HP System Reporter Media Kit, System Reporter E-Media Kit Choosing a Method for Accessing Reports

System Reporter 2.8 3PAR System Reporter User’s Guide

■Adaptive Optimization -- Configures the optionally licensed Adaptive Optimization components that are used to monitor and optimize storage utilization.

See Chapter 7, Configuring the System Reporter Policy Settings for details on how to configure the policy settings for your site.

2.3 Choosing a Method for Accessing Reports

There are three basic methods for accessing reports through System Reporter:

Quick Reports -- Allows you to immediate access a variety of pre-defined reports (created through CGI programs) that are deemed useful for most installations. The reports are made available through a menu tree that you expand and collapse to select the systems and options of interest. For instance, one of the reports provides a comparison of the peak hourly system CPU utilization for the past seven days for all systems while another compares the utilization of the most active physical disks for a given system.

Scheduled Reports -- Allows you to view reports that were created at scheduled times based on pre-selected parameters and stored in a reserved directory structure. You can either view the reports via the web interface provided through System Reporter or you can copy the report subdirectories to another area and view them there. Maintaining a report directory for scheduled reports allows an administrator to limit the users who have access to each report directory. One example where this may be useful is when multiple departments share an array. In this case, the administrator can schedule various reports specifically designed for each department, place them in different report directories, and then grant each department access to the relevant scheduled reports in their own report directory.

Custom Reports -- Custom reports are more complex to generate because they allow for a great deal of customization, but they are also very useful. You can select the resolution, the type of report, and then specify which systems and domains are to be monitored for the reporting information that is collected. You also have the choice of specifying how the information is to be formatted for presentation through a selection of tables and graphs.

Choosing a Method for Accessing Reports

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