This page last changed on Apr 20, 2010 by mmcgarry.

Reporting

Available only in HQ Enterprise

This screen allows users to generate all available reports in HQ. The report templates come predefined by HQ, and users simply select a template and provide any necessary input. (Read a description of the report templates.) Customers can develop their own report templates and make them available on this screen. All reports are generated in real time; there is no scheduling, no asynchronous generation of reports.

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Tasks Available on This Screen

On this screen, users can do one thing: generate a report.

To generate a report:

  1. Click the name of a report template in Select a report.
  2. In "Report Options," provide any additional information necessary to generate the report.
    HQ automatically displays in this section the parameters associated with the selected report.
    If a report requires a group parameter, then, for reports involving specific resource types, only compatible groups of that resource type are available. For all non-resource-type-specific reports, all groups defined in HQ are available for selection.
  3. Select a format for the report in Export the report as.
  4. Click
    HQ now generates and displays the report. If users want to store the report, they should save it to their own computer.
    HTML Report Displayed in the Same Window
    If the report format is HTML, the report will be displayed in the same window that HQ is running in. Therefore, when finished with viewing the report, go back; don't close the window.

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Looking at the Reports

The PDF- and HTML-formatted reports provide a few extra features:

  • All hostnames and alerts listed in the reports are linked back to the "Current Health" screen and the "Alerts List" screen for the resource, respectively.
  • The Hyperic HQ image at the top left links to the "Reporting" screen.
  • The icon at the top right links to the Reporting Overview help page.

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Navigating via the Masthead Menu

Main screens in Hyperic contain a masthead menu. Users can navigate to the following parts of HQ using this menu:

Dashboard Displays the Dashboard, the starting screen in HQ, which displays information about resource health, recent alerts, recently performed auto-discovery scan, and control actions
Resources Click the menu name to access either Browse (takes users to the Browse Resources screen, where they can locate and navigate through information about all managed resources), Currently Down (takes users to the Currently Down screen, where they can look at all managed resources that are unavailable), Nagios Availability (available only when Nagios is installed), or Recently Viewed (provides a drop-down list of resources that the user has recently viewed. Selecting one of those resources takes the user to the Current Health screen for the resource).
Analyze Click the menu name to access Reporting * (presents the Reporting screen, from which reports can be generated), Alert Center (presents the Alert Center, which displays a deployment wide alert summary), or Event Center (presents the Event Center, which displays a deployment-wide event summary).
Administration Takes users (with "Administer Hyperic HQ Server Configuration" permissions) to the Administration screen, where they can manage the system-wide settings
Search
The Search box in the upper right of the Masthead allows you to search for HQ resources of any type and HQ users.

Search results appear after four characters are entered in the text box. Results will include the first 10 platforms, servers, services, and groups whose name includes the search string.

Double-click a resource in the list to navigate to its Resource page.

The masthead also displays the two most recently triggered alerts. Users can click the alert's time to be taken to the alert detail.

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