Viewing Reports

An important aspect of all management tasks is that you can analyze the trend over time and evaluate the performance. The analysis is also useful in making calculated predictions and taking corrective actions as necessary.

Applications Manager generates reports that help you to analyze the performance of your Monitor Group. The reporting function enables you to analyze your servers / applications / services even across months and all this even without having to make any additional configuration changes.

To view the reports, you can follow either of the given steps:

• Click the Reports module tab. This opens the index page that lists all the reports generated by Applications Manager (or)

• Click on the Monitor Group and select Application Report Link in the left frame. By default, it takes you to the Availability report of the Monitor Group.

Note: The graph for the attribute reports will be depicted for top 10 monitors

The report depicts the availability, health, response time and alerts of the application over a specified period of time. Some additional features in Report Generation are:

• Options to view 10/20/50/All reports by choosing them from the Top N Reports field. By default, it shows top 10 reports.

• Option to view the following reports for all individual monitors

• Downtime History Reports: Gives the downtime/uptime chart for 'today''s period and also the downtime history for that particular monitor across all time periods.

• Summary Reports: Gives the summary of all the reports for that particular monitor.

• Comparison Reports: You can compare the attribute reports of various monitors. For eg., to compare the response time between monitors, click on Response Time of All Monitors attribute link; from the list, select the monitors for which you need comparison. You can also select the time period for which the comparision is required. Currently, availability and health comparison reports are not supported.

• The Reports page contains a list of reports generated using Applications Manager by grouping them with respect to Monitor Groups and Monitor Type. To know more details, refer to the Grouping of Reports section.

• Option to view report on last seven days data by clicking on 7 Icon. It also opens up to a page where we can get thirty days data by clicking on 30 Icon

• Option to view Custom Time Period reports for Availability and Attributes, i.e, the time period for which the reports are needed can be selected. Additionally, you have the option to set the Business Hours during which you want the reports. In Admin tab, click on Business Hours icon, Select the time settings and save that as Business Hours.

• Option to view Reports for Custom Attributes. Click on Custom Attribute reports icon under Admin tab. Select the Monitor - the attributes would be listed. You can now choose the attributes for which you require the reports. Now these attributes would be added in the list - under reports tab. You can select the attribute and view the report.

• Option to save the reports in CSV format by clicking on icon , PDF format by clicking on icon and also save in Excel format (available only for Monitor Group - Availability & Health Snapshot - Current Snapshot, Critical Snapshot, History report, Outage Comparison Report, Availability Trend Report) for each individual report under reports tab. And also, to get the report then and there, click on icon

• Option to delete known Down Time reports.