Scheduling Automatic Reports

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TrueSight Operations Management - Dell Compellent Storage Monitoring can automatically produce text reports that provide detailed and valuable information about your monitored storage systems.

To schedule automatic reports

1.Create a new policy or edit an existing policy.

2.Click Add Monitoring Configuration and scroll down to the Reporting section.

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Scheduling Automatic Reports

3.In the Schedule section, indicate the time at which the report(s) must be generated.

4.Check the Activity report type to automatically generate the following reports:

Storage Centers Activity: Reports on front-end read/front-end write bytes traffic and back-end read/back-end write bytes traffic for all monitored storage centers

Controllers Activity: Reports on Transfer Bytes for all monitored controllers

Disk Folders Activity: Reports on Read and Write Bytes for all monitored disk folders

Disks Activity: Reports on Read and Write Bytes for all monitored disks

Ports Activity: Reports on Transfer Bytes for all monitored ports

Volumes Activity: Reports on Read and Write Bytes for all monitored volumes

5.Check LUNs Mapping Table to automatically generate a text report of the LUNs-to-hosts mapping table. The .csv file generated for this report consists in the following comma-separated data: Storage Center, Hostname, Host, WWN/IQN, LUN, FC Ports, Size and Status.

6.Click OK to save your settings.

The generated file(s) are time-stamped and stored in %PATROL_HOME%\log as csv files for the specific time set through the History Retention Period attribute.

importantUpdating a policy that set the scheduling options of a report purges the report configuration variables and stops the report process.

noteThe history retention period can be set from the PATROL Console or from the PATROL Agent using a configuration variable. The default collection (retention) period is one day. Whenever a stored attribute value exceeds its retention period, it is automatically deleted from the attribute history file. Refer to BMC documentation for details.