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While Uptime Infrastructure Monitor has a powerful reporting function, you may want to generate reports that use a specific set of data and/or put that data into a custom report format. Using Microsoft Excel, you can take data from the up.time UIM DataStore and use that data to create a report that specifically suits your requirements.
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Before you begin
If you have not already done so, install the MySQL ODBC driver and create a data source to access the up.time UIM DataStore. This article assumes you have performed these steps. For more information, see the see Connecting to the up.time UIM DataStore via ODBC Knowledge Base article.
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Retrieving
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UIM data in Excel 2010: Creating a
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new database connection
To Follow these steps to establish the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor DataSource as an external data source for use in Excel 2010:
- Start Microsoft Excel 2010.
- # Open the Data Connection Wizard : click on Data on by going to the menu bar, click on and then clicking Data > From Other Sources, then click > From Data Connection Wizard.
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The Data Connection
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- wizard appears
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- Select ODBC DSN as the type of data source you want to use to make a connection, and then click click Next.
- In the next Wizard step, select the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor UIM ODBC data source, and then click click Next. The name of the data source in the list is the name you gave the
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- UIM DataStore when
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- In the next step, select a database and specific table from the data source:.
The database name you select is the name you gave to the
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- UIM DataStore when
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- control panel. The database table you select depends on the type of
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- UIM data you want to import into Excel (in this example, we are importing aggregate performance data).
- In the final Wizard step, remember the Friendly Name assigned to this connection profile, then click Finish to save the database connection profile.
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Now that you
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created an Office database connection (.odc) file for the
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UIM database and specified table, you
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can use this existing connection to perform new database queries in future Excel sessions (on the Data tab, in the Get External Data group, click Existing Connections, then select the connection by clicking the Friendly Name). When you begin to work with data using an existing connection, Excel
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prompts you with the Import Data dialog box, which you can use to modify your database query.
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When you create a connection to the
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UIM database for the first time, you
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are always
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prompted with
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the Import Data
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dialog box; this dialog box is described in the next section.
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Retrieving
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UIM data in Excel 2010: Querying an
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established database connection
Follow these steps to import data from an Uptime Infrastructure Monitor DataSource into Excel 2010:
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Once your queried data is in an Excel sheet, you can work with it as required. The example below is an inserted table displaying CPU usage highs, lows and averages for all monitored systems over the last seven days.
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Retrieving UIM data in Excel 2007: Creating a
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new database connection
Follow these steps to establish the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor DataSource as an external data source for use in Excel 2007:
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Note: Now that you have created an Office database connection (.odc) file for the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor database and specified table, you will be able to use this existing connection to perform new database queries in future Excel sessions (on the Data tab, in the Get External Data group, click Existing Connections, then select the connection by clicking the Friendly Name). When you begin to work with data using an existing connection, Excel will prompt you with the Import Data dialog box, which you can use to modify your database query.
When you create a connection to the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor database for the first time, you will always be prompted with the Import Data
dialog box; this dialog box is described in the next section.
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Retrieving UIM data in Excel 2007: Querying an
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established database connection
Follow these steps to import data from an Uptime Infrastructure Monitor DataSource into Excel 2007:
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- Click OK.
- If you are prompted with the ODBC 3.51 Connector dialog box, ensure your user and password information is correct, then click OK.
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Once your queried data is in an Excel sheet, you can work with it as required. The example below is an inserted table displaying CPU usage highs, lows and averages for all monitored systems over the last seven days.
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Retrieving UIM data in Excel 2003
Follow these steps to establish the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor DataSource as an external data source for use in Excel 2003:
- Start Microsoft Office Excel 2003.
- On the Data menu, click Import External Data, then click New Database Query.
- The Choose Data Source dialog box is displayed:
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