HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management Report Optimizer Software 6.0 Contexts Guide (October 2008)

User Guide 21
Example Use Cases
This section provides example use cases to illustrate the process of creating new reports. Each use
case describes the user goal and the steps to create the desired report. This section focuses on the
steps related to selecting the appropriate classes, objects, contexts, and functions to create specific
reports. It is not a goal of this document to describe details such as customizing report titles and
formatting, or the steps to create a simple report; these topics are documented elsewhere.
Conventions used in this section:
All objects in the SRM Report Optimizer universe are contained within a class. In some cases, an
object is contained within a top-level class, and in other cases it is necessary to expand one or
more sub-classes within a top-level class to find a specific object.
In describing how to select the classes of objects to be included in a report, this chapter uses the
following convention:
Class > [Subclass1] > [Subclass2] > … [SubclassN]
Where:
• Class represents the name of the top-level class, such as Host or Storage System
• [Subclass1], [Subclass2], and [SubclassN] represent the names of one or more subclasses
containing the specified object (where applicable). Examples of sub-classes include Host > Host
Volumes and Storage System > Storage System Volumes.
This section contains the following topics:
• Use Case 1: Reporting Allocated, Mounted, and Used Storage on page 21
• Use Case 2: Creating a High-Level List of Managed Hosts on page 24
• Use Case 3: Reporting the Application-Specific Utilization for a Managed Application on
page 26
• Use Case 4: Reporting a Specified Number of Oldest Files for Each Volume in Each File Server
on page 31
• Use Case 5: Reporting NAS Information and Details for the Client host and Application on
page 35
• Use Case 6: Reporting Storage Tier Information, Hosts, and Storage Volumes on page 37
• Use Case 7: Reporting Media Utilization Trends over a Specified Period on page 40
• Use Case 8: Reporting all Managed Hosts without Cluster Hosts and Cluster Member Hosts on
page 43
• Use Case 9: Reporting Host capacity with Drill-down to Host Volumes on page 45
• Use Case 10: Reporting Top N EVA Performance. on page 50
Use Case 1: Reporting Allocated, Mounted, and Used Storage
User Goal - Create a report showing:
• the total amount of storage allocated to a specific host
• how much of the allocated storage is mounted