Hello, and welcome. In this video we are going to cover the different types of reports that
can be run using OpenManage Enterprise. To do this we'll need to go to 'Monitor'
and 'Rports', and this will bring us to the reports screen. OpenManage Enterprise has
a selection of built-in reports that provide certain types of data. This is common data that
we feel like customers will will want or need from the tool, so we provide these 23
different reports so that they can run the report
and/or email the report to themselves and pull the data from OpenManage Enterprise. To see to see the
properties of some of these alerts we could click on the alert, and then we could click on 'Run'
and it will run the report and provide the data.
There's a couple of different options, there's another option where we can run an email.
What this will do is run the report in the background and email it to
the email address that's provided. We could see what the report, how the report is built
and what the fields are that are selected for this report over here on the right hand side,
and then of course we can also build custom reports by clicking the create button.
So custom reports require names, and you can give it a description of what you want
this report to do, and then you click next, and this is where we have our report builder.
So we have multiple categories we can choose from, alerts, devices, groups, jobs and servers. These
categories are shared throughout OpenManage Enterprise in different locations. As well
there's device groups, so we have, we can select the different types of groups and
this will help us filter down or narrow down what we want to choose from in our report.
And then we also have the ability to create a filter. You'll notice this
filter is pretty common to most filters where, you know, you're going to pick your your type,
you'll you'll pick type and then you'll be given your your standard operators,
you know, greater than, less than, equal to, begins with and things of that nature.
And you can, you know, you can type in different things that apply to your environment. This field
here must apply to the environment in order for it to apply to the report. You can also add,
you can do an and/or as you create more filters, so this gives you the ability to, you know,
as a user or customer you have the ability to, you know, get pretty granular with this, with this
filter functionality. I'm going to click 'Cancel' out of that for now and show you the device
columns. The device columns are created by the device groups, and the devices that we chose above
you'll notice by default we have device name, device service tag, and device model clicked.
We can remove those if we don't want those in the report, and then we could add whatever filters we
want to add. For instance we could add, you know, Chassis DNS Name, Chassis Location,
Chassis Controller, you know, if we were wanting to build a report off of chassis data.
I don't have any chassis discovered in this environment so creating a report
on chassis data would not provide us anything useful in fact it will not
provide us anything at all. Why don't we go ahead and let's say let's run this report.
So i click 'Finish' and that creates the report. It was on the first screen,
test two, so if i click on this and i click 'Run'
We will see that no data is provided, and the reason no data is provided is because
there are no chassis in this environment to run reports against. So we need to be careful when
we're building reports and make sure that we're choosing categories that apply to our
environment. So for instance we'll go ahead and create another report with correct data.
Leave the description blank, and we'll leave all for devices, and then for instance we can choose
something that we have. Server Chassis, you know, Device Name, Device Service Tag, Device Model. So
these are all in the in the report by default, and of course we can remove those but
we'll go ahead and use Device Name, Service Tag, Model, and we'll go ahead and click on 'Finish'.
And it will create that report. Looks like that report will be on the second page.
Yes here it is. So if we click on 'Test' and then we click on 'Run'
it builds the report, and it gives me the information of the one device I had in my
environment that meets the criteria. So i have a Device Name, Device Service Tag and Device Model
presented here. I can download this report in one of four formats, and it will download it
to my local machine, or i can click email and I can send an email to whoever i would like to
as configured by my SNTP server that OpenManage Enterprise is using.
This concludes the reporting feature of OpenManage Enterprise. Thank you.