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11 Generating reports
This chapter describes reports that are available for Insight Control.
Reports overview
The Systems Insight Manager reporting features enable you to generate many different types of reports. In
addition to offering predefined reports, you also can create user-defined custom reports, and reporting
features enable you to edit, copy, and delete any reports you create. All users with sign-in access to Systems
Insight Manager can generate reports.
You have the option to run reports based on a schedule (at a predefined time and frequency) and you have
the option to send the generated report to a predefined recipient through email.
Running reports
Table 11-1 “Reporting features”
lists the reporting features that are available from the CMS management
console GUI Reports menu item.
Table 11-1 Reporting features
Description
From the CMS console management GUI
Opens a report wizard that enables you to create a new report and add it
to the predefined Systems Insight Manager reports.
You can create a report based on events, operating system information,
processor, HP BladeSystem rack, and system license information.
The report data can be displayed in the form of a bar graph, line chart,
(trend), or pie chart.
The report can be generated in HTML (recommended for viewing), XML,
CSV, PDF, and TXT formats.
Reports
→New Report...
Enables you to create, copy, delete, modify or run reports from the data in
the CMS database.
Reports
→Manage Reports...
Enables you to compare up to four systems (with the same operating system)
to each other or to compare a single system to itself and observe changes
over time.
Reports
→Snapshot Comparison...
Enables you to run predefined reports for Systems Insight Manager and
Insight Control. See
“Predefined reports for Insight Control”
for the list of
predefined reports for Insight Control.
Reports
→Enhanced Reports...
See
for the list of power management reports that are
available.
Reports
→Power Management
See
for the list of performance management reports
that are available.
Reports
→Performance Management
Predefined reports for Insight Control
The Reports
→Enhanced Reports... menu item contains predefined reports for Systems Insight Manager
and Insight Control that are based on common user scenarios. The predefined reports feature is installed,
configured, and available for use as soon as Systems Insight Manager is installed and configured.
The following predefined reports are available for Insight Control
Application software running on server
Licensed and un-licensed servers per product
Licensed software run by each server
Modules in C-class enclosure
Modules in one or more Blade system C-class enclosure
Most frequent events
N Most frequent events
Servers and corresponding VMs
Servers running a particular version of system software
Servers with specific memory or disc drive capacity
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