Using advanced reports

Overview Copied

Reports are a very powerful and flexible feature of . Among other features, they allow you to:

Most reports also provide a drill-through capability to view data at successively lower levels of granularity. They can be run against different entity types (for example, physical servers, virtual machines, or hosts). Reports have configurable parameters to provide maximum flexibility, they can be saved and shared. Reports can be accessed from the Reporting accordion on the Capacity Planner project home screen.

For a full list of reports available in Capacity Planner, see Available reports.

Note

It is important to distinguish these advanced reporting features of Capacity Planner from the Infrastructure, Service and Scenario reports that can be created directly from the Baseline View and Forward Thinking scenario model. To learn more about them, see Infrastructure and Infrastructure and service reports and Scenario reports.

Interface Copied

The Report screen is divided into the following sections:

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Generate a report Copied

Reports that only have default parameters are generated as soon as you open the report. Most reports require additional parameters to be entered, although default values are provided for parameters that tend to be changed less often.

To generate a report, provide the required parameters and click the View Report button. Different reports require different parameters. For more information, see Report parameters.

Reports are not automatically saved when you view them. To be able to look at the same report again, do one of the following:

Pagination Copied

When a report is generated on screen, only the first page of a report is generated to reduce processing time. If there is more than one page, a question mark ? is displayed after the total number of pages indicating the length of the report is unknown. Use the Previous/Next Page and First/Last Page buttons to move between pages.

When you move to the final page of a report, the total page count is displayed on the toolbar and the question mark is removed.

Exporting a report automatically exports all pages.

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Export a report Copied

You can export a report in one of several file formats. This allows you to share the report output with anyone without direct access to Capacity Planner.

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Reports use a variety of layouts and styles. Not every export format works well with every report, and pagination may differ from the on-screen version of the report.

The available export formats are:

To export a report, click the export icon in the report toolbar and select the format from the drop-down list.

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Your browser initiates a download of the file.

Drill-through reports Copied

In most reports, you can drill through to view data at lower levels of granularity. The drill through mechanism shows the next summary level, for example drilling down from monthly summaries takes you to daily summaries. In most cases, it is possible to drill through to the lowest level of granularity (normally 5-minutely data). If there is no data with available lower level of granularity, you will not be able to drill through any further.

Every time you drill through, a new report is generated that displays data at a lower level of granularity. If you export this data, you get the lower lever grain in your export.

To go back to the main view of the report, click the Go back to the parent report button in the report toolbar.

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Search the report Copied

You can search the text of a report using the search field in the report toolbar. You can type in a name of the VM, a number, or any other text that can appear in any place of the report. This is especially useful if a report is very long and has multiple pages.

Save and rerun a report Copied

To be able to rerun a report with the same set of parameters, follow the steps:

  1. Input all parameters that you need to run the report.
  2. Provide a name for your report as the Save as Report Name parameter.
  3. View the report when all parameters are provided. This saves your report.

You can now access the report with your saved parameters in the following way:

If you change the Save as Report Name parameter of a saved report, a new saved report is created.

Manage saved reports Copied

To download the saved report in an XLS format or to delete it, open the list of all saved reports from the Reporting home page.

To share the saved report with users who have access to the same project, tick the Shared box.

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Add a new report type Copied

If you require a custom report to be added to your Capacity Planner project, please contact your representative.

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