Reporting Groups - Overview

 

Reporting Groups allow you to group the same type of resources or objects and generate reports on these groups of homogenous objects. You can create two different reporting groups:

 

 

You can place an object or resource in more than one reporting group. A reporting group can be part of another reporting group. You can define a monitoring group to be part of a reporting group. In this case, the monitoring group will be a subset of the reporting group. However, a reporting group cannot be a part of a monitoring group.

 

To create a new reporting group:

 

  1. Expand the Reporting > Groups nodes of the function tree.

  2. Right-click the type of reporting group you want to create. A pop-up menu appears.

  3. Select Create <type of group> Group from the pop-up menu. The content pane displays a window for defining the reporting group.

  4. Define information about the reporting group in the content pane.

  5. Click to save the reporting group definition.

 

To edit an existing reporting group:

 

  1. Expand the Reporting > Groups section of the function tree.

  2. Click the name of the reporting group you want to edit. The content pane displays information about that reporting group.

  3. Edit the values defined for the reporting group as desired.

  4. Click to save the updated reporting group definition.

Related Topics

RDBMS Support

Working with Reports

Selecting a Report

Selection Tab

Selecting Resources Upon Which to Report

Filtering the Resources that Appear in a Report

Generating a Report

Sorting Columns

Drilling Down a Report Row

Generating a Report Chart

Navigating Tabs

Trending with Historical Data

Printing Reports or Charts