HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 56)

Select Reports
→Enhanced Reports. The Enhanced Reports, Reports by Product page appears.
Run Enhanced reports
Running reports executes an available report in the reporting engine. The generated report is displayed in
a new page when Run Report is clicked.
A generated report provides you with the report name, associated system collection, and report run date
and time in the following formats. You select the format before you run the report.
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HTML (Recommended for viewing)
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XML
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CSV
New Enhanced reports
A report configuration is a customer-defined set of preferences that pulls specified criteria from the database
tables and places it in a report in the specified format. The report configurations can be saved and used to
run a report at a later date with live data.
An additional create new report option is to select the type of report to use. You can select the following
options in any combination.
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Include Chart
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Include Table
The report type graph supports three sub types.
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Bar
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Pie
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Line (Trend)
The Include Chart section dynamically changes to display the selection items that are required to create
the corresponding report. Depending on the type of chart selected, additional details are presented as
follows.
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Graph Title The graph title is available for all chart types.
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Footer The footer is available for all chart types.
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X-axis The X-axis is available for a bar or line chart.
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Y-axis The Y-axis is available for a bar or line chart.
The Include Table option allows the selection of the column fields and order to be displayed in the table
of the generated report.
You can save the report configuration for future use or generate a one-time report.
Editing Enhanced reports
Only custom reports can be edited.
The details from the opened report are pre-populated in the text fields. The Edit button is only enabled for
custom reports under Systems Insight Manager
E-mailing reports
E-mailing reports enables you to schedule a report to be run at a specified time and sent through e-mail. You
can schedule a report to be run periodically or once. Select from the following options to run the report.
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Select Run when the central management server is started if you want the report to run when the
central management server is started.
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Select Run now if you want to run the report immediately.
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Select Disable this task if you want to disable the report at any time.
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