HP 3PAR System Reporter Software - Manual (Page 35)

2.7 Customizing the Reporting Format
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See 5.3.7 Format Selection (Web interface only) on page 5.45 for descriptions and options
available for formatting reporting data.
2.6 Customizing the Reporting Format
Although System Reporter provides a number of built-in controls for specifying the format of a
report, in some cases you may want to present the data using a different format that is not
available from the standard selection. In this case, you can save the data for the report using
the Comma-Separated-Values (CSV) format as an option that is accessible with the click of an
icon next to the heading of the report. You can then open the CSV formatted file in an
application (such as a spreadsheet) where it can then be charted or formatted as desired. If the
browser is set up to open files with a .csv extension in a spreadsheet application, this can be
done automatically.
2.7 Generating Email Alerts
You can configure System Reporter to send email alerts when certain metrics meet specified
conditions. For example, suppose you want to receive an email alert when any VLUN has an
average read service time of more than 100 ms in any high-resolution sampling interval. To do
this, all you need to do is fill in a form with the specified details and then submit the query.
See Configuring Rules for Email Alerts on page 7.9 for complete details on how to configure
email alerts.
2.8 Accessing Report Data using Web Queries
The querying mechanism employed by System Reporter is made available for specialized
customization of reports. For instance, instead of using the Excel client provided with System
Reporter, you can use web queries in an Excel spreadsheet to bring various report data into
your spreadsheets. As another alternative, you might like to view multiple standard reports
presented together in a single web page. You can do this by creating an html file that includes
multiple iframe elements, each of which includes a standard web report query.
See Chapter 8, Web Queries for details on how to instigate web queries.