Getting started with Common reporting

This information explains how users of Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager wireless component can get started with Tivoli Common Reporting for Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager. You are guided through the basic reporting tasks, with particular emphasis on techniques that are unique to Performance Management.

Tivoli Common Reporting is based on IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, an enterprise reporting solution. It delivers a subset of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence function as a common reporting platform or across the Tivoli portfolio. By using Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager - Application Studio you can extend the domain-specific reporting capabilities of technology packs to Common Reporting by deploying Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager common pack data model on your system.

For best practices in creating reports by using Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager - Application Studio, see https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Netcool%20Performance%20Manager/page/Application%20Studio%201.4%20(Wireless%20Modelling)%20-%20Common%20Reporting.