Systems Insight Manager 6.1 User Guide

14 Reporting in Systems Insight Manager
Standard reports
Standard reports are shipped with Systems Insight Manager. The reports are based on common user scenarios
and do not need any additional configuration or enablement. These reports are installed, configured, and
available for use as soon as Systems Insight Manager is installed and configured. Standard reports are tied
to existing systems collections in Systems Insight Manager, for instance, All Systems or All Servers. Report
results appear based on logged in user authorization of systems.
Standard reports are available by navigating to the Manage Reports page .
New 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.
You must have administrative or operator rights to create, save, edit, copy, or delete report configurations.
Users with user rights can run the authorized report configurations only.
If User 1 with administrative rights generates a report and a private collection, then User 2 with administrative
rights is allowed to generate a report using the report configuration and private collection that User 1 created.
User 2 is allowed to edit, save, and delete the report configuration but cannot delete the private collection
created by User 1.
The create new report wizard helps you to create a new report and add it to Systems Insight Manager
reports. This option is only available for Systems Insight Manager.
You can save the report configuration for future use or generate a one-time report.
Select Reports→New Report..., the Step 1: Select Target Systems page appears.
Managing reports
The Manage Reports feature provides you with the following options:
• Run Report A generated report provides you with the following information:
• Report name
• Associated system collection
NOTE: The Associated system collection information does not appear if there is no collection
selected to run the report.
• Report run date and time
Format for generated report:
• HTML (Recommended for viewing) Enables viewing an existing report in HTML format.
• XML Enables viewing an existing report in XML format.
• CSV Enables viewing an existing report in CSV format.
• Copy Systems Insight Manager enables you to copy report configurations from an existing report
configuration. You can edit the newly copied configurations to create a new report.
NOTE: You must be signed in to Systems Insight Manager with administrative rights or operator rights
to copy report configurations. If you are not signed in with administrative or operator rights, the copy
option is not available.
• New Enables you to create a new report and add it to Systems Insight Manager reports. This option
is only available for Systems Insight Manager.
You can save the report configuration for future use or generate a one-time report.
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