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Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise 3.9 User's Guide

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Creating reports

Prerequisites

NOTE
  • To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise, you must have necessary role-based user privileges and scope-based operational access to the devices. See Role and scope-based access control in OpenManage Enterprise.
  • The reports generated by device managers will only have data pertaining to the device groups which are in their scope.
  • Some tables contain device-type-specific data which will effectively lock the report to that device type. Mixing columns from multiple device specific tables of different types (for example servers and chassis) will result in an invalid report with no results.

About this task

While built-in reports have default definitions (filter criteria) for generating reports, you can customize the criteria to create your own definitions, and then generate customized reports. The fields or columns that you want to display in your report depends on the category you select. You can select only one category at a time. The arrangement of columns in a report can be altered by dragging and placing. Also:
  • Report names must be unique
  • Report definition must have at least one field and one category
  • For reports having Device and Alert as categories, device name or device group must be one of the mandatory fields

By default, Devices is selected as the category, and device name, device Service Tag, and device model columns are displayed in the working pane. If you select any other category while editing a report criteria, a message is displayed indicating that the default fields will be removed. Every category has predefined properties that can be used as column titles where the data is filtered by using the criteria you define. Example category types:
  • Jobs: Task name, task type, task status, and task internal.
  • Groups: Group status, group description, group membership type, group name, and group type.
  • Alerts: Alert status, alert severity, catalog name, alert type, alert sub-category, and device information.
  • Devices: Alert, alert catalog, chassis fan, device software, and so on. These criteria have further classification based on which data can be filtered and reports generated.

Table 1. The role-based access privileges for generating reports on OpenManage EnterpriseThis table lists the role-based privileges provided in OpenManage Enterprise for managing reports
User Role... Report tasks permitted...
Administrators and Device Managers Run, create, edit, copy, email, download, and export
Viewers Run, email, export, view, and download

Steps

  1. Click Reports > Create.
  2. In the Report Definition dialog box:
    1. Type the name and description of the new report to be defined.
    2. Click Next.
  3. In the Report Builder section:
    1. From the Category drop-down menu, select the report category.
      • If you select Device as the category, select the device group also.
      • If necessary, edit the filter criteria. See Select a query criteria.
    2. Under the Select Columns section, select the check boxes of the fields that must appear as the report columns.
      Selected field names are displayed in the Column Order section.
    3. You can customize the report by
      • Using the Sort by and Direction boxes.
      • Dragging the fields either up or down in the Column Order section.
  4. Click Finish.
    The report is generated and listed in the list of reports. You can export report for analytical purposes. See Export all or selected data. An audit log entry is made whenever you generate, edit, delete, or copy a report definition.

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