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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.
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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.
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3. Click OK. Report Manager generates the report and then displays it.
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Report Manager keeps the properties for each report in the Performance Management Database. You can view and modify these parameters in the Properties dialog box.
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Click Remove to remove an address from the Address list.
To set report properties1. From
- From the Reports Table, select a report and click Properties. The Properties dialog box is displayed.
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- Set the properties in the General, Time Frame, Filters, and Email tabs, according to your preferences.
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- Click OK.
The new settings are used the next time the report is generated.
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Report Manager runs reports, by default, on a daily basis at 6:00 AM, following the Performance Management Database daily summary process. You can modify the default schedule of a selected report through the Scheduling dialog box.
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2. Set the schedule for the selected report and click OK.
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Each report is assigned with a set of properties and schedule. If you want to have more than one report of the same set (Profile, Exception, and so on) and the same entity, but with different properties and schedule, you can create a copy of the report, and then modify the properties and schedule of the report copy. See Setting report properties on page 23 and Setting the schedule of a report generation on page 23.
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If you have selected the Tier of the original report in the previous step, you can include the report copy either to the original report set or to the Customized set.
5. Click OK.
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Report Manager enables advanced users who are familiar with the data logic of the Tier to create customized reports, which include data that is not provided in the pre-defined reports.
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The Performance Management Database stores data in different levels of granularity: Time slice, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, and Monthly. This enables you to present a detailed view and progressively higher-level view of the same data in your customized report.
2. Select the fields you want to view in your report. The Data Tree on the left pane represents the fields of the monitored Tiers stored in the Performance Management Database. Each data field is mapped to an expression in the database, for example, Timestamp is mapped to a time of an event, and Program is mapped to a program name. From the Data Tree, select the required field and click the arrow near the Report Fields area. The field is added to the Report Fields area. Repeat this step as for every field you want to view.
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6. To modify the order of the conditions, select the required condition from the Selected Instances Table and click UpArrow or DownArrow (located to the right of the Selected Instances Table).
Viewing and editing the SQL SELECT statement of a query
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Report Manager generates the customized report using the query that you define in the Customized Report Data Selection page, and then displays the report in a Microsoft Excel file. The Microsoft Excel file consists of the following worksheets:• One
- One worksheet for each query that you have defined. These worksheets are protected so that no manual changes are allowed (Report Manager overrides these worksheets for each execution). The name of each worksheet is composed of the query name appended to the prefix FS-.
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- A worksheet named report-design, in which you can design the customized report. That is, creating charts, tables or any additional elements that describe the data included in the protected worksheets. In addition, you can create new worksheets with additional elements. Report Manager does not override these worksheets in each execution.
NOTE Verify that you do not name the new worksheet with the FS- prefix, because then it will disappear the next time that the report is run or edited.
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5. In Report Manager, in the Customized Report Data Selection page, click Save. Report Manager overrides the existing report.
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Report Manager enables you to configure various settings through the Settings menu, located at the Precise bar.
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