HP EVA4000/6000/8000 and EVA4100/6100/8100 Updating Product Software Guide (XCS 6.250) (5697-1716, February 2012)

2. Select the fabric for which you want to create a report from the Choose switch group for data
collection. Check Collect data for all component groups to create reports for all the fabrics.
3. Clear Capture Performance data. If you want to gather switch performance data, leave this
option selected. Selecting this option will increase the amount of time required to collect the
switch data.
4. Select Mask IP Address check box if you do not want to send the IP address information (in
the raw report) outside your network.
5. Select a format for the report by selecting HTML Report, Microsoft Excel Report, or both.
6. Under Data Collection, click Start. On successful completion of data collection, a message is
displayed in the message area. If you selected the option to collect switch performance data,
it will take at least 10 additional minutes to collect the data. When data collection is complete,
the raw data is sent to HP. (You can view the collected files that are sent to HP in the Raw
Data screen that displays before the raw data is sent to HP.) The report is processed and the
formatted report returned to you within one business day.
7. When you receive the formatted report, save it to a temporary location on the management
server.
Obtaining a report manually
To obtain the SMTP server for the e-mail address you entered in the Customer Details window,
select the Automatically e-mail the collected raw data on completion check box. If SAN Visibility
does not find the SMTP server or if you want to create a report manually, follow these steps:
1. Click Data Collection.
2. Select the fabric for which you want to create a report from Select a switch group for data
collection. Select the Collect data for all switch groups check box to create reports for all the
fabrics.
3. Clear the Capture Performance data. To collect switch performance data, leave this option
selected. Selecting this option will increase the amount of time required to collect the switch
data.
4. Select the Mask IP Address check box if you do not want to send the IP address information
(in the raw report) outside your network.
5. Select a format for the report by selecting HTML Report or Microsoft Excel Report, or both.
6. Under Data Collection, click Start. If you selected the option to collect switch performance
data, it will take 10 additional minutes to collect the data.
7. Select Default Mail Client in the Launch Mail Client panel. The location of the report is displayed
in the message body of the default mail client launched.
8. Manually attach the raw report created with subject line: “HP Essentials SAN Visibility Report
Request”. Send the report to the e-mail address: [e-mail]. An automated email
response is returned confirming receipt of the raw data file. Click Close.
The data is processed and the formatted report returned to you within one business day.
9. When you receive the formatted report, save it to a temporary location on the management
server or any server on which SAN Visibility is installed. A sample report is shown in
Figure 5 (page 20).
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