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4 Accessing and Creating Reports
System Reporter provides quick reports, scheduled reports, and custom reports that are specifically
tailored for your operating environment. The menu selections and controls available for creating
custom reports from either the web interface or the Excel client are functionally identical, so the
information in this chapter applies to both with explanations provided for any minor variations.
NOTE: For information on using a Web browser to edit database sampling policies, adding or
removing storage servers from the database, scheduling reports or optimizing storage utilization
with the optional Adaptive Optimization feature, see “Configuring the System Reporter Policy
Settings” (page 113).
Accessing Quick Reports
Quick reports provide predefined reports that you can generate quickly by choosing the Quick
Report tab from the System Reporter Main Menu Window and then selecting one of the customized
reports from the list of directories as shown in Figure 23 (page 64). Reports are provided for all
the systems that are currently configured for System Reporter (available by expanding the All
Systems branch) and from individual systems (available by expanding a particular system’s branch)
and encompass sampling over a given period of time.
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