14 Running Reports

Depending on your license, Reporter may not be available. See the List of Features to determine if you have access to Reporter. The List of Features is accessible from the Documentation Center (Help

>Documentation Center in Storage Essentials). Global reports and custom reports are not included with HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition.

This chapter contains the following topics:

About Reporter, page 417

Accessing Reporter, page 435

Viewing Reports, page 435

Viewing Report Collectors for an Element, page 436

Refreshing a Report, page 437

Changing the Formatting of a Report, page 437

Opening a Report in a New Window, page 438

Maximizing the Screen Space for a Report, page 438

Filtering Data in Global Reports, page 438

Sending a Report by E-mail, page 439

Managing E-mail Schedules for Reports, page 440

Creating Custom Reports, page 444

About Reporter

Reporter provides a variety of detailed reports, such as dependency, event, and utilization reports for discovered elements. To view a report, click a report name in the tree in Reporter. The selected report appears in the right pane.

IMPORTANT: If the message The report does not contain any data is displayed, verify that the collector for the report is running. You may also want to verify that a collector is running if you believe the report is not displaying the latest information. Since data collectors gather the information for reports, if the collector is not running, its reports are not updated. See Managing Collectors for Reports” on page 203.

Available Reports

The management server provides reports that display performance information in a variety of formats:

HTML (Default) - The software displays the report in a Web page by default.

PDF - The software displays the report in Adobe Acrobat, a good option if you need to print the report. The software assumes you already have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. To obtain a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader, go to http://www.adobe.com.

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