System Reporter 2.8

3PAR System Reporter User’s Guide

1 Introduction

This guide provides the information you need to install and use 3PAR® System Reporter to monitor performance, create charge back reports, and plan storage resources for 3PAR InServ® Storage Servers. An optionally licensed component called Adaptive Optimization is also included with System Reporter that can be used to monitor and automatically optimize utilization of storage resources. If you do not have a licence for Adaptive Optimization, the monitoring and system reporting features are still accessible but the optimization capabilities are inactivated.

1.1 Audience

This user’s guide is for system and storage administrators who monitor and direct system configurations and resource allocation for 3PAR InServ® storage systems.

1.2 User Interfaces

The 3PAR InForm® Operating System (InForm OS) has two user interfaces: the 3PAR InForm Command Line Interface (CLI) and the 3PAR InForm Management Console (IMC). You can use the IMC or the InForm CLI to monitor storage servers and access statistics. From the IMC or InForm CLI, you also can export table data to a.CSV

(Comma-Separated Variable) file and then use Microsoft® Excel® or similar software to import that file. However, to generate reports directly in Microsoft Excel and to access historical information, you must use the system reporting tools described in this guide.

Introduction 1.1