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Report Manager displays generated reports in PDF format for pre-defined reports or in Microsoft Excel format for customized reports. You can view reports only in the Data view. The following procedure describes how to view reports that have already been generated at pre-scheduled times. See Creating customized reports on page 23 and Running a report on page 21.

To view a report1.    From

1. From the Tier Selection bar, select the Tier for which you want to view a report.

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1. From the Report Set Selector, select the Report Set that contains the required report. The Reports Table displays the reports of the selected report set.

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1. From the Reports Table, select the report you want to view and click View (or double-click the report). If the report is not yet generated or does not contain data (the Pages column indicates 0), Report Manager displays a message that allows you to rerun the report.

If the report is already generated and contains data (the Pages column indicates a number greater than 0) the report content is opened.

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Report Manager generates a report according to the settings of its properties. You can rerun a selected report with different property settings for that particular run. For example, you can rerun the report to include only specific counters and a specific Time Frame. See Setting report properties on page 22 and Introducing Report Manager reports on page 29.

To run a report1.    From

1. From a report view, click Rerun. The Properties for This Run dialog box is displayed. This dialog box contains similar tabs to the tabs of the report Properties dialog box (Description, General, Time Frame, and Filters).

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1. In the Properties for This Run dialog box, set the properties according to your preferences.
   These settings affect only the current run of the report and do not affect the default properties of the report.

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1. Click OK. Report Manager generates the report and then displays it.

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Setting report properties

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The Properties dialog box includes the following tabs:Description    This

• Description. This tab contains the report description (read only).

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• General. This tab includes parameters - specific to the selected report - that are neither time frame parameters nor filters. For example, you can specify the counters to include in the report and the number of entities to display.
• Time

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• Frame. This tab contains parameters that define the time periods assigned to the various elements of the report.

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• Filters. This tab includes parameters - specific to the selected report - that enables you to filter the data to include in the report, such as the instance filter and entity filter. A filter can include a list of wildcards, separated by commas, where a wildcard is a string, which may contain asterisks. The format used to filter Report Manager reports by instance is: InstanceName(ServerName). For example: ORA92 (hp2).

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• Email. This tab includes a list of addresses for emailing the selected report. Check the Email box to send copies of the selected report to the listed addresses.
  Type each address separately into the Address box and click Add to add the address to the Address list. The structure of the address is as follows: employee name@company address.
  Click Remove to remove an address from the Address list.

To set report properties

1. From the Reports Table, select a report and click Properties. The Properties dialog box is displayed.
2. Set the properties in the General, Time Frame, Filters, and Email tabs, according to your preferences.
3. Click OK.

The new settings are used the next time the report is generated.

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