When you run a report, you can export the captured data
to a comma-delimited file. Before you run a report, make sure the
data that is captured covers the time period that you want. For example,
if you want to restrict the length of the report to the past 24 hours,
specify the 24-hour period you are interested in. The amount of data
that is collected in the report is dependent on the time period that
you specify before you run the report and the schedule in which information
is collected that is defined in the Clusters view.
Tip:
If you are running the Dashboard
on a different system from the host that you are analyzing, Dashboard
synchronizes the time, regardless of time zones, for all of the Listeners
within a cluster. Specifying a collection interval helps to make the
task of analyzing data for an entire cluster easier because the times
that are reported are the same as the information that is produced
and collected during a specific interval. The interval setting that
is defined in the Clusters view is ignored by the Image Manager and
Process Engine Listeners. The Image Manager and Process Engine Listeners
intervals are determined by the polling schedule that is set in the
configuration file
perf_mon.script. You run a
report from the Reports view.
- From the Reports view, highlight
the report template that you want to use, and then click Run.
- From the tree view on the left, select the Listener from
which you want the report to be run. You can also use the check boxes
under the Options parameter to send more information to the report.
- On the right side, select the length of the report in hours
under Length in hours.
- Under To, select the end of the time period for which to
report the data. Use both the Length in hours and To fields
to restrict the length of the report to focus on a specific time period.
- Under Output To, specify the path
and output file name of the generated report. You can also click the
ellipsis button to specify a location. The format of the generated
report is a comma-separated value (CSV) file, so an extension of .csv
is recommended. If you do not specify an extension for the report
you are generating, a default .csv extension is used for the reports.
- To generate the report, click Run.
The report is created and the Run Report dialog
box is closed. If any errors occur, they are reported and the dialog
box remains on screen so you can fix the errors and try again.
You can open your finished report with software tools from
other vendors, such as a spreadsheet program. You can use the report
to further analyze the information and create charts of the data.