Documentation

Reporter

The Reporter feature allows you to create reports from any collected data. Creating reports can be automated.
Reports may be regularly sent to email recipients, generated manually or picked up from the server where they are saved.

LPAR2RRD
STOR2RRD

Reporting options

Supported platforms
You can create reports through all collected metrics by each platform.

IBM Power Systes
VMware
Nutanix
oVirt / RHV
Solaris
MS Windows / Hyper-V

Output format

CSV
PDF
graphs in png format
graphs in png zipped in one file

Time scheduling

Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Selected day in a year or a month

Target receiver

email address
group of email addresses
leave it on the filesystem (/home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd/reports/<user>/) for 60 days

Free edition restrictions

This feature has 2 restrictions for users using free edition:

You can configure only 1 report at a time (no restriction on the number of items in the report)
It can be initiated only from the front-end (UI), it does not allow to be scheduled to run automatically.

Users authorization follows their ACL restrictions. Each user has its own private reporter configuration.
You can see it on our free demo site.

Reporter examples

LPARs CPU weekly pdf

CPU POOLs weekly pdf

LPARs SAN monthly pdf

CPU POOLs daily CSV

VIOS all yearly png

Configuration

Create new report

Create report item

Save and Run

Manual run

Output

Reporter scripting

In case you want to issue report in your ouw scheduler (typically crontab), to use your time schedule with further scripting of already reported data then

Create report in the UI
Select “no recurrence” in “Recurrence rule” window in report properties
Use this manual to set up your own scheduling