•”Designing Custom Reports” on page 445

•”Integrating Custom Reports” on page 454

•”Detailed Schema Information” on page 456

•”Views from Previous Releases” on page 489

IMPORTANT: You must install Report Designer before you can create custom reports. Obtain a copy of Report Designer from your sales professional. Follow the installation instructions that accompany it.

About Creating Custom Reports

To create customized reports, you need a program for creating reports, such as Report Designer. Use Report Designer to create customized reports on the management server. Report Designer links to the database of the management server, so you can view real-time data in your customized reports. Once you are satisfied with the customized reports, you can merge them onto the management server so they are accessible from the management server console.

The following figure shows how Report Designer fits into the reporting architecture. Use Report Designer to create the reports. Then, deploy the reports on the management server.

Figure 67 Report Architecture

When you create reports, you can use pre-existing schema materialized views. A materialized view is a snapshot of data, from the database, created from a query. Report Designer refers to these materialized views as tables. Materialized views are refreshed based on its collector's schedule for

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