468CHAPTER 11: CREATING REPORTS

Figure 238 Add/Edit Report Type Wizard - Summary Step

 

Click Finish, to add the report type to the Custom Report Types dialog

 

box. Click OK to close the Custom Report Types dialog box. You can now

 

use your custom report type in the same way as any of the pre-defined

 

report types.

 

 

Examples

The following section gives some examples of how the Reporting feature

 

can be used. The feature-specific report types are covered in the chapter

 

for the relevant feature. See “Feature Reports Types” on page 454 for

 

further details.

Assessing Network

You have a number of additional servers to add to your network and you

Expansion Capability

want to find out if you have enough capacity in your network and to

 

work out which 3Com devices to connect them to.

 

You can get an assessment of how much network capacity you have by

 

charting available ports using the Save to CSV facility in Reports, in

 

combination with an external CSV tool such as Microsoft Excel. To do

 

this:

1Launch the Reports dialog box from Tools > Reports and select the Capacity report type.

2Click Generate Report.

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