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The Cluster Management Console provides a wizard that guides you through the steps for creating a new report job. You can create report jobs from sixteen predefined report types. After you choose a predefined report type, you can provide the job specifics, such as scheduling and which target objects serve as the subject of the report.
See About reporting.
The wizards that you use to create and modify report jobs offer many options for specifying a report job schedule. It is important to know exactly what information these options require and how to enter them using the wizard controls. Gaining familiarity with scheduling options enables you to fully exploit the flexibility of the scheduling feature. You may want to refer to these option descriptions during the first few times you do the following:
Note
Not all of the scheduling options are relevant to all report types and therefore might not appear when you schedule a report job.
The Schedule the Report option specifies whether or not you want to create a schedule for running the report job. If you want to set up a schedule, check the Schedule the Report check box. This action activates additional scheduling options. If you want to run a report only when desired and do not want to schedule it, leave this check box clear.
Effective date and time option
The Effective date and time option specifies the date you want the report schedule to become active. In the Effective date: box, click the calendar icon to display a calendar and then select an effective date. Depending on your selections, the starting date for the report schedule can be different, but the report will not run until after the effective date.
The Start Time option specifies the time at which you want the report to start running. Use the two drop-down menus to select the hour and minutes of the start time. On all dates that it runs, the report runs at this start time.
The Time Range option specifies the reporting time period. The resulting report includes the data (stored in the database) that was collected over that period of time.
You can specify any of the following options
Enter a number and then select hour, day, week, month, or year. This number and amount of time specify a time range, starting that amount of time ago, and ending now.
For example, the last 1 day is a time range starting 24 hours ago.
Select hour, day, week, month, or year to report on the current hour, day (today), week, month, or year.
Specify the From: and To: information for the specific period. You can choose to report on the events that take place on a certain day, at a certain time, or you can choose to report the events that take place on a certain day.
Uncheck this option if you do not want to include maintenance windows in the time range.
You can select one recurrence pattern. The report job runs on all dates specified by that pattern.
You can specify the following options:
Enter the number of days (for example, every 2 days or every 15 days) between runs of the report.
Select the number of weeks between each run and then select the days of each week. For example, suppose that you specify the report job to recur every two weeks and then click Monday and Friday. The report would run every Monday and Friday every two weeks.
Select a specific date of the month for the report to run. For example, if you select 15, the report runs on the fifteenth of each month.
Select specific dates throughout a month or a year for the report to run. For example, you can specify that the report run specifically on September 12, 2007 and January 18, 2008.
Click the calendar icon next to the Selected Date box to display a calendar, select a date to start the maintenance window, and then click Add to add it to the Specific Dates box. You can continue adding specific dates in this manner.
If you need to delete a particular date, highlight the date in the Specific Dates box and then click Remove. You can select multiple dates by holding down the Shift key and clicking on the desired dates.
For some report types, the job creation wizard requires you to select the cluster objects (which include attributes) from which the report retrieves data. To facilitate your selection, the wizard offers a control called a chooser. A chooser looks like two boxes with large left- and right-arrow buttons between them. The boxes contain expandable trees of cluster objects that work like the navigation tree in the Cluster Management Console.
Click the + (plus) sign next to an object to expand it into the lower-level objects that it contains. Select an object by checking the check box next to it. Checking an object with a + sign selects all objects that are within the checked object.
You do not have to decide which objects can be correctly or justifiably selected for the report. The wizard displays only those objects that are appropriate and relevant for the selected report type.
To deselect an object, check the checkbox next to it in the Selected Objects box and then click the left-arrow button to move it back under Available Objects.
After you understand how to specify target objects and scheduling information, you are ready to create the report job. The following task is general and is meant to accommodate the many types of reports that you can create. If you encounter an unfamiliar option, refer to the report job scheduling and target object information.
See Report job scheduling options.
See How to use the report target object chooser.
See About reporting for a description of each report type.
If you want to include bundled agents in the agent inventory report, click Display Bundled Agents.
Check the Limit number of runs for this report to check box, enter the maximum number of outputs into the Limit to box, and then click Next. You may enter numbers in the range of one to 999.
To use the object chooser