Scheduling Automatic Reports

BMC TrueSight Operations Managerment - IBM DS6000, DS8000 Series Storage can automatically produce text reports about the monitored storage systems.

To schedule automatic reports

1.In the navigation pane of Central Monitoring Administration, click the Policies drawer and select a policy view.

2.Click Edit to display the Add/Edit Policy dialog box.

3.Select the policy that applies to the PATROL Agent for which you need to configure the scheduling of automatic reports, and click Edit.

4.Click the Monitor Configuration tab.

5.Click the Schedule button.

Scheduling automatic reports

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

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

▪Storage Units Activity: Reports on Read and Write Bytes for all the monitored subsystems

▪Fiber Ports Activity: Reports on ECKD, PPRC, and SCSI Read and Write Bytes and on Total Received and Sent Bytes for all monitored fiber ports

▪Ranks Activity: Reports on Read and Write Bytes for all monitored ranks.

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

8.Click Close to save your settings.

The 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 parameter value exceeds its retention period, it is automatically deleted from the parameter history file. Refer to BMC documentation for details.