This section gives you an overview of built-in reports. Report Manager allows you to work with many built-in reports and provides information about the storage utilization, protection, backup plan compliance, jobs, and audit information.
This is a sample built-in report that presents the data related to a back-up job summary for all the backup/recovery appliances added to the Report Manager.
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Generate a built-in report
To run a built-in report and view it, follow these steps:
To open a report in the report viewer, select View and Repository.
Locate the desired report in the repository. Select the Report Category and expand it. The available Report Categories are as follows:
Click the report name, or right-click the report name and select Run. In the repository, you can also click the report row and select Run from the toolbar.
The report opens in the Report Viewer. In the Display pane, there is a set of Input Controls in the left panel. Select an Input Control and then click the Apply button.
When the filters are modified subsequently, Report Manager will generate the report with the new parameters after you click Apply.
Use the Save button to save your filter option selections.
The saved options can be reused from a single select drop-down available at the top of the Options panel.
The saved options can also be reused by selecting the options on the Repository page. The options are displayed after you click on the arrow located in the left corner of the report.
Every report footer of the report displays the last successful data synchronization timestamp for all the selected appliances.
Work with report manager charts
When working with charts, you can perform the following actions to customize the display:
Change chart types
Use these instructions to change a chart type:
Click on the gear icon available in the top-left corner of the chart.
A pop-up dialog appears with all the available chart types.
Select the desired chart type you wish the chart to be rendered.
Filter charts
To filter the data in a chart using legend:
Click on the legend to hide the corresponding values that the legend represents.
Re-clicking on the legend displays the hidden values.
Zoom in and zoom out of charts
Use these instructions to zoom in and zoom out of the charts:
Click and drag the mouse pointer over the plotted graph to zoom in on that particular plot area.
When you zoom in, the Zoom Out button is enabled over the graph to zoom out.
Understand relative dates in the report manager
The relative date range feature allows you to run or schedule reports periodically without having them altered every time. To do this, use the following format:
<+/-> indicates whether the time span occurs before or after the chosen date.
indicates the number you want to include in the filter.
Following are the use cases of when and how to use relative dates:
| Use Case | Start Date Parameter | End Date Parameter |
|---|---|---|
| Run the report for the last 24 Hours from the current time. | DAY-1 | DAY |
| Run the report for the last Two Days from the current time. | DAY-2 | DAY |
| Run the report for the last N Days from the current time. | DAY-N | DAY |
| Run the report for the last One Week from the current time. Use this option to schedule weekly reports. | WEEK -1 | WEEK |
| Run the report for the last N Weeks from the current time. | WEEK-N | WEEK |
| Run the report for the last One Month from the current time. Use this option to schedule monthly reports. | MONTH -1 | MONTH |
| Run the report for the last N Months from the current time. | MONTH-N | MONTH |
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Run the report in incremental manner (for example, the first day of the
week or month . Using this example, you can view:
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WEEK-1/MONTH-1 | DAY |
You can also use QUARTER, SEMI, and YEAR keywords.
Customizing built-in reports
In order to modify the built-in reports to meet your specific requirements, use the built-in report customization feature. Use these instructions to customize any flat tabled built-in report:
Open any of the built-in reports.
Click on any of the column headers in a tabular report.
Use the Up and Down arrows to sort the column data.
Use the upside down funnel to filter rows, which can be included or excluded in the report output. The filter works for string, numeric, and date fields.
Use the table icon either to hide a column that contains information you do not require or to change the column formatting. The formatting option allows you to change the font, color, background color, and alignment of both the header and the values. You can also change the header text.
Use the conditional formatting options to highlight issues with different colors or fonts.
Once you make all your changes, save the report with a new name as shown below. It is important that you do not save your customized report with the same name as one of Report Manager's built-in reports.
Customize report parameters
Once the report customization is done, you can create a named set of parameters for that particular report. The saved parameters will override the previous parameters or default behavior.
Example:
If you want to run a report that only displays file system applications, follow these steps:
De-select "--ALL--" from the Select Application Types drop-down list and select File System.
Click Save and provide a name in the Save Values pop-up dialog.
The saved list is available in a drop-down at the top of the Input Control panel.
When you return to the repository, you can see an arrow control on the left-hand side of the report. Clicking the arrow shows you the named parameter set that you created. You can click on the name to get the customizations.
Handling long-running reports
In order to handle long-running reports, you may ignore the default parameter settings. This option is useful when the default settings cause the report to take a long time to render.
Use these instructions to disable the default parameter settings:
Right-click on the report name from the repository and click Edit:
In the Controls & Resources section, enable the Always Prompt option and click the Submit button.