With reports, you can view the performance of your virtualized
environment. You can view statistics such as availability, response
time, traffic, throughput, and so on.
Before you begin
- Your servers, clusters, applications, and so on must be running
to display data in the charts.
By default, runtime operations reports use
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) charts. Microsoft Internet Explorer
does not have an SVG viewer installed by default. You can install
the SVG viewer plug-in or update the reports preferences to display
JPEG images. To update the reports preferences, click Runtime
Operations > Reports > Reports Preferences. Edit the Default
Chart Format field.
About this task
Reports are charts that show runtime data. You can use
this data to monitor your environment, and take correctional actions
when necessary.
Procedure
- Open the Reports tab. You can access
the Reports tab from multiple locations in the administrative
console:
Restriction: The Reports tab is not available
for on demand router (ODR) servers.
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- Act on operational alerts. Operational alerts
display the status of resources in your environment. The name of the
specific resource is highlighted so that you can go to the configuration
panel or view the chart for that resource to take corrective actions.
- Configure report and chart preferences. Expand Reports
preferences. The preferences are global and apply to any new charts
you create. However, these preferences do not change the preferences
on any existing charts. To change the preferences for an existing
chart, click Preferences on the chart.
- Add a new chart. Click Open a New Chart
Tab. A new tab opens with a blank chart. Click Add Data... to
specify the data set and metrics that you want to monitor. If you
accessed the Reports tab through the Runtime operations > Reports panel,
you can specify the scope of the chart. Click Change Scope...
- Create, access, and remove chart groups. Chart
groups are global and can be accessed from any Reports tab.
- Create: If you have a specific set of charts in the tabs
that you want to save, then type a name in Save current group of
chart tabs configuration as a chart group, and click Save.
- Access: To access the chart group from any reports panel
later, go to Saved chart groups, and click the name of the
chart group.
You can also open a chart in a
new window, so that you can continue doing other tasks in the administrative
console while still monitoring your chart. Click View Chart in
New Window. To return the chart from the new window to the chart
group, click View Chart in Chart Group.
- Remove: To remove a chart group, select the chart group
from Saved chart groups, and click Remove chart group.
What to do next
If your operational alerts are taking
a long time to load, you can configure custom properties to change
how the alerts are loaded while the cache initializes.
You can configure custom properties to specify
the maximum number of data sets that are displayed or to limit
what cell information is displayed.