. For example, in the Add/Edit Report Type Wizard - Columns Step, Device Name will be the first column in the report. To remove a column from the report, select the column and click < - Exclude.

Once columns are included in a report, you can change the order the columns appear in by selecting an entry in the included columns and clicking Move Up or Move Down to change their position in the table. The topmost entry in the list appears on the far left of the table and so on.

The first column is used to sort the entire report so if you wish to sort the report by device name, for example, then ensure the Device Name column is first in the report.

The columns available for a report change depending on the selected Content, either Node Details or Link Details. Table 80 shows the available columns:

Table 80 Available Columns for Node Details

Column

Description

 

 

Comment

The comment associated with the device. See Properties

 

Dialog Box for a Node on page 236 for more information.

Device Name

The name of the device, which is one of the following: custom

 

name, DNS name, SNMP sysName, IP address, MAC address.

DeviceType

The type of the device, for example, 3Com Switch 3300

Extension Number

The extension number of the device. This only applies to phones

 

managed by an NBX call processor. If there is not an extension

 

number for the device i.e. it is not a phone, then this column

 

will have N/A in it.

Hardware Version

The hardware version of the device e.g. 01.01.01. This is usually

 

only obtained for 3Com devices. If the hardware version is not

 

available then N/A is displayed in this column.

IP Address

The IP address of the device, or Unknown if it is not known.

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