System Reporter 2.8

3PAR System Reporter User’s Guide

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Overview and Features

This chapter provides a brief overview of the features and capabilities offered by System Reporter.

2.1 About 3PAR System Reporter

3PAR System Reporter monitors performance and the usage of storage resources and allows you to generate charts and graphs that report useful statistics for planning and configuring the operation of 3PAR InServ® Storage Servers.

System Reporter provides the following main features:

Convenient access to configuration options for selecting systems to include for reporting, specifying sampling parameters, scheduling reports, and generating alerts.

Extensive selection of reports for obtaining performance and storage utilization statistics on selected objects (i.e., hosts, ports, nodes, physical disks, virtual volumes, etc.).

Quick access to pre-defined reports that contain useful statistics for most common types of installations.

Scheduling of reports with predefined parameters that are initiated at predetermined times and can then be accessed when needed.

Customization of reports using the standard web interface, (or through the provided Excel client), that provide specifically selected and formatted reports for specified systems.

Overview and Features

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