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Foglight Capacity Management 5.7.7 - User Guide

Reports Tab

The Reports tab allows you to create, copy, and edit reports created from predefined templates. This tab provides the following sections:

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Tasks
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Recent Report History
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About Reports
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Reports

Tasks

From Tasks you can:

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Create New Report
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Copy Existing Report
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Edit Existing Report
Create New Report

The Create New Report wizard allows you to name reports, choose report templates, add required services, and select time ranges to tailor capacity management reporting requirements.

To create a new report:
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Click Create New Report.
The Create New Report wizard appears.
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In the Scheduled Report box, type the name of the report.
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From the Report list, selected the required template.
For details on using Foglight™ for VMware report templates or using Foglight™ for Hyper-V report templates, see the Foglight for VMware User and Reference Guide or the Foglight for Hyper-V User and Reference Guide.
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From the changeAlarm drop-down, select the required alarm parameters.
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Edit—displays the Edit-time Range dialog.
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Time Range Type—sets the time range type.
Last N—the last type of time range used (hour, day, week, etc.).
Calendar Aligned—the time range aligns itself with the previous time ranges.
Custom—displays a calendar allowing you to set a customized time range period.
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Unit—sets the unit of the time range (Year, Month, Week, Day, Hour, Minute, Second).
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Number—sets the time range length.
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Granularity—sets the granularity level of the time range, for example 5 minutes.
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Change to Null—changes the time range to a null value.
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Click Next.
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Scheduled Report—name assigned to the report.
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Report—report template chosen in the previous dialog.
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Schedule—when the report runs.
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Retained—the number of reports retained.
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Enabled—enables the report to run on its selected schedule.
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Report—allows you to select a report format: PDF, Excel, or XML.
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Email—email addresses are separated by a comma; do not use semi-colons. To receive the reports in email, configure the email server parameters in the Administration dashboard (Administration > Setup & Support > Email Configuration).
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Click Finish.
The report is generated and is listed in the reports table.
Copy Existing Report

The Copy Existing Report option allows you to create a new scheduled report by copying an existing one and changing one or more of the report settings.

To copy an exisiting report:
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Click Copy Existing Report.
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Click the required report.
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Click Next.
Make the required report changes.
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Click Finish.
Edit Existing Report

This view allows you to edit report settings, for example report schedule or format.

To edit an existing report:
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Click Edit Existing Report.
The Edit Existing Reports view appears.
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Select the required report.
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Click Next.
The Current Report Settings view appears.
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Make the required changes.
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Click Finish.
The updated report settings is displayed in the reports table.

Recent Report History

The Recent Report History table lists all of the the most recently run reports.

To view a report:
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Click on the required report.
The Opening dialog appears.
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Select the default viewing application or select Other to view the report in another application.
Click Save File.
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Click OK.
Figure 6. If opened, view the report
If saved, navigate to and save the report in the required location.

About Reports

This section displays tooltip help topics on the creation of capacity management reports.

Figure 7. About Reports help topics

Figure 8. Clicking on a topic displays the tooltip

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