With reports, you can view the performance of your virtualized
environment. You can view statistics on availability, response time,
traffic, throughput.
Before you begin
- Your servers, clusters, and applications 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 . 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.
You can view reports which display live data,
or you can use charts displaying historic data logged over a period
of days, weeks, months, years. In order to use historic charting,
configure and enable the visualization data service. For more information,
read about configuring the visualization data service. For historic
charting, use the sliding bar to adjust the percentage of time to
view. You can focus on a specific time interval and include more data
in the chart.
Avoid trouble: To observe historic data
over a long period of time, increase the maximum heap size of the
deployment manager. The default maximum heap size is 256 MB. To increase
the performance, and to prevent heap dumps, go to and set the maximum heap size to a higher value, for
example 2048 MB.
Procedure
- Open the Reports tab.
In
the administrative console, you can access the
Reports tab
from:
Restriction: The Reports tab
is not available for on demand router (ODR) servers.
.
- Act on operational alerts.
Operational alerts
display the status of resources in your environment. The name of the
specific resource is highlighted. 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, the preference change does not apply
to existing charts. To change the preferences for an existing chart,
click Preferences on the chart.
- Add a 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 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 to display, or to limit
what cell information is displayed.