HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

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14 Running Reports
Depending on your license, Reporter may not be available. See the List of Features to determine if
you have access to Reporter. The List of Features is accessible from the Documentation Center (Help
> Documentation Center in Storage Essentials). Global reports and custom reports are not included
with HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition.
This chapter contains the following topics:
• About Reporter, page 417
• Accessing Reporter, page 435
• Viewing Reports, page 435
• Viewing Report Collectors for an Element, page 436
• Refreshing a Report, page 437
• Changing the Formatting of a Report, page 437
• Opening a Report in a New Window, page 438
• Maximizing the Screen Space for a Report, page 438
• Filtering Data in Global Reports, page 438
• Sending a Report by E-mail, page 439
• Managing E-mail Schedules for Reports, page 440
• Creating Custom Reports, page 444
About Reporter
Reporter provides a variety of detailed reports, such as dependency, event, and utilization reports
for discovered elements. To view a report, click a report name in the tree in Reporter. The selected
report appears in the right pane.
IMPORTANT: If the message The report does not contain any data is displayed, verify
that the collector for the report is running. You may also want to verify that a collector is running if
you believe the report is not displaying the latest information. Since data collectors gather the
information for reports, if the collector is not running, its reports are not updated. See ”Managing
Collectors for Reports” on page 203.
Available Reports
The management server provides reports that display performance information in a variety of
formats:
• HTML (Default) - The software displays the report in a Web page by default.
• PDF - The software displays the report in Adobe Acrobat, a good option if you need to print the
report. The software assumes you already have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your
computer. To obtain a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader, go to http://www.adobe.com
.