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Creating, Viewing, and Deleting Channel Performance Reports
The Application Server database reporter allows you to connect to the Application Server
database and generate reports and accompanying graphs of channel performance statistics.
A sample workflow, starting with designing a report template and finishing with viewing a
report, is as follows:
Enabling and Disabling the Automatic Incident Resolution Function for
iC Reports
Enable this function if you would like to generate reports using any of the Availability default
report templates
1
. Disable this function only after you have finished using the Availability
Sample workflow: Channel Performance Reporting
1. If you plan to use any of the four Availability default report templates
1
in this workflow,
configure the Application Server’s SQL Event Log plugin to clear resolved incidents
automatically after 1 second (see
"Enabling and Disabling the Automatic Incident
Resolution Function for iC Reports" , on page 223).
1. The Availability default report templates are as follows: 10 Channels with Highest Availability Last
24 hours, 10 Channels with Highest Availability Last 7 days, 10 Channels with Lowest Availability Last
24 hours, 10 Channels with Lowest Availability Last 7 days
2. Distinguish the alarms associated with the desired channels from other alarms by building
a virtual alarm (see
"Creating a Virtual Alarm to Filter Out Non-Channel Alarms (iC Reports)" ,
on page 405).
3. Open Event Log Viewer on the Application Server whose database you would like a report
of (see
page 721 ).
4. Configure filtering criteria in the Log Viewer’s report fields to fine-tune the report
parameters.
See:
• "Filtering a Log Search Using Multiple Criteria" , on page 151
• "Filtering a Log Search using a Log’s Textual Elements as Criteria" , on page 156
5. Perform one of the following two tasks:
• Create a new report template to customize the filtering parameters of your reports, then
generate a report (see "Creating a Report Template" , on page 226).
• Select an existing report template to generate a report (see page 228 ).
6. If desired, display the report in a Web browser (see page 229 ).
7. If desired, download the report as a PDF file (see page 230 ).
8. If space is an issue on your Application Server database, and you no longer require the use
of any of the Availability default report templates, disable the SQL Event Log Plugin’s
automatic incident clearing functionality (see
"Enabling and Disabling the Automatic
Incident Resolution Function for iC Reports" , on page 223).
See also
For more information about iC Reports, see page 138 .