3PAR System Reporter User’s Guide

System Reporter 2.8

◆At Time reports allow you to compare a large number of objects, defined in more complex ways, but only at a specific point in time. The objects are plotted along the X- axis.

◆Histogram At Time reports show the distribution of service times and IO sizes at a specific point in time.

◆Histogram vs Time reports show the distribution of service times and IO sizes over a period of time (time is along the X-axis).

■Time Selection. Selects the time or range of times when the report is to be generated.

■Object Selection. Selects the list of objects that are to be included in the reporting data. For example, you can select the VVs, ports and hosts for a VLUN.

■Format Selection. Selects the format of the report including whether the report should show charts and/or tables and the type and size of charts.

See Chapter 5, Accessing and Creating Reports for complete details on how to build customized reports.

2.5 Formatting Reports for Presentation

When building customized reports, you can specify how the reporting data is formatted for viewing by selecting the appropriate table or type of chart. You can choose from the following chart types:

■Stacked Bars

■Staked Vertical Bars

■Stacked Area

■Bars

■Vertical Bars

In addition to choosing the type of chart that is best suited for the report being generated, you can also fine tune the presentation by selecting the position of the legend, choosing a time format and specifying how the units of storage measurement are represented (i.e., MBs, TBs, chunklets, etc.).

When using the Excel client to build reports, you have additional flexibility in the formatting of a report by modifying the datasheet and including customized columns.

2.6

Formatting Reports for Presentation