WebSphere Virtual Enterprise, Version 6.1.1
             Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows, z/OS


Creating and managing reports

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

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

  1. Open the Reports tab. You can access the Reports tab from multiple locations in the administrative console:
    • Runtime operations > Reports
    • Servers > All servers > server_name > Reports
      Restriction: The Reports tab is not available for on demand router (ODR) servers.
    • Servers > Dynamic clusters > dynamic_cluster_name > Reports
    • Servers > Clusters > cluster_name > Reports
    • Applications > All application > application_name > Reports
    • Operational policies > Service policies > service_policy_name > Reports
    .
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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...
  5. 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.




Related concepts
Runtime operations overview
Task management
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Preparing the hosting environment for dynamic operations
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Last updated: Oct 30, 2009 1:34:41 PM EDT
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